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S H O R T S T O R Y Zlateh the Goat Zlateh Goat by Isaac Bashevis Singer pictures by Maurice Sendak Read with a Purpose Build Background Read this story to see how the bond between “Zlateh the Goat” takes place around Hanukkah (HAH nuh kah), a Jewish human and animal is displayed by a boy and the religious festival usually observed in December. Hanukkah is an eight- goat he has to take to the butcher’s. day-long celebration of the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in 165 B.C., following the victory of Jewish fi ghters over a huge Syrian Preparing to Read for the selection is on army. The Temple, which had been taken over by Antiochus, ruler of the page 399. Syrians, had been violated and damaged. While the Jews were purifying and repairing the Temple, a miracle occurred. A tiny bit of oil for the holy lamp—barely enough for one day—lasted eight days. t Hanukkah time the road from the sell Zlateh the goat. She was old and gave village to the town is usually cov- little milk. Feyvel the town butcher had Aered with snow, but this year the o ered eight gulden2 for her. Such a sum winter had been a mild one. Hanukkah had would buy Hanukkah candles, potatoes almost come, yet little snow had fallen. e and oil for pancakes, gi s for the children, sun shone most of the time. e peasants and other holiday nece