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dies were orange and the little
chanukia was made of yellow
metal and each night you had to
scrape the orange wax from the
base so that the next night we
could put in new candles, one
more, and we could all sing
"Ma-oz tzar" or maybe 'Me
yMaler, or if you visited in my
wife's home when she was a little
red-haired youngster, the song
was "Oy Chanuka, oy Chanuka, a
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But no musical menora —
just our voices — all in a differ-
ent key. And there were no suf-
ganiot, no doughnuts, with or
without cholesterol (maybe there
was no cholesterol! How could
there be when on the first night
of Chanuka there were latkes
and latkes and more latkes
swimming in oil.)
And there were no ceramic
dreidels, or porcelain dreidels
Leo Lieberman: His mother taught him that if
or dreidels so beautiful that the
you want to live to a ripee old age, "every day
artist signed his name. But what you must eat a clove o raw garlic and also
there was was a little wooden
have one good laugh."
dreidel with the letters Nun,
Gimel, Hay, Shin, and we could
saying, "I don't want to intermish,
spin it and gamble away our
but I know in my house, if you'll
Chanuka gelt, a batch of shiny pen-
pardon my telling you, it was sour
nies (no other gifts, just pennies)
cream.''
and if the dreidel spun well and
And so today, as we recite the
landed on the Gimel, wow, that
prayers, and light the candles, and
meant you won.
sing the songs and the grandchildren
The Shin was to be avoided because
all gather around tearing the gift wrap
then you had to pay a forfeit, which
from the boxes, I think that, if I close
was worse than the Nun, the neutral
my eyes and listen very carefully, today
letter, which indicated that you nei-
even as I wish all of you, my dear
ther won nor lost. Oh, yes, the Hay,
readers and friends, a happy Chanuka,
that was a half-win, not too bad. And
may all your candles burn bright and
in the midst of all these festivities
may your dreidels always land on the
came the Great Latke Debate.
Gimel, today with my eyes shut, I can
Mair.!q came from Russia when she
hear her saying, "Applesauce," and
was 3 and Papa came from Budapest
him answering, quietly but firmly,
when he was 5. She was a Litvak and
"Sour cream."
he a Galitziana, a mixed marriage, but
And although we serve applesauce
one that held together for a little more
with
our latkes, as our good rabbi would
than 50 years.
say, "Still, on the other hand ...
So she served latkes with apple
sauce and he thought that the tradi-
tion argued for sour cream as the
To order a copy of Memories of
accompaniment. And each Chanuka
Laughter and Garlic: Jewish Wit,
as Papa ate his latkes (and even asked
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for a second helping) with applesauce,
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I could hear him mutter under his
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And Mama gave him another
of $16.73) to:
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