Mendele Mokher Seforim's “What is Chanukah?”
Dec 05, 2018•12 min
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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”
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