Kvitlech

Kvitlech [also spelled Kvitlach, Quitlok] (Yiddish, literally "notes", "slips") [cite book
title=Dictionary Of Jewish Usage: A Guide To The Use Of Jewish Terms
first=Sol
last=Steinmetz
pages=66
year=2005
publisher=Rowman & Littlefield
isbn=0742543870] is a game similar to blackjack played in some Jewish homes during the Hanukkah season.cite web
url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/12/01/gambling_had_role_in_religious_history/
title=Gambling had role in religious history
first=Rich
last=Barlow
publisher=The Boston Globe
date=2007-12-02] Hanukkah card playing was a traditional cover for Torah study, which had been outlawed for Jews by a Syrian-Greek king in the second century BCE (presumably Antiochus IV Epiphanes).Fact|date=December 2007

The original kvitlech deck consisted of 31 numbered cards, artistically colored, representing the 31 kings against whom the Israelites fought under Joshua, a biblical prelude to the Maccabean victory. [cite web
url=http://www.ajn.com.au/news/news.asp?pgID=2243
title=Eight Chanukah ‘lites’
first=Chaim
last=Ingram
publisher=The Australian Jewish News
date=2006-12-14
accessdate=2007-12-04]

External links

* [http://www.pagat.com/banking/quitlok.html Rules of Quitlok as given by John McLeod]

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