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מְגִילַּת יְהוּדִית לְאָמְרָהּ בַּחֲנֻכָּה | Megillat Yehudit, the Medieval Scroll of Judith to be said on Ḥanukkah

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Susan Weingarten (translation), Moshe Shmi'el Dascola and Unknown Author(s)
Categories:	Megillot, Ḥanukkah Readings, Ḥag haBanot (Eid el Benat)
Tags:	women, Judith, anti-predatory, dairy foods, soporifics, resistance, Megillat Yehudit, High Middle Ages, 14th century C.E., heroic women, חג הבנות Ḥag HaBanot, 52nd century A.M., derivative work
	This is a faithful transcription of the text of the medieval Megillat Yehudith (the Scroll of Judith), not to be confused with the deutero-canonical Book of Judith, authored in Antiquity. We have further set this text side-by-side with the English translation made by Susan Weingarten, and vocalized and cantillated the Hebrew so that it may be chanted. . . .

מִדְרַשׁ מַעֲשֶׂה חֲנֻכָּה א׳ | Midrash Ma’aseh Ḥanukkah “alef,” a tale of the people’s resistance to the Seleucid Greek occupation

Contributor(s):	Anat Hochberg (translation), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories:	Midrash Aggadah, Ḥanukkah Readings, Ḥag haBanot (Eid el Benat)
Tags:	Late Antiquity, Early Middle Ages, colonization, sexual violence, sexual predation, Droit du seigneur, eating animals, חג הבנות Ḥag HaBanot
	This digital edition of Midrash Ma’aseh Ḥanukkah was transcribed from the print edition published in Otzar Hamidrashim (I. D. Eisenstein, New York: Eisenstein Press, 5675/1915, p.189-190). With much gratitude to Anat Hochberg, this is the first translation of this midrash into English. . . .

מדרש לחנוכה | Midrash l’Ḥanukkah, an interwoven miscellany of Ḥanukkah stories

Contributor(s):	Aliza Arzt, Isabel Bard (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories:	Midrash Aggadah, Ḥanukkah Readings, Ḥag haBanot (Eid el Benat)
Tags:	Angels, Early Middle Ages, cosmological, colonization, sexual violence, sexual predation, Droit du seigneur, Seleucid Greek Occupation, חג הבנות Ḥag HaBanot
	The following is the Midrash l’Ḥanukkah, one of a collection of three midrashim and two megillot containing the details of the story of Ḥanukkah in the Jewish rabbinic tradition. Those already familiar with these other works will quickly recognize portions or summaries of them here albeit with precious additional information added not found anywhere else. . . .

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