Creator Bio
Susannah Heschel
b. 1956
Raised in New York City, Suzannah Heschel holds the Eli Black Chair in Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship addresses Jewish–Christian relations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany, and she is the recipient of the 1998 National Jewish Book Award. She has also edited the essays of her father, philosopher Abraham Joshua Heschel.
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The Definitive Orange on the Seder Plate Story
The creator of the popular ritual of placing an orange on the Seder plate describes exactly how this innovation arose, its intended significance, and the problematic erasure of its origins.