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>> 335 Adjusting the Jewish Child to His World, 171 After Auschwitz, 238 Aguilar, Grace, 96–97 Alexander the Great, 18, 19 Alliance for Jewish Renewal, 240 American calendar, 8 American culture, 9, 12, 13, 14, 45, 52; American customs, 51; gentile nature, 139; greater challenge than the Hellenic world, 260; Hanukkah in, 267–268; and values, 13, 232 American Hebrew, 59, 67, 73, 82, 83, 85, 87, 94, 97–98, 101–102 American Israelite, The, 150, 160 American Revolution, 70, 134 Anti-Defamation League, 171, 218 Antiochus IV, 15–16, 19–24, 27–29, 36–37, 44, 76, 287n. 46; and assimilation, 193; as character in plays, 144, 152–154; image of, 47, 54; struggle against, 114; and upperclass Jews, 132; like the U.S. government, 243 anti-Jewish violence, 35; anti-Jewish feeling, 82–83 Antiquities of the Jews, 25 antisemitism, 140, 144, 146, 148, 150; advice on dealing with, 173; antisemitic acts, 269; and colleges and universities, 146–147; in interwar years, 176, 223; Jewish press on, 147, 156; as last acceptable prejudice, 265; never eradicated in U.S., 236; on the radio, 171; in USSR, 224 Aronin, Ben, 208–209 Ashkenazi(m), 44, 80, 109 Asmonean, The, 40, 97 assimilation, 4, 140, 166, 260; versus acculturation , 226; Hanukkah as a brake on, 173; as having made America less stable, 190; assimilating Jews, 261; pressure to assimilate, 182; at work long ago, 192 Atlanta, 52, 85, 103 Babylonia, 16, 31, 76 Baltimore, 47, 50, 61, 65, 155 Baron, Salo, 29 Bible/Hebrew Bible, 22, 25, 26, 43, 48; Bible stories, 90; biblical law, 29; Protestant versus Roman Catholic, 249 blessing, 26; blessings for Hanukkah, 80 Billings, Montana, 270 Blythedale, Arkansas, 231 B’nai B’rith, 86; B’nai B’rith Youth Organization , 223, 226 books, as best gifts, 98, 102 borderland, 4; border(s), 142 Boston, 69; eastern European immigrants in, 111 boundaries, 3, 14, 143; college students and, 236; drawing and erasing at Christmas, 210–212; home front doors as, 214; lack of clear, 226 Boyarin, Daniel, 29 Brooklyn, 116, 122, 124, 141, 243 Buber, Martin, 237 Buffalo, 52, 97, 109, 133, 157, 177, 213, 249 Bush, George H. W., 249 Bush, George W., 266 Cahan, Abraham, 113, 117, 128–134, 264 candles, 6, 26, 28; blessings, 1, 2, 122; candlelighting ceremony, 44, 125–126; domestic candle-lighting ritual, 92; as a lesson in Jewish values, 196–197; remaining lighted, 6; sense of holiness during, 251 Cantor, Irving, 225–227 cantor(s) 120, 122; performances, 124, 126, 130, 136; persona, 123; on recordings, 178 Caro, Joseph, 32 Carter, Jimmy, 242, 249 Catholics / Roman Catholics, 117 celebrations, 3, 11; advice for creating psychologically supportive, religiously inspiring , and emotionally satisfying, 198; Index 336 > 337 Eliezer, Israel ben (Baal Shem Tov), 34 England, 33, 35, 36, 53, 55 English-language press, 39, 50, 102 Enlightenment, 34, 46 Erikson, Eric, 190, 191 ethnic economy, 106, 177 ethnic identity, 235 ethnic tradition, 76 Europe, 26, 34, 56, 101, 144 European Jews, 30 evangelicals, 44, 46, 77 Exodus, 17, 22 family, 2, 4, 11; participating in Hanukkah festivals, 231; sanctified family life, 12; togetherness, 93 father, 1; singing blessings, 130 feasts, 11, 33, 195 feminism, 252 Festival of Lights, 25, 45, 158; two festivals meant to create light, 219 festivals, 11, 13, 37; Chicago communal, 181; for children, 75, 139, 272; Christmas and Hanukkah, 100; communal Hanukkah, 99; Hanukkah, for children, 79–83, 89–91, 93, 102; about light, 226; respect for, 206; in synagogues, 102 fiction, 55, 56, 91 fifteenth century, 10 fifties, the, 1, 189 Flavius Josephus (Yoseph ben Mattathias), 25, 36 Flint, Michigan, 217, 219 foes, 143 foods, 8, 10–11, 106; customs, 119; purveyors, 118 Forverts, 112–113, 128 France, 35 Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 62–63 freedom, 56, 228; Hanukkah’s message of, 232 Freehof, Fanny Evelyn, 154 games, 33, 36, 107; to block Christmas images on media, 201; in festivals, 274 Geiger, Abraham, 53, 54 gelt (coins), 10, 112, 130 Germans/Germany, 10, 31, 33, 35, 36, 50, 148; after 1933, 170; Christmas customs, 78; Germanic lands, 36, 37, 105; language, 56, 82; rabbis in, 53 gifts, 2, 6, 69, 77, 79, 97, 102; as center for Hanukkah activities, 236; extensive gift-giving, 251; gift-giving occasions, 98–99; Hanukkah versus Christmas, 212; kids seeing as Hanukkah’s meaning, 275; making a ceremony of gift distribution, 197; objects instead of coins, 112; as seeming essential, 267 gift shops in synagogues, 198–199, 225, 234 girls, 90...

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