Word: maccabeus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palestine this year, Christmas night was the eve of Hanukkah ("The Feast of Lights"), an eight-day celebration commemorating the great victories of Judas Maccabeus over the Syrians in 165 B.C. By Christmas Eve, the Israeli army was once again on the march, breaking the uneasy truce that had begun to settle on Palestine...
...concentration camps, ghettoes, banks, courtrooms, theaters and factories of Europe the Chosen People had assembled and had won their first great military victory since Judas Maccabeus* beat the Syrian Nicanor at Adasa 2,109 years...
...Glee Club under the direction of Harold Schmidt opened the concert with "Let Your Celestial Concerts All Unite" from the oratorio "Judas Maccabeus" by George Frederick Handel, rendered with the usual precision but without the usual roundness of tone. In the second number, "Gentle Johnny", and English folk song arranged for men's chorus, the tone was much better and the meaning of each line came out with the expressiveness, characteristic of the English type of melody. The best, however, of the first half of the program was "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence", and old French melody arranged...
...Atonal music is prohibited; Handel's Judas Maccabeus has become Hero and Work for Peace. Artists who have painted a family group showing fewer than four children may not use the word "family" in the title-which puts the Holy Family in its place...