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Sufganiyot


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    • Espogim
    • Ponchiks
    • Ponṭshḳes
    • Sefganim
    • Sifganim
    • Sofganim
    • Sofganin
    • Sufganin
    • Sofganiyot
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    • found: Work cat: Sefer ʻEmeḳ ha-sufganim, December 2019:content (work discusses issues in Jewish law that arise in connection with eating sufganiyot and the significance in Jewish religious thought of consuming sufganiyot on Hanukkah) (DLC)2019454497
    • found: Eng. Wikipedia, viewed on 09 March 2020:(hdg.: Sufganiyah; Hebrew; plural: sufganiyot; a round jelly doughnut eaten in Israel and around the world on the Jewish festival of Hanukkah The doughnut is deep-fried, filled with jam or custard, and then topped with powdered sugar; On Hanukkah, Jews observe the custom of eating fried foods in commemoration of the miracle associated with the Temple oil. The tradition of eating deep-fried pastries on Hanukkah was considered ancient even in the time of the 12th-century rabbi Maimonides, whose father, Rabbi Maimon ben Yosef, wrote that "one must not make light of the custom of eating sofganim [fried fritters] on Chanukah. It is a custom of the Kadmonim [the ancient ones]"; The Hebrew word sufganiyah is a neologism for pastry, based on the Talmudic words sofgan and sfogga, which refer to a "spongy dough"; Among Polish Jews ... these doughnuts were known as ponchiks)
    • found: Hebrew Wikipedia, viewed on 16 March 2020:(hdg.: Sufganiyah; mentioned in Mishnah [Ḥalah 1:4, and elsewhere] as sifganim/sefganim/sufganim/sofganim/sufganin/sofganin [depending on MS and vocalization]; referred to as espog or espogim in the poems of Bialik; in Yiddish called ponṭshḳes)
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    • 2020-03-09: new
    • 2021-08-19: revised
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