Call me a softie, but I love a traditional Christmas Eve. If you don’t find me eating Chinese food and watching a movie, I might be catching Gotham Comedy Club’s “A Very Jewish Christmas!” show or comedian Joel Chasnoff’s “ Christmas for the Jews .” Or I may just stay home, light a fire and listen to “ Oy to the World: A Klezmer Christmas ” by The Klezmonauts.

If none of that is your idea of traditional, you might want to get a copy of Jordan Chad’s new book, “ Christmas in the Yiddish Tradition .”

A multidisciplinary researcher affiliated with the University of Toronto’s Centre for Jewish Studies, Chad offers up the “untold story” of how Yiddish-speaking Jews “celebrated” Christmas — not as the birth of the baby Jesus, heaven forbid. On what they called “Nitl-nacht,” or ju

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