The third story in the series is an acerbic, affecting reflection on family memories and the impulse to look for our “Roots” in the landscape of post-Holocaust Europe.

The second in the series, “Nehemia,” mischievously retells the Hasidic tale of the Baal Shem Tov and the boy who played flute on Yom Kippur, making a place for the cartoonist in a story Agnon included in his “Days of Awe.”