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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / W.J. Van Bekkum -- Chapter One. Research History / W.J. Van Bekkum -- Chapter Two. EL’AZAR’S DIWAN / W.J. Van Bekkum -- Chapter Three. El’Azar Ha-Bavli: The Man And The Poet / W.J. Van Bekkum -- Chapter Four. Poetics And Poetry / W.J. Van Bekkum -- Chapter Five. Motifs And Themes / W.J. Van Bekkum -- Chapter Six. Conclusion / W.J. Van Bekkum -- Chapter Seven. Bibliography / W.J. Van Bekkum -- Chapter Eight. El’Azar’S Poems According To Ms Firkovicz, With Commentaries / W.J. Van Bekkum -- Chapter Nine . Appendix I: El‘Azar’S Poems According To Ms Ena 881, With Variant Readings According To Brody’S Edition / W.J. Van Bekkum -- Chapter Ten. APPENDIX II: PIYYUTIM BY EL’AZAR BEN HALFON HAKOHEN ON THE BASIS OF MS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY T-S MISC. 24.59 / W.J. Van Bekkum -- Chapter Eleven. Indices / W.J. Van Bekkum.