{"product_id":"we-carry-the-light-hanukkah-stories-from-across-the-jewish-world","title":"We Carry the Light: Hanukkah Stories from Across the Jewish World","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"B0HLW9KC25\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\"\u003e\n  \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n   \u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe Hanukkah Your Kid Will Never Forget\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n   \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTen stories. Ten kids their own age. And in each one, something older than any of them slips into a single night of Hanukkah: a golem that will not stop copying you, a stranger at the door who is more than a stranger, a dreidel that spins far too long.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n   \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThis is the real Hanukkah, not Jewish Christmas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Not a minor holiday inflated to go candle for candle with a Christmas tree. Courage and mischief instead of gift wrap. Olive oil and growing light instead of greeting-card sparkle. And one quiet truth a kid will carry for years: that holding on to who you are is the bravest thing a person can do, and it has always cost something.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n   \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWritten for readers ages 9 to 13\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e who have outgrown picture books, in stories so alive they get read once and then pressed straight into a friend's hands.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n   \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSet across the real Jewish world, from Beverly Hills to Brooklyn to a Moroccan kitchen gold with frying sfenj, these ten stories follow ordinary kids through very ordinary problems: a party on the same night as the family lighting, a grandmother who sings too loud in a language no one at school understands, a great-grandfather who is suddenly afraid to put the lamp in the window. Then someone they did not expect quietly arrives. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n   \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA few of the ten:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n   \u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\"\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe Golem of East 21st Street:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e a girl who skips her family's lighting and the mute clay giant that follows her to school, doing exactly what she does, until her own bluffing becomes slapstick she cannot outrun.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWhat the Sfenj Knows:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e the only kid who brings Moroccan sfenj instead of jelly doughnuts, and the sharp widow Judith, who has no patience for anyone embarrassed of where they come from.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe Window:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e a survivor who will no longer put the hanukkiah where the street can see it, a grandson who does not understand the fear, and a visitor of old grief that says what no one else will.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOcho Kandelikas, Loud:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e fog off the Seattle water, a Ladino song sung far too loudly in public, and the quiet magic of the evil eye showing a girl what she almost threw away.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe Eighth Lamp:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e an Ethiopian Jewish girl in Israel meeting Hanukkah for the first time, because her community never kept it, learning what it means to be handed a light and asked to carry it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n   \u003c\/ul\u003e\n   \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\n     \u003cbr\u003e\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe real Hanukkah, from every corner of the Jewish world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n   \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNo blue-and-silver sameness, no latke standing in for every Jewish family on earth. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWe Carry the Light\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is rooted in specific living communities and their true traditions: Persian families in Tehrangeles who keep the lamp away from the window out of old habit, Ladino-speaking Seattle, Bukharian Queens, Syrian Brooklyn, Soviet-émigré Brighton Beach rediscovering a holiday three generations were forbidden, Cuban-Sephardic Miami frying bimuelos beside the radio.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n   \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePerfect for:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n   \u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\"\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMiddle-grade readers ages 9 to 13 who have outgrown picture books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJewish families, Sephardic, Mizrahi, Persian, Ashkenazi and more, who are tired of only ever seeing one kind of Hanukkah and want their own on the page\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFamilies of every background who want a true, living window into a neighbor's or classmate's holiday, not a tourist pamphlet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHebrew school teachers, synagogue librarians, and classrooms exploring the real diversity of the Jewish world with depth and respect\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA gift for a kid caught between fitting in and holding on\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe eight nights of Hanukkah, and Jewish gift-giving all year round\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n   \u003c\/ul\u003e\n   \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\n     \u003cbr\u003eThe magic is real, and often very funny. The courage is real, and never preached. It is the rare holiday book a child races through and remembers for years, and the rare Hanukkah book in which every family finally gets to see itself.\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n   \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eGive them eight nights of it, and give them the oldest Hanukkah lesson there is: we carry the light ourselves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003c\/div\u003e\n \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dandelion Roots","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68401130537211,"sku":"B0HLW9KC25","price":14.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0814\/4538\/8539\/files\/71cQDOiYBdL._SL1499.jpg?v=1793093464","url":"https:\/\/dandelionrootsshop.com\/products\/we-carry-the-light-hanukkah-stories-from-across-the-jewish-world","provider":"Dandelion Roots","version":"1.0","type":"link"}