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

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Susan Weingarten (translation), Moshe Shmi'el Dascola and Unknown Author(s)

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Megillot, Ḥanukkah Readings, Ḥag haBanot (Eid el Benat)

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Megillat Yehudit, High Middle Ages, 14th century C.E., heroic women, women, חג הבנות Ḥag HaBanot, Judith, anti-predatory, 52nd century A.M., dairy foods, derivative work, soporifics, resistance

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. . . .

בְּכִסְלֵו – מאבן בֹחן | On Kislev, from the poem “Even Boḥan” by Rabbi Ḳalonymus ben Ḳalonymus ben Meir (1322)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Susan Weingarten (translation) and Ḳalonymus ben Ḳalonymus ben Meir

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Ḥanukkah, Rosh Ḥodesh Kislev (כִּסְלֵו)

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51st century A.M., Megillat Yehudit, 14th century C.E., the Rainbow, Megillat Antiokhus, Late Middle Ages, Even Boḥan, anti-predatory, dairy foods

Before potatoes entered the diet of Ashkenazi Jews, latkes were cheese pancakes, or cassola, as described in “Even Boḥan” (Touchstone), a satyrical poem by Rabbi Kalonymus ben Kalonymus ben Meir (b.1286-died after 1328). . . .

אודך כי אנפת בי | Odekha Ki Anafta Bi, a Yotser (Hymn) for Ḥanukkah by Yosef bar Shlomo of Carcassone (ca. 11th cent.)

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Yosef ben Shlomo of Carcassonne, Girls in Trouble and Dr. Sara Reguer (translation)

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Ḥanukkah, Ḥag haBanot (Eid el Benat)

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Megillat Yehudit, High Middle Ages, acrostic, פיוטים piyyutim, predation, Judith, Alphabetic Acrostic, 11th century C.E., 49th century A.M.

“Odecha ki anafta bi (I give thanks to you although you were angry with me) was composed by Joseph ben Solomon of Carcassonne, who is dated to the first half of the eleventh century. This elegant and abstruse poem tells an epic tale of the Jews’ resistance to the decrees of Antiochus IV and includes accounts of both the Hasmonean bride and Judith. It bears a considerable resemblance to texts 4 and 12 of the Hanukkah midrashim[ref]See Grintz, Sefer Yehudit, pp. 205, 207–08[/ref] and this is evidence for the circulation of the joint Hasmonean daughter-Judith tales in the eleventh century, even if the surviving manuscripts of these stories are from a later date.” (Deborah Levine Gera, “The Jewish Textual Traditions” in The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies Across the Disciplines (2010).) . . .