![]() ![]() Since most Jewish families don’t huddle around a fire and read Maccabees 1-2 (these books are actually non-canonical in Judaism), children’s books about Hanukkah provide a useful vehicle for transmitting the story and passing on the holiday traditions. But like the typical American Christmas, the holiday is mostly observed at home and with the family. surrounding the winter holidays, Hanukkah enjoys a lot of attention in the US. As a seasonal companion to Christmas, and the very American culture of. This collections bias might reflect the importance of the holiday as a particularly Jewish-American tradition (there were simply more American books about Hanukkah for Mr. Page, 50019Notably, our holdings of Hanukkah books are mostly English language and published in the US. We have around twenty American books related to Hanukkah, while I could locate only one Hanukkah book in Hebrew (though it has been a very long time since I went to Hebrew school). ![]()
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