Inventing Christmas
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Inventing Christmas
Author | : Jock Elliott |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2002-10 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106016655935 |
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Looks at the origins of modern Christmas traditions, which evolved over a twenty-five year period, beginning in 1823 with the publication of Clement Clarke Moore's "A Visit from St. Nicholas," to 1848.
Inventing the Christmas Tree
Author | : Bernd Brunner |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 2012-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780300186529 |
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Explores the roots of the Christmas tree tradition, tracing customs from the Middle Ages to the present day to reveal how it first became part of mainstream American culture and has since become popular worldwide.
The Christmas Carol
Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Christmas stories |
ISBN | : 9780557892907 |
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Inventing Christmas
Author | : Jock Elliott |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2002-10 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : IND:30000081743373 |
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Looks at the origins of modern Christmas traditions, which evolved over a twenty-five year period, beginning in 1823 with the publication of Clement Clarke Moore's "A Visit from St. Nicholas," to 1848.
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Author | : Les Standiford |
Publsiher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2008-11-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780307449733 |
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As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world—now a major motion picture. Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol himself. He worried it might be the end of his career as a novelist. The book immediately caused a sensation. And it breathed new life into a holiday that had fallen into disfavor, undermined by lingering Puritanism and the cold modernity of the Industrial Revolution. It was a harsh and dreary age, in desperate need of spiritual renewal, ready to embrace a book that ended with blessings for one and all. With warmth, wit, and an infusion of Christmas cheer, Les Standiford whisks us back to Victorian England, its most beloved storyteller, and the birth of the Christmas we know best. The Man Who Invented Christmas is a rich and satisfying read for Scrooges and sentimentalists alike.
Inventing Scrooge
Author | : Carlo DeVito |
Publsiher | : Cider Mill Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017-10-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781604337792 |
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Inventing Scrooge uncovers the real-life inspirations from Charles Dickens’ own world that led to the fascinating creation of his most beloved tale: A Christmas Carol. When Charles Dickens created the story that would become A Christmas Carol, little did he know that his “ghostly little book” would reinvent the way we celebrate Christmas. From a graveyard in Edinburgh to the Marshalsea Prison in London to his schoolboy years in Chatham and even his lifelong fascination with dance, so much of Dickens’ past and present are woven into the characters and themes of A Christmas Carol. And by understanding the story behind the story, readers will come to embrace the holiday classic all the more. To this day, we look to the Christmas season as a time of warmth and celebration among family, friends, and strangers alike. And every year at Christmastime, not only do our lives get better for all the festivity, but we get better, as people. Just like Ebenezer Scrooge.
A Christmas Carol
Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-03-27 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1761531468 |
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A Kosher Christmas
Author | : Joshua Eli Plaut |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2012-10-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780813553818 |
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Christmas is not everybody’s favorite holiday. Historically, Jews in America, whether participating in or refraining from recognizing Christmas, have devised a multitude of unique strategies to respond to the holiday season. Their response is a mixed one: do we participate, try to ignore the holiday entirely, or create our own traditions and make the season an enjoyable time? This book, the first on the subject of Jews and Christmas in the United States, portrays how Jews are shaping the public and private character of Christmas by transforming December into a joyous holiday season belonging to all Americans. Creative and innovative in approaching the holiday season, these responses range from composing America’s most beloved Christmas songs, transforming Hanukkah into the Jewish Christmas, creating a national Jewish tradition of patronizing Chinese restaurants and comedy shows on Christmas Eve, volunteering at shelters and soup kitchens on Christmas Day, dressing up as Santa Claus to spread good cheer, campaigning to institute Hanukkah postal stamps, and blending holiday traditions into an interfaith hybrid celebration called “Chrismukkah” or creating a secularized holiday such as Festivus. Through these venerated traditions and alternative Christmastime rituals, Jews publicly assert and proudly proclaim their Jewish and American identities to fashion a universally shared message of joy and hope for the holiday season. See also: http://www.akosherchristmas.org