How does Adam Sandler Hanukkah Song drowns out Dreidel Dreidel?
As Jews light the first candle of the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah tonight, how many will be playing irreverent Adam Sandler’s Hanukkah Song? It may be the among best known Jewish holiday tunes today, crushing kiddy-song competitor Dreidel Dreidel”(for the spinning top toy) as Sandler warbles: So drink your gin-and-tonic-ah, and smoke your mara-juanic-ah,/If you really, really wanna-kah, have a happy, happy, happy, happy Hanukkah! Well, maybe not for the tots who would enjoy a more traditional party. But the options for adults should be wider. Here to help: Jenna Weissman Joselit at the Jewish Daily Forward.She offers a historical tour of generations of Hanukkah songs as far back as an 1879 pageant at the New York Academy of Music featuring …100 cymbal-bearing maidens, Jewish soldiers, trumpeters, banner bearers, Syrian captives and young women with harps. Her musical tour includes pieces that hew more closely to the narrative of the holiday, that Jewish Maccabees drove pagan forces
