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Hanukkah

Hanukkah lamp. Europe, probably Germany. Early 20th century. Brass. YU Museum. For more, visit the Center for Jewish History’s Flickr photostream.Click here to connect with the Center for Jewish History on Facebook.

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Chanukah religious service and party, held at the Baltimore “Y.” Michael Jacobson. December 28, 1940. American Jewish Historical Society. For more, visit the Center for Jewish History’s Flickr photostream.Click here to connect with the Center for Jewish History on Facebook.

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Hanukkah Lamp. Georg Stephan Doeffer. Wuerzburg, Germany. approximately 1793. Silver and brass. YU Museum. For more, visit the Center for Jewish History’s Flickr photostream.Click here to connect with the Center for Jewish History on Facebook.

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Carrying Hanukkah gifts to hospitalized servicemen, 1918. American Jewish Historical Society. “Text on back of photograph: "1918 – Carrying Chanuka gifts to hospitalized servicemen at the Ninth Naval District Hospital, Great Lakes, Illinois. Reading from your left to your right: 1. Louis Diamond (deceased), J.W.B. Field Representative at Great Lakes Naval Training Center ; 2. Mrs. Adolph Epstein (deceased), Racine, Wisconsin ; 3. Mrs….

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Eight soldiers gather with their Jewish chaplain to put finishing touches on giant menorah, circa 1950. American Jewish Historical Society. Text on back of photograph: “Eight soldiers gather with their Jewish chaplain to put finishing touches on giant menorah for Hanukah celebration at Ft. Eustis, VA. Other Jewish GIs, in other lands celebrate holiday as part of JWB’s year-round, world-wide program of religious and…

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Hanukkah Lamp. Eliahu Sidi. Israel. 1986. Medium – base: metal, painted; upper deck: plywood, tin, paint. YU Museum Collections. For more, visit the Center for Jewish History’s Flickr photostream.Click here to connect with the Center for Jewish History on Facebook.

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Postcard. Soldiers celebrating Hanukah at Little White House, Camp Gordon, GA, circa 1917. American Jewish Historical Society. For more, visit the Center for Jewish History’s Flickr photostream.Click here to connect with the Center for Jewish History on Facebook.

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Image of the day: Hanukah greeting card. Issued by the Jewish Welfare Board. Paper, printed. 1945. Collection of Yeshiva University Museum.  For more, visit the Center for Jewish History’s Flickr photostream.Click here to connect with the Center for Jewish History on Facebook and on Twitter. 

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Sixth Day Hanukkah for the Whole Familyby David P. Rosenberg, Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History Above image: Giant Hanukah candlelight ceremony at JCC, circa 1950. c/o American Jewish Historical Society. Quizzes – Six questions for the sixth day The Teachers’ guide for Hanukah 5718 (1957) by Isidore E. Krakower, Director of Religious Education, Religious School of Temple Shrey Tefilo (East Orange,…

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Justine Wise Polier and Eleanor Roosevelt conversing with Women’s Division members at Annual Hanukkah Luncheon. 1955. American Jewish Historical Society. For more, visit the Center for Jewish History’s Flickr photostream.Click here to connect with the Center for Jewish History on Facebook.

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