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Chanukah Memories
“The first Chanukah party that I can remember was before we moved into the new house. I was five... each child found at his place an individual favor, a miniature candlestick with a candle tied in blue ribbon, in a setting of white, blue, and tinsel streamers. There were gift packages and games, fancy cakes and homemade candies.”
Rose Berman Goldstein, manuscript, 1973. Goldstein grew up in Minneapolis, MN, in the 1920s. Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
“I remember seeing my mother make Chanukah candles. I don't know what she used to make them, but they were orange, and I used to look at these
candles hanging from the rafters in the woodshed. During the eight days of the Festival of Lights she would bring them in and light them as the Jews had done since the days of the Maccabees.”
Sophie Turnoy Trupin, Dakota Diaspora, 1984. Trupin grew up on a farm near Wilton, North Dakota, in the 1910s.
top photo: DeeDee Finberg celebrating Chanukah, St. Paul, MN, about 1940. Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
inset photo, right: Homemade Chanukah decoration, 1930s. Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
inset photo, left: Gingerbread house made by Doris Kirschner in the 1970s for her annual Chanukah cookie party. Courtesy of Doris Kirschner, Minneapolis, MN.
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