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Author Ashton, Dianne.

Title Hanukkah in America : a history / Dianne Ashton.

Publisher New York : New York University Press, [2013]

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Physical Description vii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history.
Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents What is Hanukkah? -- Modern Maccabees -- Children light up -- Remade in America -- Homegrown heroism -- Forging a common tradition -- Hippies, Hasidim, & havurot.
Summary The ways in which Hanukkah was reshaped by American Jews reveals the changing goals and values that emerged among different contingents each December as they confronted the reality of living as a religious minority in the United States.
Subject Hanukkah -- United States.
Judaism -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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