The Yiddish Cultural Origins of Some Chanukah Traditions
What is the origin of the dreidel game? Why do we give chanukah gelt?
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Pamela Brenner is a postgraduate student at the University of Oxford. She received her BA in Yiddish Studies from Barnard College and is Managing Editor of Women on the Yiddish Stage, forthcoming from Syracuse University Press.
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