Während des Pessach-Festes werden die Texte der Haggadah im familiären Kreis gelesen. Jonathan Safran Foer nimmt sich dieser historischen Texte an, um sie einem neuen Publikum zugänglich zu machen oder wie er selbst in einem Interview sagte: 'the challenge isn't to say anything new, but to say the same things better, more clearly...'
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Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Eating Animals and Here I Am. He has also edited a new modern edition of the sacred Jewish Haggadah. Everything Is Illuminated won several literary prizes, including the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book Award. He edited the anthology A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell, and his stories have been published in the Paris Review, Conjunctions and the New Yorker. Jonathan Safran Foer teaches Creative Writing at New York University.
