Christmas literature and Jewish identity

Some years ago, a college friend of my brother’s and mine visited our family home in Denver. “Now I understand it,” he said, sagely, after a couple of hours: “If you aren’t actively making noise in this house, you don’t exist.” It’s true that I come from a noisy clan. If it is rude to... The post My favorite Christmas scene in literature — and why it makes me feel so Jewish appeared first on The Forward.