Ever since he was a child, Israeli writer Etgar Keret has always found it hard not to sympathize with the Egyptians in the telling of the Passover story. “Sometimes when you read a story you hate the bad guy more and more,” Keret explained. “But here, you know, from very early on, [the Egyptians] just suffer and suffer and suffer and suffer. And then, they drown.” Keret first explored these sympathies in this short story from his collection The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God (St. Martin’s Press, 2001)

thought I’d put this Passover story here.

Plague of the First Born: A Short Story for Passover by Etgar Keret