The Hanukkah anthology / edited by Philip Goodman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goodman, Philip, 1911-2016, editor.

Series:

JPS holiday anthologies.

JPS holiday anthologies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hanukkah.

Hanukkah--Literary collections.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxvii, 465 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : The Jewish Publication Society, 2018.

Summary:

Back by popular demand, the classic JPS holiday anthologies remain essential and relevant in our digital age. Unequaled in-depth compilations of classic and contemporary writings, they have long guided rabbis, cantors, educators, and other readers seeking the origins, meanings, and varied celebrations of the Jewish festivals. The Hanukkah Anthology delves into the stories and messages of Hanukkah as they have unfolded in Jewish literature over the past two thousand years: biblical intimations of the festival, postbiblical writings, selections from the Talmud and midrashim, excerpts from medieval books, home liturgies, laws and customs, observances in different nations, stories and poems, art, and recipes. This timeless volume features many works by prominent authors, including Herman Wouk, Judah L. Magnes, Chaim Potok, Heinrich Heine, Emma Lazarus, Howard Fast, Sholom Aleichem, Curt Leviant, I. L. Peretz, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A Note from the Publisher

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Hanukkah and Its History by Solomon Grayzel

2 Hanukkah in the Bible

A Vision of the Maccabean Revolt

A Song for the Dedication of the Temple

3 Hanukkah in Postbiblical Writings

Hellenism in Judea from 2 Maccabees

The Persecutions of Antiochus from 1 Maccabees

The Revolt of Mattathias from 1 Maccabees

Judah the Maccabee Becomes the Leader from 1 Maccabees

Victories of the Maccabees from 1 Maccabees

The Dedication of the Sanctuary from 1 Maccabees

Festival of Lights by Flavins Josephus from 2 Maccabees from Megillat Taanit

The Martyrdom of Eleazar from 2 Maccabees

The Seven Brothers and Their Mother from 2 Maccabees

The Story of Judith from Judith

4 Hanukkah in Talmud and Midrash

The Woman and Her Seven Sons

The Reason for Hanukkah

Kindling the Lights

Thanksgiving and Hallel

Fasting Prohibited

The Hanukkah Lights Will Shine Forever

The Seven Hanukkahs

5 The Medieval Scroll of the Hasmoneans

The Scroll of the Hasmoneans

6 Hanukkah in Jewish Law

Laws Relating to Hallel by Moses Maimonides

Laws Governing the Hanukkah Lamps by Moses Maimonides

Laws Concerning Hanukkah by Solomon Ganzfried

7 Hanukkah in Modem Prose

Eight Golden Hanukkah Lights by A. Alan Steinbach

The Immortality of Israel by Leo Jung

The Meaning of Hanukkah by Theodor Herzl Gaster

A Single Spark by Samson Raphael Hirsch

The Miracle of Hanukkah by Judah L. Magnes

The Hebraic and the Hellenic Views of Life by Abram Leon Sachar

Judaism and Hellenism by Yehezkel Kaufmann

Warriors in a Holy Cause by Morris Joseph

The Martyred Mother by Grace Aguilar

Theodor Herzl's "The Menorah" by Alex Bein.

Hanukkah and the Redemption of the Land by Joseph G. Klausner

The National Significance of the Maccabean Legacy by Solomon Rappaport

Hanukkah and the Rebirth of Israel by Yaacov Herzog

The Hanukkah Menorah by Daniel Persky

Hanukkah Today by Herman Wouk

The Menorah or the Tree? by Roland B. Gittelsohn

The Challenge of December by Emanuel Rackman

8 Hanukkah in Art by Joseph Gutmann

9 A Hanukkah Drama

Judah Maccabeus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

10 Hanukkah in Many Lands

The Graves of the Maccabees by David Shimonowitz

Hanukkah among Eastern Jews by Devora and Menahem Hacohen

Hanukkah Customs among Sephardic Jews by Solomon Feffer

Lights in the Frankfort Judengasse by Heinrich Heine

Hanukkah Festival in London's Whitechapel by A. B. Levy

Hanukkah in a Lithuanian Ghetto by A. S. Sachs

The Festival of the Maccabees in Svislovitz by Shmarya Levin

Kindling the Lights in Vitebsk, Russia by Bella Chagall

Hanukkah in a Nineteenth-Century American Home by Esther J. Ruskay

With American Soldiers in World War II by Zelda Popkin

Miracles for a Broken Planet by Chaim Potok

Hanukkah in a Monastery by Isaac Neuman

Hanukkah Celebration in the Warsaw Ghetto by Chaim A. Kaplan

Hanukkah 1942 in the Vilna Ghetto by Herman Kruk

Hanukkah in Nazi-Occupied Belgium by Moshe Flinker

Lights Are Kindled in Bergen-Belsen by Philip R. Alstat

A Hanukkah Candle in Auschwitz by Moshe Prager

Hanukkah in the Soviet Union by Joshua Rothenberg

A Hanukkah Party in Riga by Alla Rusinek

An Israeli Boy in Moscow by Arie L. Eliav

With Sephardic Children and Teachers in Jerusalem by Joseph J. Rivlin

Jerusalem Candles by Menas he

Hanukkah in Israel by Jacob Kabakoff

11 Hanukkah in Poetry

Table Hymn for the Sabbath of Hanukkah by Abraham.

