"Just as some common people among the Jews sat up late on Christmas Eve keeping a boisterous apotropaic vigil, so too many Christian villagers watched out that night together in rowdy protective groups."
— Nittel Nacht

January 1, 1970

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Rebecca Scharbach: "The Ghost in the Privy: On the Origins of Nittel Nacht and Modes of Cultural Exchange". Jewish Studies Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 4 (2013), pp. 340–373. .