Hanukkah

This exhibit shares fun facts, curriculum content, liturgy, and other resources surrounding Hanukkah around the Jewish world and in various Jewish languages.

Where do the letters on the dreidel come from?

A freylekhn khanike! Hanukkah highlights from the Yiddish Book Center

Ocho Kandelikas, a Ladino Hanukkah song, performed by the US Army Band

Bumuelos, a Sephardic fritter (Photo by Susan Barocas)

Click here for the recipe!

Agda ŋowaidna "Such is our custom", a Moroccan Judeo-Arabic song for the conclusion of Ḥanukkah (via OpenSiddur)

Oy Ḥanukkah, in Yiddish (via OpenSiddur)

Mordkhe Rivesman’s “Khaneke oy Khaneke” in Susman Kiselgof’s Lider-Zamlbukh (1912)

Prière Pour la Fête de Hanouka (Prayer for the Festival of Ḥanukkah) by Jonas Ennery and Rabbi Arnaud Aron, 1848 (via OpenSiddur)

"Hannukah," a Jewish German hymn, 1868 (via OpenSiddur)

Got Merch?

We have a great variety of Hanukkah-themed items available for purchase at our RedBubble store, from posters and stickers to apparel and tote bags.

All proceeds support our mission!