שירי הקודש ליהודי קשטוריה /Shire ha-ḳodesh li-Yehude Ḳashṭoryah

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. Read more... 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. ʻarukh U-mugah ʻal Pi Kitve-yad U-defusim ʻim Hashlamot, Shinuye-nusḥaʾot, Beʾurim U-mavo Bi-yede Yehudah Leb Ṿainberger. Poems. Abstract In English. Title On Added T.p.: Bulgaria's Synagogue Poets, The Kastoreans. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 172-175.