The Haggadah: A Never-Ending Conversation

"It's a wonderful conversation to have, a never-ending conversation," Foer says of the Passover story. (In an AP interview).

Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander have collaborated on a new version of the Passover Haggadah-- The New American Haggadah (2012). In the days running up to Passover, the book has become a bestseller.

The haggadah features running commentaries by novelist, philosopher and atheist Rebecca Goldstein, who visited the Writers Institute in March 2010, and children's author Lemony Snicket, among others.

Englander was a guest of the Institute early in his career in March of 2000. Foer never officially visited the Institute, but he waited around in Albany "wearing" his infant son in a baby carrier while his wife, Nicole Krauss, participated in our series in May 2006 (she also visited more recently in September 2011).