8 Days of Queer Judaism, Day 8: A Parakeet Named Dreidel
(This is the last of eight Chanukah posts. I hope you all enjoyed them, or at least one or two of you enjoyed them.)
There's nothing queer about this one, but every year at Chanukah my mom reads us this Isaac Bashevis Singer story and every year it makes my dad cry. Check it out if you have a soft spot for fate, parakeets, latkes or true love.
3 comments:
that story made me cry.
That is darling! Zack, do you know why your mom reads it or what her particular attachment to the story is? I think it's interesting to find out why our families do the traditions we do. When we're growing up we just do them thinking it's normal. But eventually I found out, for example, that not every family in America has tamales on Christmas morning. It'd be cool to ask your mom about the story and how she first came across it.
For some reason this reminded me of the O.Henry story, "Gift of the Magi." Now this one always makes me cry and makes for a dear Christmas pairing with the Singer story Zack shared. The Gift of the Magi
Not quite sure, Chris, I think she stumbled across it a while ago and really enjoyed it. I'm actually intrigued now to find out how that started. I didn't mention this, but the story can be found in Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Power of Light."
And Chris, Gift of the Magi rocks too. My mom even took me to see a stage version of that when I was little and I remember being really moved even then.
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