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Sermons of Thanksgiving
By Lauren Gilbert
Senior Manager for Public Services, Center for Jewish History
Sermons of Thanksgiving
It is widely believed that the Pilgrims modeled their Thanksgiving feast after the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. In its modern incarnation as a secular festival focusing on gratitude, an appropriately Jewish concept, Thanksgiving has been observed by American Jews from its earliest days.
Photo of the day: Lois Greene Stone, Camp Watitoh, Becket, Massachusetts, 1950. From American Jewish Historical Society.
For more archival photos, visit the Center for Jewish History’s Flickr photostream.
