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Definition of Chanukkah
1. Noun. (Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 BC.
Category relationships: Judaism
Generic synonyms: Jewish Holy Day
Group relationships: Chislev, Kislev, Tebet, Tevet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chanukkah
Literary usage of Chanukkah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jewish Ceremonial Institutions and Customs by William Rosenau (1912)
"On lighting the chanukkah lights the following benedictions are recited : "
Praised be the Lord, our God, King of the Universe, Who has sanctified us with ..."
2. A Sketch of Jewish History by Gustav Karpeles (1897)
"On the one side burn the chanukkah candles, on the other, the lights of the ...
Let us hold fast to the chanukkah lights. They stand for unshaken faith in ..."
3. The Beginnings of the Chicago Sinai Congregation: A Contribution to the by Bernhard Felsenthal (1898)
"Ausserdem sollen chanukkah und Purim, ... Besides, there shall be distinguished
in public worship the days of chanukkah and Purim, ..."
4. The Book of Psalms: A New English Translation with Explanatory Notes and an by Julius Wellhausen, Horace Howard Furness (1898)
"The dedication of the Temple by 30, 1 10 Solomon was not contemporaneous with a
deliverance from great distress, nor do we find it called chanukkah. ..."
5. The Messiah-ideal: Comparative Religious Legislations, Doctrines and Forms by Maurice Fluegel (1896)
"chanukkah means dedication, renovation, regeneration of worship, ... That commemorates
chanukkah, the Hebrew substitute for Yule, Apollo-day and Christmas. ..."
6. Reminiscences by Isaac Mayer Wise (1901)
"... of the congregation on chanukkah. When I, provided with a copy of Sulzer's
Shir Tsiyon, of which there were possibly but two copies in America, ..."
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