Zum Chanukafest pamphlet, 1914 Zum Chanukafest pamphlet • Leo Baeck College Library The Leo Baeck Library Pamphlet Collection includes over 6,500 pamphlets published in the last 150 years showing the vibrancy of Jewish history and ideas. This pamphlet begins “For Chanukah 1914 – A greeting to the Jewish soldiers of the German Army from the Union of German Jews”. It includes psalms, poetry, plays, Torah and rabbinical encouragement to inspire the World War I soldiers receiving it with the deeds of the Maccabees. Zum Chanukafest pamphlet • Leo Baeck College Library It also features a remarkable “Dialogue Between the Chanukah Light and the Christmas Light” by Rabbi Dr Georg Wilde, Chaplain to the Supreme Command of the Fourth Army. Wilde would later be a refugee from Nazi Germany to England but his message of hope expressed through the lights of different traditions shining towards each other, so moving in the context of the Great War, still resonates over 100 years later. You can see the entire pamphlet online here: https://lbc.ac.uk/library-resources/collections/pamphlet-collection/ Discover more Hidden Treasures Hidden Treasures: Celebrating the documents, photos and artefacts in British archives that tell the story of Jews in Britain Leo Baeck College Library Communal Records | Cultural | Jewish Life | ReligionPartially online Leo Baeck College Library, part of Leo Baeck College, contains 60,000 volumes exploring Jewish civilisation. The great texts of Jewish tradition are supported […]