Is It True?

[Susan Higginbotham]

I checked "Lincoln and the Jews" and didn't find any reference to such a card, at least that a search through the index could bring up. The story sounds rather unlikely to me; I don't think most non-Jewish Americans in the 1860s would have paid much attention to Hanukkah, a minor Jewish holiday which hadn't acquired its present status as an alternative to Christmas. And if Hanukkah cards existed at the time, I doubt they would have been widely sold outside of Jewish neighborhoods.