Child's Hanukkah

Jewish Wedding Band, Music for Little People | Format: Audio Cassette

Product Details

• Audio Cassette (August 18, 1998)
• Label: Music Little People
• ASIN: B00000ADAD
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,351,820 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hey! It's Hanukkah

2. (Dialogue)

3. Blessing

4. (Dialogue)

5. I Have a Little Driedl

6. Variations on a Hanukkah Tune

7. Hanukkah at Home

8. Hanukkah Fraylach

9. The Hanukkah Hop

10. The Hanukkah Waltz

11. (Dialogue)

12. Hanukkah O Hanukkah

13. In the Darkest Days

14. Ochos Kandelikas

15. God Rest Ye, Jerry Mandelbaum

16. We've Got a Lotta Latkes

17. Dance of the Leftover Latkes

18. Sh'monat Y'May

19. In the Window

20. (Dialogue)

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Has the basic music with some patter explaining the holiday, January 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Child's Hanukkah (Audio CD)

Nice sounding renditions of the traditional holiday favorites. Some songs are in english and some in hebrew or yiddish. There is a bit of patter with brief hoiday explainations which would make this a good CD for non-jews but I found the patter annoying after a bit. My kids (4 and 9) enjoyed trying to mimic the accents. I liked Just In Time For Chanukah (Margie Rosenthal and Ilene Safyan) better.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A nice mix of new and old songs, January 4, 2005

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Rabbi Yonassan Gershom (Minnesota, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Child's Hanukkah (Audio CD)

What a mechayah! This CD is a great mix of old and new Hanukkah songs, in the form of a family home celebration that is not some tedious preachy trip. The kids joke around with each other, explain a lot of things to the adults, and vice versa, in normal conversation.

As for the songs, there's a nice rendition of the Dreydel song with FIVE VERSES (in English) that explain the meaning of each letter in the game. Plus you can learn to count to 8 in Ladio with "Ocho Candelitas." Other songs are in Hebrew and Yiddish, while their original new song, "Hanukkah at Home" is in English with an Israeli-sounding tune.

Among the other new songs are "In the Darkest Days," which tells how we light the candles in that long nights of the winter solstice, at the dark of the moon. Think about it -- Hanukkah begins on the 25th of Kislev, so Rosh Chodesh (New Moon) of the month of Tevet always falls in the middle of the holiday. Even if you live in the Southern Hemisphere (where it is summer at Hanukkah time) you still light the menorah at the dark of the moon. I'd never even thought about that until I heard this song. What a great insight!

Another winter song on this CD is "In The Window," which tells how Jews in the villages of Europe (and also today) lit thier menorahs on the windowsill. The song goes through lighting the eight candles of Hanukkah and how they reflect onto the newly-fallen snow in a mellow, reflective tune that is very catchy. It's another counting-to-8 song, too.

Not all the songs are so serious. There's plenty of fun and some silliness here, too. The "Hanukkah Waltz" is "lighter than latkes and smoother than schmaltz," and you can "kiss the maydl with the ladle" (Mom in the kitchen?) before you do "The Hanukkah Hop." If you are a gullible little kid who falls for the tale of the "Dance of the Leftover Latkes" your older siblings tell you, then at least "We've Gotta Lotta Latkes."

The last number on this CD, "Hanukkah Remembered," is an instrumental medley of all the old favorites -- enjoyed by the parents after the kids have fallen asleep at last. All in all, it's a wonderful CD -- highly recommended!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful Chanukah music, October 12, 2002

By A Customer

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This review is from: Child's Hanukkah (Audio CD)

A friend sent us this CD and all of us (children were 3 and 6 years old last year) love it. Musically beautiful, and fun for the children, too.