A Snapshot of Brooklyn Hanukkahs Gone By

Hanukkah is here again, and we’re taking a trip to the past via some old photos to see Brooklynites celebrating the Festival of Lights decades ago. All originally appeared in the Brooklyn Eagle.

Rabbi Levi Belitzky explains the symbolism and history of Hanukkah to three small patients at the Jewish Sanitarium and Hospital for Chronic Diseases, 1952.

Thomas Bretter, 8, lights a candle on the menorah at his home in south Williamsburg, 1954.

Two children and Rabbi Harry Suchman preview the holiday celebration at the Menorah Home and Hospital for the Aged in Bushwick, 1954.

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