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All of the above, and they are all Woody Guthrie songs.
Guthrie’s second wife was Marjorie Mazia, daughter of reknowned Yiddish poet Aliza Greenblatt. According to Guthrie’s daughter Nora, “Jewish to us meant eating! Friday night Sabbath, home-cooked dinners at Bubbie’s, their nickname for grandma Greenblatt, with blintzes, latkes, sweet and sour meatballs, herring, matzoh… So we knew about the food, the holidays. We celebrated Hanukkah with the ‘Hanukkah fairy,’ which my parents made up. She went around with Santa delivering the presents. We would leave a large plate of cookies and milk for Santa, and a teeny-tiny little plate with a cookie for the Hanukkah fairy… and we had a Hanukkah Tree, aka, a Christmas tree.”
Click on the links below to experience Chanukkah through the music of the great Woody Guthrie, and while you’re at it, you can be reading RASHI, RAMBAM and CHANUKKAH-MADINGDONG: A Quizbook of Chanukkah Trivia Facts & Fun while you enjoy the music.
A. Hanukah Gelt, performed by The Klezmatics.
B. Hanukah Dance, performed by Woody Guthrie.
C. Hanukah Bell, performed by The Klezmatics.
D. Hanukah’s Flame, performed by Nefesh Mountain.
E. Honeyky Hanukah, performed by The Klezmatics.