Khanuka

Khanuka

1. Alternative form of Hanukkah.
   • 1947 November 26, Evelyn Rothstein, “Eastside Journal’s Column of Clubs-Organizations”, in Al S. Waxman, editor, Eastside Journal, 13th year, number 39, Los Angeles, Calif., →OCLC, page 7, column 3:

     A Khanuka Latke party will be given by the Senior Council of the Menorah Center on Sunday evening, December 6, in the Banquet room of the Center.

   • [1986 April 28, J[onathan] J[eremy] Goldberg, “Anyway you spell it, it still means ‘terror’”, in The Central New Jersey Home News, New Brunswick, N.J., →OCLC, page A9, column 1:

     How do you spell “terror”? Alert readers have been troubled by that very question over the last few weeks, as they’ve watched Libya’s Col. Moammar Khadafy dominate the headlines. […] The transliterator’s first dilemma, then, is “Hanukkah” vs. “Chanuka,” or convenience for the reader vs. faithfulness to the original. Aha, you say. “Khadafy” as in “Khanuka.” No, we’re not there yet.]

   • 1999 November, Klara Ilana Wistinetzki, Justin Ben-Adam (Rudelson), “Holidays & Festivals”, in Hebrew Phrasebook, Footscray, Vic.: Lonely Planet Publications, →ISBN, “Time, Dates & Festivals” section, page 172:

     While many in the West see the candle-lighting holiday of Khanuka as the Jewish alternative to Christmas, this eight-day holiday in which Jews exchange gifts actually began as Judaism’s most revolutionary holiday. Khanuka begins on the 25th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev (November–December), and is observed to commemorate the rededication of the Temple after it was desecrated in 165BC.

   • 2013, Ben Nuttall-Smith, “A Poem for Gaza”, in A Moment in Eternity, New Westminster, B.C.: Silver Bow Publishing, →ISBN, page 69:

     Your father was the Rabbi, / Your Mama my best friend. / We went to school together, / And both sang Khanuka songs.