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See also:JUDAH See also:BEN See also:SOLOMON See also:HARIZI (13th cent.) , called also AL-See also:HARIZI, a See also:Spanish See also:Hebrew poet and traveller . He translated,, from the Arabic to Hebrew some of the See also:works of See also:Maimonides (q.v.) and also of the Arab poet Iiariri . His own most consider-able See also:work was the Tahkemoni, composed between 1218 and 1220 . This is written in Hebrew in unmetrical rhymes, in what is commonly termed " rhymed See also:prose." It is a See also:series of humorous episodes, witty verses, and See also:quaint applications of Scriptural texts . The episodes are See also:bound together by the presence of thebrought to perfection the See also:art of applying Hebrew to See also:secular See also:satire, but he was also a brilliant See also:literary critic and his makame on the Andalusian Hebrew poets is a fruitful source of See also:information . See, on the Tahkemoni, Kaempf, Nicht-andalusische Poesie andalusischer Dichter (See also:Prague, 1858) . In that work a considerable See also:section of the Tahkemoni is translated into See also:German . (I . |
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