Chanukah: a German festival

[lethargic_man]

I didn't realise until I spent (part of) Chanukah in Berlin just how German a festival it is. We sing Maoz Tzur to a medley of German tunes, we eat what we call latkes and sufganiyot (doughnuts), but which are just Yiddish and Hebrew names respectively for what the Germans call Reibekuchen and Berliner. Amazing how merely having one's ancestors move away gives one such a sense of misplaced proprietorial attachment (the same way most British Jews are probably unaware that plaited bread is an east European custom, and Sephardi challos, *ahem* I mean challot, are not plaited).