Christmas this year, it seems like everyone and their mother is eager to watch every single holiday movie that has ever been aired without even acknowledging Hanukkah.Hanukkah was traditionally a modest holiday in the religious calendar, but over the past 100+ years, it has become its own tradition for many American Jewish families.In a 2010 conversation with NPR, scholar and Rowan University professor Diane Ashton shared how Hanukkah became far more prominent in America after The Civil War.
The country underwent a lot of swift change during that period, including the emergence of a variety of consumer goods and marketing for those goods.
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