So we do not really care about what is inside of the New American Haggadah
by Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander and two other popular writers.
The watershed event of this Passover
season was the appearance of a Haggadah in the top 100 best sellers at
Amazon.com - today at # 39 and 34 days in the top 100. What the hey?
We had guests at the Seder who had the NAH but it turns out that they had no contributions to make to our table based on the contents.
Who cares if the NAH is quirky or a masterpiece? As a result of the NAH's popularity we do expect many other popular writers and celebrities to publish Haggadahs next year. That is a good thing for Jewish books, and so that is a perfectly good result, from our perspective.
We had guests at the Seder who had the NAH but it turns out that they had no contributions to make to our table based on the contents.
Who cares if the NAH is quirky or a masterpiece? As a result of the NAH's popularity we do expect many other popular writers and celebrities to publish Haggadahs next year. That is a good thing for Jewish books, and so that is a perfectly good result, from our perspective.
The Kindle Edition of the Classic Soncino Talmud in English
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