A Different Night compact edition

by Noam Zion, David Dishon

A slimmed-down version of A Different Night . Retains the full traditional text and many of the favorite pieces of art and commentary, including Four Children and Storytelling. Not as much commentary -- but it won't knock over so many wine glasses either!

92 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2002

About the author

Noam Sachs Zion was born to American parents fighting in the Hagana in Jerusalem in 1948. He grew up in an egalitarian Conservative rabbi's home in Minneapolis and studied general philosophy at Columbia in the late sixties. He was a member of the New York Havurah and was sent by the Israeli consulate to the USSR in 1968 to make contact with Soviet Jews (where after two months the KGB accused him of spying and expelled him). During the Yom Kippur War he made aliyah and then taught for Young Judea, WUJS, Habonim, HUC and Pardes.
Since 1978 he has studied and taught at the pluralist Shalom Hartman Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies, headed by Rabbis David and Donniel Hartman. He has served as coordinator of the Russian Scholars program, of the Teacher Inservice Training Program, of the TICHON educator center for North American Jewish day school faculty and the Christian Leadership Institute of AJC-Hartman for senior theologians. He teaches in the rabbis' enrichment programs and the Beeri educators' program

Reviews

[Sylvia J. · Rating 3 out of 5]

After reading this haggadah two nights during two seders, I went back and read the parts we skipped. It’s a good haggadah and I love the different depictions of the four children. However I wish Hallel and other parts were translated and/or transliteratesd. Maybe the full size version is better in that respect. I read the PDF, which is the same as this modified one.
Also the concept of having to work for a living as a form of slavery is really stretching it.

[Eric · Rating 3 out of 5]

Used this at a Seder. It is very accessible and I liked the various depictions of the four children. Not a lot of meat on the bone though. A solid three star Haggadah.