Armed with a menorah, lots of candles, some hard-boiled eggs and some pickles, Hershel makes his way up the hill. Hershel agrees to help them, certain that he can handle a few measly goblins. Furthermore, on the eighth night, the king of the goblins must light the candles himself. The only way to get rid of them is for one person to spend all eight nights of Hanukkah in the synagogue and keep the candles lit. The villagers explain that the old synagogue on top of the hill is haunted by goblins who hate Hanukkah and do their best to ruin it for the villagers. Hershel of Ostropol is traveling on the first night of Hanukkah, a cold and snowy night, but he anticipates eagerly the nearby village where there will be bright menorah lights and lots of luscious potato latkes (potato pancakes) to eat. Eric Kimmel, Hershel and the Hanukkah GoblinsĮric Kimmel uses the Yiddish folk trickster character Hershel of Ostropol (Hershel Ostropolier) to tell his original tale of how a man saved Hanukkah for a village.
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