ELEAZAR BEN HALFON HA-KOHEN
- ELEAZAR BEN HALFON HA-KOHEN
- ELEAZAR BEN HALFON HA-KOHEN (12th–13th
century), Hebrew poet. Eleazar lived apparently in an Oriental country.
About 15 poems from his divan survived in the
cairo genizah , where his name usually appears as "Eleazar" or
"Eleazar ha-Kohen," but in one, as "Eleazar ben Ḥalfon ha-Kohen." One of
the poems is a panegyric to maimonides composed apparently during
the latter's lifetime. Eleazar, who seems to have been among the best of
the Oriental Hebrew paytanim, adopted the Sephardi style of
piyyut in its fullest detail. Many of his piyyutim
were attributed by copyists to thegreat poets of the Spanish era, and it
is possible perhaps that some of the poems of his time, signed "Eleazar
ha-Kohen," should be ascribed to him.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
A. Scheiber, in: Sinai, 35 (1954), 183–6; idem, in:
Sefer Ḥayyim Schirman (1970), 393–4; Ḥ. Schirmann,
Shirim Ḥadashim min ha-Genizah (1965), 106–16.
(Abraham David)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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