The Secular poetry of El'azar ben Ya'aqov ha-Bavli : : Baghdad, thirteenth century : on the basis of manuscript Firkovicz Heb. IIA, 210.I St. Petersburg / / edited and introduced by Wout Jac. van Bekkum.

• Superior document: Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval, t. 34
• TeilnehmendeR: Bekkum, Wout Jac. van.
• Place / Publishing House: ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval ; t. 34.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 67, 258 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Chapter One. Research History /; Chapter Two. EL’AZAR’S DIWAN /; Chapter Three. El’Azar Ha-Bavli: The Man And The Poet /; Chapter Four. Poetics And Poetry /; Chapter Five. Motifs And Themes /; Chapter Six. Conclusion /; Chapter Seven. Bibliography /; Chapter Eight. El’Azar’S Poems According To Ms Firkovicz, With Commentaries /; Chapter Nine . Appendix I: El‘Azar’S Poems According To Ms Ena 881, With Variant Readings According To Brody’S Edition /; Chapter Ten. APPENDIX II: PIYYUTIM BY EL’AZAR BEN HALFON HAKOHEN ON THE BASIS OF MS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY T-S MISC. 24.59 /; Chapter Eleven. Indices /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [61]-67) and index.
• ISBN: 128139680X; 9786611396800; 9047418840; 1435654781; 9047425464
• ISSN: 0169-815X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited and introduced by Wout Jac. van Bekkum.

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.