Hanukkah Lights: Stories of the Season - Hardcover

NPR

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1595910093 ISBN 13: 9781595910097

Publisher: Melcher Media, 2005

Synopsis

This Hanukkah marks the fifteenth season of Hanukkah Lights: Stories of the Season, one of NPR's most popular holiday programs. The show has built a large and loyal following of listeners of all ages and all walks of life. Each year, Hanukkah Lights attracts some of the finest contemporary writers, including best-selling authors such as Myra Goldberg and Anne Roiphe, whose stories are read by Susan Stamberg and Murray Horwitz, longtime hosts of the program. NPR's Hanukkah Lights: Ten Modern Tales gathers some of the best stories from the programs to create a contemporary look at the holiday. With a mixture of modern folklore, neotraditional tales, and truly contemporary voices, NPR's Hanukkah Lights explores the many facets of Jewish storytelling. A lonely man finds love over the phone when trying to amend a Hanukkah Internet shopping disaster. Faced with discrimination on stage at a holiday pageant, a young girl rebels against the ignorance of her teachers and hopes for a new attitude in the coming decades. And a retirement community discovers one evening that Hanukkah is not just about tradition, but is also about embracing future generations and ways of celebrating. A bonus audio CD produced by NPR includes four additional stories from the original broadcasts, read by Stamberg and Horwitz, allowing readers to listen to the tales in their car, kitchen, or living room. And NPR's Hanukkah Lights features beautiful original illustrations for each story and illustrative flourishes throughout, making the book the perfect gift for the holiday season. NPR's Hanukkah Lights gathers some of today's best Jewish storytellers, from Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel to MacArthur Award winner Rebecca Goldstein. Other authors include Ariel Dorfman, Daniel Mark Epstein, Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer, Lesléa Newman, Daniel Pinkwater, and Max Apple.

About this title

From AudioFile:

Christmas can often be an awkward and alienating time for American Jews. Hanukkah pales under the light of the Christmas tree to a point that many people refer to it as the "Jewish Christmas." Here is a collection of four stories and a poem that, rather than shyly avoiding the comparison, dives right into it. Elliott Gould, John Rubinstein, and Amanda Karr each read stories that capture the isolation, confusion, and irony surrounding the modern observance of Hanukkah, with perhaps the best performance being Melissa Manchester's reading of Grace Paley's "The Loudest Voice," about a little Jewish girl performing proudly in her school's Christmas pageant. Setting the tone, the audiobook opens with Theodore Bikel's wonderful reading of "Twas the Night Before Christmas" in Yiddish, which alone is worth the price of the tape! S.E.S. © AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Melcher Media
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1595910093
• ISBN 13: 9781595910097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128