Hartman Institute Scholars Light Up Hanukkah

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Take a deeper look at Hanukkah, a holiday often misunderstood, with these articles and video offerings from Shalom Hartman Institute scholars.

Newly found and now available for the first time in decades: Essays on Hanukkah from David Hartman

• Hanukkah: Reflections on Courage and Particularity
• ‘Who is a Jew’ in Light of the Hanukkah Experience
• Hanukkah Offers Israeli Jews a Concept of Jewish Survival in Modern History
• The Courage to Defy Mass Culture: Reflections on the Lights of Hanukkah

Donniel Hartman

• The Israel-Diaspora Hanukkah Divide
• The Line Between Heroism and Fanaticism
• The End of Hanukkah (original)
• The End of Hanukkah (2017 update syndicated by Religion News Service)

Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi

• Who Can Retell? The Problem of the ‘Other’ in Israel

Avital Hochstein

• What the Talmud Taught Me About Christmas: The Hanukkah Candles’ Criticism of Particularism and Universalism

Laura Geller

• The Miracle(s) of Hanukkah

Video

Hebrew

• A Great Peace Advertises the Miracle

Background & Educational Curricula

• The Jewish Cultural Civil War and the Reinvention of Hanukkah in the Twentieth Century
• Reinventing Hanukkah
• Civil War (Hebrew)