Thesaurus of Mediaeval Hebrew Poetry in 4 volumes by Israel Davidson, Vol. I (letter א)

488 pp., The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York 1924.

“Rapoport, Zunz, Luzzatto and Landshuth have indeed done herculean work in the field of liturgy, yet every student of mediaeval Hebrew poetry, religious as well as secular, is still confronted with the lack of a proper source book, which should contain not only a record of the poems, but also detailed information where these poems may be found. Such a source book should, moreover, record not only the religious poetry but all compositions that have a poetic form, whether they be Piyyutim or epigrams, eulogies or satires, or even colophons…”

From “Preface” by Israel Davidson

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