New American Haggadah

by Jonathan Safran Foer

Other authorsNathan Englander (Translator)
Hardcover, 2012

Status

Available

Call number

H PS 296.45 FOE

Publication

Little, Brown and Company (2012), Edition: Bilingual, Hardcover, 160 pages

Description

Offers a new translation of the text of prayer and song used by Jewish familes each year to celebrate Passover and the story of Exodus, augmented by commentary by a number of modern-day thinkers, including Michael Pollan, Tony Kushner, and Judith Shulevitz.

Barcode

1994

Language

User reviews

LibraryThing member puritanreformed
Translation is loose at places, and too literal at others (e.g. "Lord God-of-us" instead of "the Lord our God"). It's also amazing how God's Word can be cited, and yet the commentary contradicts the cited Scripture

ISBN

0316069868 / 9780316069861
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