Moses Najara II was a Jewish poet, son of
Israel Najara
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
, whom he succeeded as rabbi of
Gaza. His poetry is praised by his contemporaries, but none of his poems is now extant.
Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography
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Leser Landshuth
Leser Landshuth (15 January 1817 – 23 March 1887) was a German Jewish liturgiologist.
He went to Berlin as a youth to study Jewish theology, and there he became acquainted with Leopold Zunz and Abraham Geiger, the latter of whom was then stayin ...
, 'Ammude ha-'Abodah;
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David Conforte David Conforte (c. 1618 – c. 1685) () was a Hebrew literary historian born in Salonica, author of the literary chronicle known by the title ''Ḳore ha-Dorot.''
Biography
Conforte came of a family of scholars. His early instructors were rabbis ...
, Ḳore ha-Dorot;
* Dukes, Gesch. der Neuhebräischen Poesie;
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Moritz Steinschneider, Polemische Literatur, 1868, p. 350;
* Magyar Zsidó Szemle, 1885.
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External links
Jewish Encyclopedia article on NAJARA
Jewish poets
Sephardi rabbis in Ottoman Palestine
People from Gaza City
Year of death missing
Year of birth missing
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