Albert Stern (JTA)

Albert Stern is the Berkshire Jewish Voice, where a version of this article originally appeared. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Nerve, the Forward and WAMC Northeast Public Radio.

Little girl sitting on the floor to play dreidel

The Hidden History of "I Have a Little Dreidel"

Albert Stern (JTA)

Samuel E. Goldfarb penned “I Have a Little Dreidel”, while his older brother composed “Shalom Aleichem.” To use a Christian equivalent, it would be like having one brother write “Jingle Bells” and another compose “Silent Night.”