| Hanukkah Shmanukkah By Esme Raji Codell $16.99 "Shmendrick, pick up the pace or I'll give you such a zetz!", said Scroogemacher to the poor workers in his turn-of-the century waistcoat factory. Hanukkah was just another night to Scroogemacher. He even had the nerve to set the clocks back on the eighth night despite his workers' protests. But after some unexpected time travel with three ghostly rabbis ("I have come to schlep you to hotzeplotz", said the first rabbi), he begins to understand that some good can actually happen from a little remembering. This imaginative rewrite of Dickens' iconic story with a Yiddish spin, portrays historical struggles of both the ancient Maccabees and European immigrants as they strived to attain equality and freedom in an unwelcoming world. These struggles present modern readers with valuable lessons never to be forgotten. All ages. |
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