The Secular Poetry of El'azar ben Ya'aqov ha-Bavli

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The Secular Poetry of El'azar ben Ya'aqov ha-Bavli is written by Wout van Bekkum and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9047418840 (ISBN 10) and 9789047418849 (ISBN 13).

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.