Songs for Teaching



Celebrating Hanukkah
(Hanukah, Hanukka, or Hanuka!)
Lyrics and Instrumentals

* Sound clips are available from these pages.

The Ballad of Judah Maccabee --  *Just in Time for Chanukah
Chanukah, O Chanukah (Chanuke, Oy Chanuke) * --  Children's Hanukkah Song
Chanukah Rap * -- Craig Taubman
Chanukah Song * -- Steven Carr Reuben and Judy Caplan Ginsburgh
Eight Candles * -- Malvina Reynolds
Hanerot Halalu  -- * Just in Time for Chanukah
Hanuka (Ladino) * -- Judy Frankel
I Have A Little Dreidel * -- Traditional
If I Had a Dreidle * -- Geof Johnson
I'm a Little Dreydl * -- Preschool song by Judy Caplan Ginsburgh
Judah Maccabee, the Hammer * -- Peter and Ellen Allard
Latka (Latke) * -- Geof Johnson
Light a Candle for Chanukah -- * Debbie Friedman
Light One Candle * -- Peter Yarrow
Maoz Tzur (Rock of Ages) * -- Just in Time for Chanukah
Matathias Bold --  *Just in Time for Chanukah
Mi Yimallel --  *Just in Time for Chanukah
Ner Li --  *Just in Time for Chanukah
Not by Might -- Not by Power * -- Debbie Friedman
Ocho Kandelikas (Ladino) * -- Flory Jagoda
S'veevon  (Sivivon) * -- Traditional
Take A Potato * -- Children's Hanukkah Song
Tzur Chayeinu * -- Rabbi Joe Black
Yodim Atem * -- Folk/H.N. Bialik


Hanukka Instrumentals
Chanukah -- Hebrew Folk Tune
Chanukah, O Chanukah (Chanuke, Oy Chanuke) * -- Traditional
Chanike Oy Chanike * -- Sruli & Lisa
Hanerot Halalu * -- Hebrew Folk Tune
I Have a Little Dreydel/ Hanukkah * -- Jon Simon