Retelling the Story

Why is this text different from all other texts? The Haggadah recounts the story of the Jews’ exodus from Egypt and is read around the Passover table each year. There are over 4000 known versions in existence; however this one is set to become next year’s most wanted.

Edited by Jonathan Safran Foer and translated by Nathan Englander, this Haggadah is filled with essays and commentary from some of the brightest Jewish literary and intellectual voices including Rebecca Goldstein, Jeffrey Goldberg and Lemony Snicket, along with some stunning illustrations.

Listen to its editor Safran Foer and Jeffrey Goldberg -who wrote the commentary on "nation"- as they tell Maureen Kendler about their thinking behind the long labour of passion which brought some of the US most exciting writers together.

Jonathan Safran Foer is the prize-winning author of Everything is Illuminated – published in 2002 – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Eating Animals. He is currently a professor in the Graduate Creative Writing Programme at New York University.

Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting. Author of the book Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror.

Maureen Kendler is Head of Education at the London School of Jewish Studies. She has been involved with Limmud from the beginning and teaches here and internationally on Jewish texts, ancient and modern.