“A Melody in Israel”

                          “A Melody in Israel” – a Chanukah Love Story

                            

                                              By Peninnah Schram

 

“A Melody in Israel”, an original story by Peninnah Schram, contains  historical events intertwined with folklore motifs.

This story, “A Melody in Israell”, was originally published in Peninnah Schram’s book Eight Tales for Eight Nights (that is out-of-print but still available on Amazon.) It is now published in Peninnah’s most recent book Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage: Folktales, Legends and Letters (co-authored with Sandy Eisenberg Sasso) and published by Rowman & Littlefield. (This book is available on Amazon.)

 

Peninnah Schram audio-recorded one of her Chanukah stories “A Melody in Israel” several years ago when she was invited by Bob Sherman to tell this story on his radio program “Woody’s Children”, that is now heard weekly on WFUV.org – or IF you are in the NYC area you can hear it on WFUV 90.7 FM. THIS year, on Sunday December 13, 2020 this Chanukah program will be heard again (for the 3^rd time) between 4-5 p.m. (EST). Bob Sherman has interwoven music for this story to create a ‘cantata’ which takes almost the full hour.

 

    IF you miss the program on December 13^th, beginning the day after that date, and for the following two weeks, you will be able to listen to this Chanukah program on “Woody’s Children” in the Archives of WFUV.org in this link: :Weekend Archives | WFUV

wfuv.org/weekendarchives