Has anyone ever heard of this book?

Question

Ok there's this children's book that I read more than a decade ago, it's a children's story about this Jewish guy who faces off against I think three gargoyles in a synagogue. So if you've heard of this book I would really like to remember the title because it's driving me insane....

Answer 1

Is it this one?
Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins by Eric A. Kimmel
What are the poor villagers to do? The holiday-hating, hill-dwelling hobgoblins are bound and determined to ruin yet another Hanukkah for them. Every year the beasties snuff out the menorah candles, destroy the dreidels, and pitch the potato latkes on the floor. But these wicked wet blankets never counted on someone as clever as Hershel of Ostropol showing up. Using his wits and a few props--pickles, eggs, and a dreidel (a square-shaped top with Hebrew letters on each side)--Hershel manages to outwit all the creepy critters and break the spell. This fabulously creative adaptation of the ancient Hanukkah story in which the Syrians forbade the Jews to worship as they wanted, keeps the spirit of the original while adding a spine-tingling twist. Warmth and humor prevail, even in the midst of hopeless-looking circumstances. Award-winning illustrator Trina Schart Hyman creates lively and witty pictures that pair perfectly with Eric Kimmel's words to create this Caldecott Honor Book. (Ages 4 to 8)

Answer 2

i don't understand what version Kismet is quoting yet on web site 152 of the 1924 version he says: "In each little thing we are destroyers - even interior the contraptions of destruction to which we turn for alleviation. The very socialism and internationalism by which our choked spirit seeks utterance,which seems to threaten your way of existence,are alien to our spirit's demands and desires." by way of the e book he speaks of jews as international-conquerors and of "gentiles" - this encompasses all and sundry from the Chines to the Africans to the Anglo-Saxons to the Latinos of South usa - as a decrease style of existence,taking over area in a international the jew can not and could not proportion. He became widely used in his lifetime as a lecturer and a translator of Sholom Aleichem yet additionally wrote approximately twenty books. He died in Israel interior the early 70's.

Answer 3

no i am sorry