Hershel gathers a few things and makes his way up the hill the villagers expect never to see him alive again. Then and only then will the spell be broken and proper celebrations return to the settlement. The last condition is that on the eighth night the goblin king himself must light the Hanukkah candles. If someone can stay in the synagogue all eight nights of Hanukkah and light the candles each night, the village will nearly be free. They have made the old synagogue their roost, and none dare challenge them. Instead, he finds that the place is tyrannized by goblins, who forbid most anything enjoyable and who hate Hanukkah most of all. And what’s not to like? Hershel of Ostropol wanders into an unnamed Central European village on the first night of Hanukkah expecting celebration and hospitality. Kid One first fell in love with this book as an elementary school student, a Protestant child living in an Orthodox country enjoying a very Jewish story.
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