Sufganiyot

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Name (Hebrew)

סופגניות

Name (Latin)

Sufganiyot

Name (Arabic)

سوفغنية

Other forms of name

Espogim

Ponchiks

Ponṭshḳes

Sefganim

Sifganim

Sofganim

Sofganin

Sufganin

Sofganiyot

Wikidata: Q2599893

Library of congress: sh2020000648

Sources of Information

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)
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)
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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