Hanukkah (The Art of Jewish Living) (English and Hebrew Edition)

Designed to help celebrate and enrich the holiday season, Hanukkah discusses the holiday s origins, reasons for the Hanukkah candles and customs, and provides everything from recipes to family activities. There are songs in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish (with clear transliterations), recipes for Hanukkah foods particularly all sorts of luscious latkes useful information on the arts and crafts of Hanukkah, the calendar and its relationship to Christmas time, and games played at Hanukkah. Putting the holiday in a larger, timely context, December Dilemmas deals with ways in which a Jewish family can cope with Christmas. Throughout the book, representative Jewish families explain their customs and ideas about observing Hanukkah, while vividly expressing their personal feelings about the holiday.