Reflections of a Jewish Childhood during Christmas
Reflections of a Jewish Childhood during Christmas
This chapter illustrates how the pressures to conform create their own specific pressures. On reflection, it wonders whether the author has laid too heavy a responsibility on the celebration of Christmas, whether she has lost her own pleasure and enjoyment of Christmas completely. As a child of migrant parents growing up in post-war Britain, she lived between two cultures. Christmas seemed magical and seductive, particularly to a child in between cultures, as it were. In many British Jewish homes in the post-war period of growing affluence, under constant pressure from their young children and television advertising, Hanukkah gifts became larger and more in line with what their non-Jewish school-friends were receiving.
Keywords: post-war Britain, Christmas, Jewish childhood, British Jewish homes, Britain, Hanukkah gifts
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