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14 décembre 2022
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Hannah Teddy Schachter, « Happy Hanukkah from the Board of MJSnow! », medievalJewishStudiesNow!, ID : 10.58079/rhw6
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At least since the Middle Ages, the festival of Hanukkah has been strongly connected to the apocryphal Book of Judith. The hymn for Hanukkah, Odecha ki Anafta Bi (I give thanks to you although you were angry with me), was composed by Joseph ben Solomon of Carcassonne in the 11th century. This elegant poem tells an epic tale of the Jews’ resistance to the decrees of Antiochus IV and includes accounts of Judith, a central figure of the Hanukkah midrashim. (See Deborah Levine Gera, “The Jew...