Shabbat and Hanukkah Dispute before Me by Solomon Ben Elijah "Golden Scepter''

The Banner of the Jew by Emma Lazarus

The Feast of Lights by Emma Lazarus

An Interpretation of Hanukkah by Ruth F. Brin

In Darkness Candles by Michael I. Hecht

The Festival of Hanukkah by Ruby Fogel Levkoff

The Eternal Light by Moshe Davis and Victor Ratner

Meditation on Hanukkah by Charles Rezmkoff

A Night in Hanukkah by Saul Tckemichovsky

To Soviet Jewry: A Hanukkah Invocation by Chaim Lewis

Mattathias by Abraham M. Klein

Candle Lights by Abraham M. Klein

12 Hanukkah in the Short Story

The Battle of Modin by Howard Fast

His Pride Was Too Much by Howard Fast

The Last Hour by David Frishman

The Living Menorah by Avigdor Hameiri

Hanukkah Money by Sholom Aleichem

The Little Hanukkah Lamp by Isaac Loeb Peretz

The Extra Flame by Curt Leviant

13 Hanukkah Oddities by Sidney B. Hoenig

The Dreidel

The Dreidel and the Grogger

Hanukkah Gelt

Cardplaying

Biblical Allusions

Acrostics

Riddles

14 Hanukkah Sidelights

The Festival Names

Judah's Surname

A Glaring Omission

The Eight-Day Miracle by Eliyahu Kitov

Candlelighting in Daytime

Electric Substitutes for Hanukkah Lights by J. David Bleich

The Most Popular Ritual

Hanukkah Greetings in the Venice Ghetto

Hanukkah among Reform Jews

Marranism and Hanukkah

The Maccabees in Christianity

Zot Hanukkah

Hanukkah and Sukkot

General Allenby's Entry into Jerusalem

Handel's Oratorio "Judah Maccabeus"

15 The Hanukkah Cuisine

Recipes for Hanukkah by Hanna Goodman

GEBRATENE GANS (Roast Goose)

DUCK A L'ORANGE

MASHED POTATO KUGEL

PLAIN NOODLE KUGEL

FRUIT LATKES

SUFGANIOT(Israeli Latkes)

COTTAGE CHEESE PANCAKES

POTATO PANCAKES

MENORAH SALAD

16 Children's Stories for Hanukkah.

The Dolls' Hanukkah by Sadie Rose Weilerstein

Hanukkah in Old Venice by Lillian S. Abramson

The Old Dreidel by Morris Epstein

Bee-utiful Candles by Leonard Jaffe

The Magic Top by Judah Steinberg

The Story of Hanukkah by Deborah Pessin

The Great Hanukkah Strike by Bami

One Hanukkah in Helm by Yaacov Luria

The Pan of Oil by Chaver Paver

Reuben Lights a Torch by Sol Klein

Seven Sacrifices by Joseph Gaer

A Syrian Diary by Joseph Halpem A

Dreidel for Tuvi by Morris Epstein

Five author unknown

A Menorah in Tel Aviv by Ya'akov

17 Children's Poems for Hanukkah

Blessings for Hanukkah by Jessie E. Sampler

Eight Little Candles by Jessie E. Sampter

My Trendle by Sadie Rose Weilerstein

What's in My Pocket by Sadie Rose Weilerstein

For Hanukkah by Hayyim Nahman Bialik

My Dreidel by Hayyim Nahman Bialik

Eight Are the Lights by Ilo Orleans

The Miracle by Philip M. Raskin

Hanukkah Lights by Philip M. Raskin

Judah Maccabeus to His Soldiers by Elma Ehrlich Levinger

The Tale of Hanukkah Retold by This Gay Minstrel's Pen of Gold by Abraham Bur stein

Hanukkah Candles Zalman Shneour

A Hanukkah Top by Nahum D. Karpivner

It Happened on Hanukkah by Natan Alterman

18 Home Service for Hanukkah

The Blessings on Kindling the Lights

"Hanerot Hallalu"

"Maoz Tzur"

Al ha-Nissim

19 Hanukkah Programs and Activities

Hanukkah Institute

Study Sessions

Lecture and Discussion Themes

Candlelighting Ceremony

Latke Party

Musical Events

Dramatics

Special Publications

Services for the Ill and Aged

Photography

Exhibits

Festival Book and Gift Shop

Torch Relay

Maccabean Liberation Celebration

Games

Arts and Crafts

20 Dances for Hanukkah

Oy Hanukkah, Oy Hanukkah: Circle Dance by Sara Levi.

Oy Hanukkah, Oy Hanukkah: Couple Dance by Dvora Lapson

Maoz Tzur: Hanukkah Candles Processional by Dvora Lapson

My Dreidel: Spinning Top Game by Dvora Lapson

Mi Yemalel?: Victory Dance by Dvora Lapson

21 Music for Hanukkah Compiled, and edited by Paul Kavon

Blessings on Kindling the Hanukkah Lights

Hanerot Hallalu

Maoz Tzur: Rock of Ages

AI ha-Nissim

Mi Yemalel? Who Can Retell?

Hanukkah

Oy Hanukkah, Oy Hanukkah: O Hanukkah, O Hanukkah: Ha-Erev Hanukkah

Oy Ir Kleine Likhtelekh

My Dreidel

Hear the Voice of Israel's Elders

Kindle the Taper

See, the Conqu'ring Hero Comes

NOTES

GLOSSARY OF HANUKKAH TERMS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

General References

Hanukkah and Its History

Postbiblical Writings

Jewish Law

Hanukkah in Art

Hanukkah in the Novel and Short Story

Children's Stories and Descriptions of Hanukkah

Activity Books and Related Materials

Dramatizations

Films

Filmstrips

Dances

Music

Recordings

Tape

Back Cover.

Notes:

"A JPS classic"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 440-465).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8276-1392-X