This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
I accept this policy
Find out more here
Research History
Brill’s MyBook program is exclusively available on BrillOnline Books and Journals. Students and scholars affiliated with an institution that has purchased a Brill E-Book on the BrillOnline platform automatically have access to the MyBook option for the title(s) acquired by the Library. Brill MyBook is a print-on-demand paperback copy which is sold at a favorably uniform low price.
Chapter Summary
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, several famous scholars such as Leopold Dukes, Adolph Neubauer, Elkanan Nathan Adler and Samuel Abraham (Abba) Poznanski studied a corpus of poems, of which the acrostics caused these scholars to attribute the authorship of the poems to a certain Elʿazar or Elʿazar ben Yaʿaqov. Two major MSS with a considerable number of poems form a comprehensive dīwān, but these were only exploited for the publication of only scattered fragments and excerpts. Al-Ḥarizi’s derogatory comments about the composers he encountered in the East is symbolic of a larger issue concerning the study of medieval Hebrew poetry in later times.
Keywords: Adolph Neubauer; Elʿazar ben Yaʿaqov; Elkanan Nathan Adler; Leopold Dukes; medieval Hebrew poetry; Samuel Abraham
- View table of contents for this E-Book
-
Please wait...
back to top