by Johnathan Longo

The holidays are officially here! We may all be celebrating differently this year, but that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate. Fordham Libraries’ collections include many fun, interesting, and beautiful holiday books available for checkout now. From a history of Christmas cards, to a look at the Jewish Museum’s stunning Menorah collection, to a guide on the food of Kwanzaa, the library has it all! There are print books as well as ebooks currently available. Also available to stream from home, using your Fordham IT ID, are classic holiday movies and albums. Watch Jimmy Stewart lasso the moon in It’s a Wonderful Life or listen to Bing Crosby croon your favorite carols all while sipping some hot chocolate on your couch. Follow the links below to access the catalog records for each item and enjoy. Stay safe and happy holidays to all!

Christmas Books & E-books

• Christmas: A Biography by Judith Flanders
• Christmas days : 12 stories and 12 feasts for 12 days by Jeanette Winterson
• The Christmas Truce: Myth, Memory, and the First World War by Terri Blom Crocker
• Christmas books for children by Eugene Giddens
• Delicious December: how the Dutch brought us Santa, presents, and treats: a holiday cookbook by Peter G. Rose
• A time of fulfillment: spiritual reflections for Advent and Christmas by Anselm Grun
• American Christmas cards, 1900-1960 by Kenneth Ames
• The man who invented Christmas: how Charles Dickens’s A Christmas carol rescued his career and revived our holiday spirits by Les Standiford
• Christmas: a candid history by Bruce David Forbes

Hanukkah Books & E-books

• The Hanukkah anthology by Philip Goodman
• The art of Hanukkah by Nancy Berman
• Hanukkah in America: a history by Dianne Ashton
• Luminous art : Hanukkah menorahs of the Jewish Museum by Susan Braunstein
• Every person’s guide to Hanukkah by Ronald Isaacs
• Hershel and the Hanukkah goblins by Eric Kimmel
• Five centuries of Hanukkah lamps from the Jewish Museum: a catalogue raisonné from the Jewish Museum
• 500 questions and answers on Chanukah by Jeffrey Cohen

Kwanzaa Books & Ebooks

• Kwanzaa: Black power and the making of the African-American holiday tradition by Keith Mayes
• Kwanzaa: an African-American celebration of culture and cooking by Eric Copage
• Kwanzaa and me: a teacher’s story by Vivian Paley

Movies

• It’s a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra
• Joyeux Noël directed by Christian Carion
• The Nutcracker: A Christmas Story directed by Derek Bailey
• The First Silent Night: The Carol that United the World directed by Peter Beveridge
• Jacques Pepin’s Chanukah Celebration directed by Monica Caston

Music

• Christmas Classics by Gene Autry
• Christmas With Rosemary Clooney & Bing Crosby performed by Rosemary Clooney and Bing Crosby
• Blue Christmas performed by Elvis Presley
• Best Of The Temptations Christmas performed by The Temptations
• Christmas With Rosemary Clooney performed by Rosemary Clooney
• A Taste Of Chanukah
• Oy Chanukah! performed by Klezmer Conservatory Band
• Chanukah At Home performed by Dan Crow
• Holiday Times performed by Ella Jenkins