A Kosher Christmas
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Creative and innovative in approaching the holiday season, these responses range from composing America’s most beloved Christmas songs, transforming Hanukkah into the Jewish Christmas, creating a national Jewish tradition of patronizing Chinese restaurants and comedy shows on Christmas Eve, volunteering at shelters and soup kitchens on Christmas Day, dressing up as Santa Claus to spread good cheer, campaigning to institute Hanukkah postal stamps, and blending holiday traditions into an interfaith hybrid celebration called “Chrismukkah” or creating a secularized holiday such as Festivus.
Through these venerated traditions and alternative Christmastime rituals, Jews publicly assert and proudly proclaim their Jewish and American identities to fashion a universally shared message of joy and hope for the holiday season.
See also: http://www.akosherchristmas.org
JOSHUA ELI PLAUT, an ordained rabbi, holds a Ph.D. in Hebrew and Judaic Studies. He is the author of Greek Jewry in the Twentieth Century, 1913–1983 and has documented Jewish life and popular culture through photography, oral history, and ethnography.
Foreword by Jonathan D. Sarna
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Coping with Christmas: A Multitude of Jewish Responses
1. Coming to the New World: Can the American Jew Keep Christmas?
2. Hanaukkah Comes of Age: the New Jewish Christmas
3. We Eat Chinese Food on Christmas
4. " ' Twas the Night Before Hanukkah": Remaking Christmas through Parody and Popular Culture
5. The Christmas Mitzvah: 'Tis the Season to be Giving
6. Chrismukkah and Festivus: Holidays for the Rest of Us
Conclusion: Menorahs Next to Madonnas: shaping the Future of Christmas in America
Notes
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.10.2012 |
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Vorwort | Jonathan D. Sarna |
Zusatzinfo | 17 illustrations |
Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 286 g |
Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Liturgik / Homiletik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8135-5380-6 / 0813553806 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8135-5380-1 / 9780813553801 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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