Later this week, Jewish families all over the world will sit down at their

sater table and, guided by the text of the Hagada, recapitulate in a highly ornate and

ritualized way, the Israelite redemption from oppression in Egypt. The text of the

Haggadah itself is fascinating, not only because of its sources and composition and what

it emphasizes and how, but also because it references itself. There are discussions of previous

Seder's in the Seder. It's a document that structures a holiday, designed

in its very form, to help us remember. Memory and the presence of the past is the great theme

of the Hagadah, and it is the great theme of Dara Horn's new graphic novel, One Little

Goat. Welcome to the Tikva podcast. I'm your host, Jonathan Silver. This week,

my guest is the remarkable novelist, Dara Horn, author not only of One Little Goat,

but also of Eternal Life, a Guide for the Perplexed, three other novels, and a celebrated

volume of reporting in essays, People Love Dead Jews. As we explore in our conversation, this theme,

the inescapability of the past, the formative nature of the past, the obligations imposed on us

as memory-bearing creatures and as a memory-shaped people. This is a theme that is woven

throughout all of her work. Now she brings it into a work of visual

storytelling for middle-grade readers in One Little Goat. If you enjoy this conversation, you can

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my conversation with Dara Horn.

Darah Horn, welcome back to the Tikpa podcast. Thank you so much for having me.

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