02857nam 2200613Ia 450 991045640750332120200520144314.00-8173-8329-8(CKB)2550000000019454(EBL)547630(OCoLC)689995678(SSID)ssj0000457119(PQKBManifestationID)12143434(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000457119(PQKBWorkID)10409721(PQKB)11221732(MiAaPQ)EBC547630(OCoLC)966769088(MdBmJHUP)muse9132(Au-PeEL)EBL547630(CaPaEBR)ebr10408240(EXLCZ)99255000000001945420070914d1983 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBulgaria's synagogue poets[electronic resource] the Kastoreans /by Leon J. WeinbergerCritical ed.Tuscalossa, AL University of Alabama Press19831 online resource (194 p.)Judaic StudiesPoems.0-8173-5623-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-175) and index.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.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.Judaic studies series.Hebrew poetryHebrew literatureElectronic books.Hebrew poetry.Hebrew literature.296.4Weinberger Leon J622672Newlin Nick865840MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456407503321Bulgaria's synagogue poets2453832UNINA