Studies in Medieval Jewish Poetry

Alessandro Guetta, PhD (1993) in Philosophy, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, is professor of Jewish Thought at Inalco, Paris. He has published extensively on the intellectual history of Italian Judaism, including Philosophy and Kabbalah. His latest work is Elijah Benamozegh and the Reconciliation of Western Thought and Jewish Esotericism (SUNY Press, 2008).

Masha Itzhaki, PhD (1979) Tel Aviv University, teaches Hebrew literature in INALCO Paris. She is the author of many books and papers on Hebrew medieval poetry and about Israeli literature. Her books include Jardin d'Eden, Jardin d'Espagne, (BNF & Sueil, Paris 1993), Yehuda Ha-Levi, from Toledo to Jerusalem, (Albin Michel, Paris 1997), Poésie hébraïqe amoureuse, (Somogy, Paris 2000).

CONTENTS
Introduction
PART 1: Poetry as Handicraft
Ars Poetica in Medieval Hebrew Secular Poetry: Same Symptoms, Different Diagnosis
Nili Shalev
Kitāb al-Muḥāḍarah wa-al-mudhākarah by Moshe ibn Ezra Compared with Kitāb al-Badīʻ by Ibn al-Muʻtazz
Yosef Tobi
PART 2: Themes of Hebrew Poetry in the Muslim World and Christian Iberia
Collections of Homonym Poems in Medieval Hebrew Literature
Judith Dishon
Changing Landscapes of the Hebrew Rhymed Prose Narrative
Jonathan P. Decter
On Books and Poems: Poetic Exchanges in Hebrew Poetry in Al-Andalus
Aurora Salvatierra
Criticism of the Estates in Judah al-Ḥarizi’s Book of Taḥkemoni and in European-Christian Literature of the Thirteenth Century: Affinity and Distinction
Ayelet Oettinger
PART 3: Ashkenaz, Italy: Literary Genres Reconsidered
Single Zulatot in Ashkenaz
Elisabeth Hollender
A Contextual Analysis of the Jewish Italian Elegy at the Time of the Ghettos (Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries)
Asher Salah
PART 4.1: From East to West, Monographical Studies: The Muslim East
Some Remarks on Judeo-Arabic Poetical Works: An Arabic Poem by Moshe Darʻi (ca. 1180–ca. 1240)
Arie Schippers
The Research History of the Baghdadi-Jewish Poet Elʻazar ha-Bavli (Thirteenth Century)
Wout van Bekkum
PART 4.2: From East to West, Monographical Studies: The Christian Aragon
The Literary World of Shelomoh Bonafed
Angel Sáenz-Badillos
Critical Editions of the Poetical Correspondence between Vidal Abenvenist and Solomon de Piera
Judit Targarona Borrás and Tirza Vardi
PART 5: Judah Halevy: In the Laboratory of the Poet/Thinker
“I Asked about a Ḥasid, Not a Ruler”: The Ḥasid as a Ruler in the Poetry of Rabbi Judah Halevi
Ephraim Hazan
Le Surnom Amoureux dans la Poésie Liturgique de Pessaḥ de Judah Halevi
Eric Dahan