Hanukkah Lights 2008()
December 3, 2008 An NPR holiday tradition for nearly two decades, Hanukkah Lights presents brand new fiction to celebrate and illuminate the holiday season — moving tales of discovery and reconciliation, the persistence of hope and the promise of undimmed light — read by Susan Stamberg and Murray Horwitz.
Best of Hanukkah Lights: Eight Stories, Eight Nights()
November 27, 2007 For each of the eight nights of Hanukkah, we offer a hand-selected work of fiction from the long-running Hanukkah Lights series. Modern day writers kindle our imaginations with stories inspired by the oil that miraculously burned for eight days and nights.
Hanukkah Lights 2006()
December 18, 2006 In this year's ironic, wistful take on the festival of lights, a 90-year-old grandmother confronts Hanukkah hip-hop, and an elderly couple exchanges ironic presents in Gifts of the Jewish Magi. A new, evocative story by Amy Bloom fills out the holiday celebration.
Hanukkah Lights 2004()
December 6, 2004 A phone call to an IT support desk brings an unexpected and distant blessing to a lonely man in New York, and two benevolent cows bring a miracle to the people of a small village — in this year's celebration of Hanukkah storytelling.
Hanukkah Lights 2003()
November 26, 2003 NPR celebrates Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, with our latest edition of selected stories, commissioned by NPR, from writers Simone Zelitch, Daniel Mark Epstein, Peter Beagle, Rebecca Goldstein and Ariel Dorfman.
Hanukkah Lights 2002()
November 29, 2002 NPR's latest crop of fiction inspired by the Jewish festival of lights includes: a holiday quiz, a story about Hanukkah in Hollywood, and a wry, modern fable about a family gathering touched by big-city politics — yet still under the spell of the age-old holiday.
Hanukkah Lights 2001()
December 9, 2001 This year's Hanukkah stories describe children lighting the holiday candles for the first time after the Sept. 11 attacks, as well as a poignant memoir of a Spanish, Catholic household, and its unexpected gift to a young man exploring life in a world far from home.
