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Bidding Information
Lot #    25851
Auction End Date    2/16/2010 10:23:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Shirah Hadasha
Title (Hebrew)    שירה חדשה
Author    [Ladino - First Ed.] R. Hezkia Samuel Behor Tarika
City    Izmir (Symrna)
Publication Date    1861
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. [1], 3, 5-18 ff., 16 mo., 156:98 mm., light age staining, wide margins. A very good copy bound in contemporary wrappers and later boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Poetry in honor of righteous men who have passed on. Each song is preceded with a short Hebrew introduction. The great popularity of poetry and music among the Sephardic Jews dates back to the tenth century, when, under the Muslim rulers, the Jews finally found religious and intellectual freedom, a freedom they had not experienced in Babylonia (from where they had come to Spain shortly before). The upper and middle-class Jews held important public positions, some of them were even ministers or army leaders, and thus were exposed to and formed part of the cultural life at the Spanish/Arabian courts, where poetry, reading and music were the most common forms of entertainment. Often wealthy patrons would hire Hebrew poets to sing their praise, to write occasional poems, e.g. on a newborn, on the death of a relative or on the pleasures of a good glass of wine, and to perform or sing their poems in the courts. Thus Hebrew poetry, songs, and music became and has remained an important part of both the religious and the social life of Sephardic Jews.
          
Paragraph 2    שירים ותשבחות לכבוד צדיקים שוכני עפר בלשון לעז [לאדינו] לעורר ... בתשובה ... חיברו ... ר' חזקיה שמואל טאריקה דמ[תקרי] בכור נ"ע ...

בראש כל שיר דברים בעברית על תוכנו וזמן אמירתו.
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0133797; Yaari, Izmir 115
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Greece-Turkey:    Checked
  
Subject
Liturgy:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Ladino, some Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica