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These pages are photographs from the pages of A Different Light: The Hanukkah Book of Celebration and A Different Light: The Big Book of Hanukkah. To see a large size version of any picture, click on it.

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	Golda Meir — Hanukkah 1919 Golda Meir holding a menorah in the Poalei Zion tableau of "Jewish Rebirth" in Milwaukee, May 18, 1919 — exactly 29 years before the actual birth of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948. (State Historical Society of Wisconsin)
	Mattathias Mattathias kills the Jewish traitor who obeyed the Greek command to worship Zeus (I Mac. 2:26) (Gustav Dore, 19th century France)
	The Bar Kochba Club, Berlin 1902 The "Bar Kochba (B.K.)/ HaKoach" Jewish athletics club of Berlin (1902) was one of many Jewish sports organizations at the turn of the century seeking, on one hand, to emulate the non-Jewish and often anti-semitic sports fraternities and, on the other, to revive Jewish pride. Clubs were named after ancient military heroes, like the Maccabees and Bar Kochba, the tough guerrilla fighter who led the last revolt against Roman rule in 132 CE (Bildarchiv Preussicher Kulturbesitz, Berlin).
	Spiritual Heroism: Germany 1933 A Menorah in an apartment window overlooking the town hall of Kiel, Germany, bedecked with its Nazi flag (c. 1933-1939) (Bildarchiv Preussicher Kulturbesitz, Berlin)