Mendele Mokher Seforim's “What is Chanukah?”

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