Mendele Mokher Seforim's What is Chanukah?

Published: Dec. 5, 2018, 10:29 a.m.

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Tonight is the fourth night of Hanukkah, and to celebrate, Marcela reads an abridgement from Mendele Mokher Serforim\\u2019s short story, \\u201cWhat is Chanukah?\\u201d It features two speakers, Shmuel, for whom a Hanukkah miracle occurred, and his friend Ignatz.

Text:

Mendele Mokher Serforim, \\u201cWhat is Chanukah?\\u201d translated by Herbert J. Levine and Reena Spicehandler in Jewish Fiction

Yitzi Hurwitz, \\u201cTo Make the Darkness Itself Shine\\u201d

Music:

Maoz Tzur by Yosef Karduner

Al Hanissim by Yonina

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