Hanukkah, Shmanukkah!

by Esme Raji Codell

Paper Book, 2005

Call number

J 247 Codell

Tags

child, chanukah

Subjects

Publication

New York : Hyperion Books for Children, 2005.

Description

In this spin on A Christmas carol, Old Scroogemacher is a tyrant to the poor workers in his waistcoat factory, even on the last night of Hanukkah. Visited by three rabbis, Scroogemacher travels from the time of the Maccabees to present day.

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LibraryThing member STBA
An adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol with protagonist old Scroogemacher visited by three ghostly rabbis who take him back in time to the Maccabbees, to present day tenements (early 20th century) and then on to the future. Will he get the message?
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LibraryThing member raizel
A retelling of Dicken's Christmas Carol in which Scrooge runs a sweat shop, his forward-thinking, union sympathetic nephew loves the daughter of the equivalent of Bob Cratchet, and Rabbis of Hanukkah Past, Present and Future (a woman) visit him to make him change his ways. Lots of Yiddish words
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 thrown in. The story of the Maccabees is inaccurate. The most interesting part of the book are the notes after the story.
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Awards

Sydney Taylor Book Award (Mass Import -- Pending Differentiation)

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Available

Call number

J 247 Codell

ISBN

0786851791 / 9780786851799

Barcode

30402098587092

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