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Mendele Mokher Seforim's “What is Chanukah?”
Mendele Mokher Seforim's “What is Chanukah?”
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Length:
12 minutes
Released:
Dec 5, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Tonight is the fourth night of Hanukkah, and to celebrate, Marcela reads an abridgement from Mendele Mokher Serforim’s short story, “What is Chanukah?” It features two speakers, Shmuel, for whom a Hanukkah miracle occurred, and his friend Ignatz. Text: Mendele Mokher Serforim, “What is Chanukah?” translated by Herbert J. Levine and Reena Spicehandler in Jewish Fiction Yitzi Hurwitz, “To Make the Darkness Itself Shine” Music: Maoz Tzur by Yosef Karduner Al Hanissim by Yonina
Released:
Dec 5, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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