Nittel Nacht: An Inverted Christmas with Toledot Yeshu
How Jews responded to the celebration of Jesus’ birth by creating a cynical version of Christmas Eve lampooning him.
Hebrew University
Shai Alleson-Gerberg is a graduate student at the Hebrew University and a Fellow in the Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. His field of interest is Sabbateanism and Jewish-Christian relations. Among his articles are “The Way of a Man with a Maiden, The Way of a Serpent upon a Rock – R. Jonathan Eibeschütz View of Christianity” and “Regarding the Ethos of Poverty among Jews in the Muslim World in the Middle Ages” [Hebrew].
Last Updated: November 10, 2026
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