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Mendele Mokher Seforim's “What is Chanukah?”

Mendele Mokher Seforim's “What is Chanukah?”

FromIsrael in Translation


Mendele Mokher Seforim's “What is Chanukah?”

FromIsrael in Translation

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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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Exploring Israeli literature in English translation. Host Marcela Sulak takes you through Israel’s literary countryside, cityscapes, and psychological terrain, and the lives of the people who create it.