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In a 1959 appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, actress Gertrude Berg described her father's substitution of a "Chanukah bush" in place of a Christmas tree. [7] Another family's dynamic is described by Edward Cohen, [8] in a memoir about Jewish life in 1950s Mississippi: I recalled the year I had asked my mother for a Christmas tree.
The first historically documented Christmas tree was erected in Vienna in 1814 by the Jewish socialite Fanny von Arnstein, who had brought this custom from Berlin. [8] The founder of Zionism Theodor Herzl also celebrated Christmas or at least allowed a tree to be set up in his house for his children and suggested the name "Hanukkah Tree".
A large public menorah, with a Christmas tree visible in the background, at Pariser Platz on December 11, 2020. The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, traditionally a minor one, is considered important in the modern United States because it occurs during the Christmas and holiday season; many American Jews view it as a Jewish counterpart to Christmas ...
Still, noted the New York Times, while tracing the rise of Hanukkah-themed commercialism, "More than 150 years ago, American Jews faced the opposite problem.Families settling in U.S. cities found ...
The story "The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree" in the "Writer's Diary" was preceded by a small chapter "The Boy with a Hand", and all the materials taken together from the first two chapters of the "Writer's Diary" (in the first chapter the writer placed his journalistic reflections on the same topic) were united by the theme of ...
Jewish folklore are legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of Judaism. Folktales are characterized by the presence of unusual personages, by the sudden transformation of men into beasts and vice versa, or by other unnatural incidents.
The Jewish people's tendency to adopt the neighboring pagan practices, denounced as it had been by the Jewish prophets, returned with force during the Talmudic period. However, almost no mythology was borrowed until the Midrashic and Talmudic periods, when what can be described as mysticism emerged in the kabbalistic schools.
The Legends of the Jews is a chronological compilation of aggadah from hundreds of biblical legends in Mishnah, Talmud and Midrash.The compilation consists of seven volumes (four volumes of narrative texts and two volumes of footnotes with a volume of index) synthesized by Louis Ginzberg in a manuscript written in the German language.