Yes Harrison, Hanukkah is now definitely lit.

On Dec. 23, 1997, Harrison Fuchs of Midwood, Brooklyn, lamented his neighborhood was awash in the glow of Christmas lights, yet the Festival of Lights got no respect.

In a letter to The Post, the Rodney Dangerfield of his kindergarten class confessed: “It’s very hard to be a 5-year-old Jewish boy at this time of year.”

“I get very sad when I am driving the car in Brooklyn and I look at all the lights and decorations hanging across the avenues,” the little boy wrote, adding: “I did not see any decorations hanging over the streets that made me think of Chanukah. I love all the lights and decorations. But I don’t understand why their [sic] aren’t any six-pointed stars, menorahs or dreidels hanging up.” 

The now 30-year-old Harrison says he’s still amazed.

“It just struck me as odd that there was such an inundation of Christmas things with no Jewish representation,” he told The Post. 

A year after the little boy’s reflective letter to The Post, his parents did something about the dearth of Hanukkah glitter — decorating the outside of their home. The tradition snowballed into what’s now known as the Hanukkah House, and draws scores of visitors every year.

The dazzling array of blue and white lights against inflatable menorahs, dreidels and “Mensch on a Bench,” gets visitors from as near as Queens, Long Island and Connecticut, and as far as Israel.

“I never wanted him to think Hanukkah was a second-rate holiday,” said mom Gail, who also introduced the “Hanukkah Fairy” to her son and older daughter.

“She was just like the tooth fairy – it was magical,” Harrison marveled.

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This year, Harrison just may have won Hanukkah. 

Now a playwright and actor who’s known as Harrison Bryan, he debuted “A Hanukkah Carol, or GELT TRIP! The Musical” — a Jewish riff on Charles Dickens’ Christmas classic — on the first night of Hanukkah at The Green Room 42 in Manhattan. The show, which has an eight-person, all-Jewish cast playing 80 characters, even includes a “Hanukkah fairy.”

“This show is so connected to my family and upbringing,” said Harrison, who worked with two collaborators, adding that his artistic statement accompanying the show mentioned The Post letter as his inspiration.

“It really started with this New York Post article,” he said.

His goal is to partner with investors and producers and mount a commercial run every season in the city.

“I’ve been the poster boy of Hanukkah these past couple of weeks,” said Harrison, who got married earlier this year and lives around the block from his childhood home. “I have turned into a Hanukkah Harry,” he said, adding he still loves to bring some “oy” to the world and help his parents mount the enormous Hanukkah display every year.

“What’s important to me is that my parents’ home shines brightest. I still feel connected to it,” he said of the Hanukkah display, which could make anyone’s head spin faster than a dreidel. “I’m a bit of a Hanukkah elf.”

Gail, 66, along with husband David, who built the front yard’s six-foot freestanding menorah in his steel fabrication shop, noted of the family display, “In the beginning, it was all about Harrison’s joy. But then as he got older he saw the joy it brought to others.”

Now the Fuchs’ Hanukkah House features an original song from the musical, “Light Up the Night,” playing in the background.

It’s more than just coming full circle — “It’s a full star of David,” he said.