Chrismukkah now playing at the Jewish Museum in Berlin

Just found out that the Jewish Museum of Berlin (designed by noted modernist architect Daniel Libeskind) is currently presenting an exhibition called "Chrismukkah: Stories of Christmas and Hanukkah."

This quote from the museum's web site:

"A Christmas celebration with a tree, songs, and gifts became a symbol of being a part of German culture for many middle-class Jewish families in the 19th century. Jews celebrated Christmas as a secular "festival of the world around us" without religious meaning, or they transferred Christmas customs to the Hanukkah festival. This mixture was and is referred to as "Chrismukkah." Those who would like to know more about the "December dilemma" which many Jews face each year will find this in the last room of the exhibition."

Wow. So it turns out Chrismukkah actually originated with my German-Jewish ancestors... at least 100 BOC (100 years before "the OC"). The publicists at Fox will plotz! Just yesterday I read yet another apparently erronious story in the paper about how the word Chrismukkah was coined by Josh Schwartz and the OC scriptwriters.