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April 19, 2016

The Kid from the Haggadah

A poem.

Traditionally, the Passover seder concludes with the singing of Ḥad Gadya. The great Israeli poet and playwright Nathan Alterman made the titular animal, “a kid that Father bought for two zuz,” the subject of poem, newly translated into English by Dan Ben-Amos. It begins thus:

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