Judah ben Abraham Zarko () was a 16th-century Greek Hebrew poet. Born at Rhodes, he lived for a few years at Salonika where he joined the ''Ḥakme ha-shir'' () literary circle. During a residence at Constantinople Zarko wrote his ''

maqama ''Maqāmah'' (مقامة, pl. ''maqāmāt'', مقامات, literally "assemblies") are an (originally) Arabic prosimetric literary genre which alternates the Arabic rhymed prose known as '' Saj‘'' with intervals of poetry in which rhetorical ...

'' ''Sefer leḥem Yehudah'' (Constantinople, 1560), which contains an allegory on the soul, metrical and non-metrical poems, and epigrams directed against Maimonides and Judah Sabara. A letter written by him to congratulate Joseph Hamon on his marriage is given at the beginning of the anonymously-compiled Hebrew style-book ''Sefer yefeh nof'', and some of his shorter poems were published by

Hirsch Edelmann Hirsch Edelmann (1805 – 20 November 1858) was a Russian Jewish author and editor. Born in Swislocz, in the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus), he was the son of a rabbinical scholar, and received a good Talmudical education, which he lat ...

in his ''Dibre ḥefetz'' (London, 1853).

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