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The Secular Poetry of El'azar ben Ya'aqov ha-Bavli
Baghdad, Thirteenth Century on the basis of manuscript Firkovicz Heb. IIA, 210.1
Series: - Études sur le judaïsme médiéval, Volume: 34
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The collection of Elazar’s poetry is impressive and contains more than four hundred compositions with a striking preponderance of panegyrics, laments, homonymic poems, and epigrams. Elazar was strongly involved in promoting the Baghdadi-Jewish elite, dignified people who held high office in the city, either as government officials or as leaders of the Jewish community. This critical edition of a manuscript offers much literary and historical information about Baghdadi Jewry in the days before and during the Mongol invasion of 1258.
Wout Jac. van Bekkum is Professor of Semitic Languages and Cultures at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. He has published on Medieval Hebrew poetry and linguistics.
Hebrew studies, Arabic studies, Jewish studies, Islamic studies, History of the Middle East, History of Iraq.