One for Each Night: The Greatest Chanukah Stories of All Time

Texts by Sholom Aleichem, Nobel laureates S. Y. Agnon and Elie Wiesel, I. L. Peretz, Emma Lazarus, Theodor Herzl, Chaim Potok, Mark Strand, A. B. Yehoshua, Emma Green, Joanna Rakoff, and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein   
     
“In a rich collection of essays by the most important Jewish voices of our time, Chanukah comes alive with humor and heart.”—New York Family

“The pieces are uniformly excellent, not surprising given the reputations of the authors.”—The Jewish Standard

“The stories collected here are often moving, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but all in some way evoke the spirit of the holiday. It is a perfect addition to any Jewish library.”—Hadassah Magazine

This rich medley of stories, poems, and essays features evocations of Chanukah by classic and contemporary authors including Sholom Aleichem, Nobel laureates S. Y. Agnon and Elie Wiesel, I. L. Peretz, Emma Lazarus, Theodor Herzl, Chaim Potok, Mark Strand, A. B. Yehoshua, Emma Green, Joanna Rakoff, and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. There are humorous as well as meditative tales from Israel, Central Europe, and the United States—works that capture the Festival of Lights as observed on Manhattan’s Upper West Side alongside accounts of celebrations in shtetls of the Old Country and far reaches of the Diaspora including Africa. The writings underscore what it means to be Jewish in a world that’s not always welcoming and include intriguing commentary about Chanukah’s origins and what it means now.

Hardcover
140 pages
New Vessel Press, 2023
6.93 x 10.08 inches
ISBN 9781954404229
Holiday Fiction, Children's Book