[lit-ideas] Re: Christmas Trees
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:29:26 -0500
Hanukkah bush
n. a small tree decorated by some (secular) Jews
at the time of the Jewish
holiday Hanukkah, in imitation of the Yule or
Christmas tree. Alexander
Tille in 1892 wrote in the article "German
Christmas and the Christmas-Tree"
in the journal "Folklore" (July 1892, vol. 3, no.
2, p. 170) that in Germany
"the Christmas-tree has long since broken through
the barrier of different
creeds, and many Jewish families have adopted it
to celebrate Yuletide."
Categories: English. Religion.
http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/hanukkah_bush/
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