| The Secular Poetry of El'azar Ben Ya'aqov Ha-Bavli: Baghdad, Thirteenth Century on the Basis of Manuscript Firkovicz Heb. Iia, 210.1 Contributor(s): Van Bekkum, Wout (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004147187 ISBN-13: 9789004147188 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Language: Hebrew Published: December 2006 Annotation: A critical edition with introduction and commentaries of the poetry of Elazar ha-Bavli (Baghdad, 13th century). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Religion | Judaism - General - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical |
| Dewey: 892.412 |
| LCCN: 2006051767 |
| Series: Études Sur Le Judaïsme Médiéval |
| Physical Information: 350 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |