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Yeshayahu ben Amōts | Mordecai ben Yitsḥok ha-Levi | Zackary Sholem Berger (translation) | Sol Bloom | René Cassin | Peng Chun Chang | David Curiel | Shlomo Enkin Lewis (translation) | Benjamin Feigenbaum | Refoyl Finkl (translation) | Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve | Binyamin Holtzman | John Peters Humphrey | Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles | Avraham ibn Ezra | Shlomo ibn Gabirol | Isaac Leeser (translation) | Morris Lichtenstein | Charles Malik | Ehud Manor | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) | the Mesorah (TaNaKh) | United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights | István Roboz | Levi Yitsḥaq Derbarmdiger Rosakov of Berditchev | Akiva Sanders (translation) | Friedrich Schiller | Jan Christian Smuts | Unknown | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) | Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
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Contributed by: Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Unknown (translation), Mordecai ben Yitsḥok ha-Levi
This is an English translation of Maoz Tsur published by The Hebrew Standard for their 1893 Ḥanukkah issue (vol. 29, no. 12, New York, Friday, 8 December 1893 — 29 Kislev 5654). The Hebrew Standard was one of the biggest English-language Jewish papers in America around the turn of the twentieth century, generally taking a more traditionalist line than the Reform papers and a more moderate line than the leftist ones. This translation, simply titled “Chanukah”, unfortunately goes unattributed in the pages of The Hebrew Standard. The translation follows an ABABCCDD rhyme scheme (for those unfamiliar with rhyme scheme notation, this is the same rhyme scheme as “The Star-Spangled Banner“), unlike the Hebrew’s ABABBBccB. . . .
