Annual obligatory reshare, for the Impending Night, of Matthew Willis’ essay on Nittel Nacht, or Ashkenazi Jewish Christmas Eve, featuring pogroms, Zombie-Wizard Jesus, and the tense yet necessary relationship between tradition and modernity.

https://daily.jstor.org/nittel-nacht-the-jewish-christmas-eve/

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