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New 'Haggadah': A Sacred Text, And A Good Read

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April 1, 2012 Novelists Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander set out to bring literary quality to an ancient sacred text with New American Haggadah. Foer edited the volume, while Englander provided new translations from the original Hebrew and Aramaic.

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Nathan Englander: Assimilating Thoughts Into Stories

Nathan Englander grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family. He now splits his time between New York and Madison, Wis.

February 15, 2012 In What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, Nathan Englander writes about his own faith — and what it means to be Jewish — in stories that explore religious tension, Israeli-American relations and the Holocaust.

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'Anne Frank': Short Stories Fumbling For Perfection

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February 13, 2012 Is Jewish identity a metaphor, or is it found in local, lived experiences? Author Nathan Englander explores this question in his new collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank. NPR Books Editor Parul Sehgal calls it some of the strongest and strangest American short fiction in years.

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