New American Haggadah

New American Haggadah (Little, Brown and Company)

Author Jill Soloway (Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants) presents a discussion with Eileen Levinson and Caroline Libresco on New American Haggadah, a new translation by Nathan Englander of the story of Exodus, with additional essays and commentaries edited by Jonathan Safron Foer.

Jill Soloway is a writer/director and community organizer. She recently cofounded East Side Jews, a network of Jewish artists, writers and thinkers living on the East Side of LA aiming to reinvent Jewish culture, community and ritual. Her short film, Una Hora Por Favora, premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, and she is currently in pre-production on her first feature, Afternoon Delight. Jill wrote/produced Six Feet Under for four years and was showrunner for How to Make It In America and United States of Tara.

Caroline Libresco has been Senior Programmer for the Sundance Film Festival since 2001 and holds an M.A. in History of Religion from Harvard. She serves on the leadership teams for Sundance’s Creative Producing Initiative and Women’s Initiative. She produced the award-winning documentary, Sunset Story; the Academy Award-winning featurette, Barrier Device; associate-produced the HBO documentary Cat Dancers; and was developing producer on The Grace Lee Project.

Eileen Levinson is a designer and artist living in Los Angeles. Her practice encourages collaborative rethinking of Jewish ritual and tradition. Eileen is also the creator of Haggadot.com, a website for Jews of any background to upload, exchange and personalize an original Haggadot for Passover. The site hosts over one thousand selections of user-generated haggadah content from around the world. In 2011, Jewish Daily Forward reviewed the site as "the most exciting new Haggadah" of the year.