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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781120503321

Autore

Weinberger Leon J

Titolo

Bulgaria's synagogue poets : the Kastoreans / / Leon J. Weinberger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa : , : University of Alabama Press, , 1983

ISBN

0-8173-8329-8

Edizione

[Critical edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 pages)

Collana

Judaic Studies

Altri autori (Persone)

NewlinNick

Disciplina

296.4

Soggetti

Hebrew poetry

Hebrew literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Poems.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-175) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Hebrew section -- Introduction -- The characteristics of the Kastorean prayer book -- A. Kastorean beliefs and opinions -- 1. Practices in the month of Elul and the Ten Days of Repentance -- 2. On prayers to intermediaries -- 3. Messianic expectations and "return to Zion" movements -- B. The influence of the Hispanic Hebrew poets on Kastorean prosody -- C. Linguistic innovations -- Notes to the introduction -- Selections from the Kastorean poets -- The uses of metonymy in Kastorean poetry -- Index to the poems -- Bibliography -- English section.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first in-depth study of three 11th- to 12th-century poets from Balkan Byzantium. Included are all of the known works by Moses b. Hiyya, Joseph b. Jacob Qalai, and Isaac b. Judah, collected from rare manuscripts and printed editions and from Geniza collections at Oxford and Cambridge. These works provide the evidence that the Balkan synagogue poets favored distinctive literary forms even as they show the strong influence of the Hispanic-Hebrew writers. Completing the volume are indexes of rabbinic, Aramaic, and payyetanic usages and tables of metonymical terms.