One of the most iconic and beloved symbols of the Christmas season is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. But few know that this critter is the creation of Robert May, a Jewish man who in 1939 was commissioned by Montgomery Ward to create a coloring book for the children of its holiday catalog shoppers. The story of Rudolph is a fairytale for Jews in America: A kid like any other, but with something immutably different and identifying -- an unmissable nose -- who was excl...
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