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Elijah ben Shemaiah
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
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Italian rabbi and liturgical poet; lived at Bari in the twelfth century. He was one of the teachers of Samuel b. Naṭronai; and his signature, with those of many other rabbis, is appended to a responsum found in Samuel's novellæ on Maimonides ("Yad," Ishut, 23:14). Elijah b. Shemaiah is especially known as a composer of hymns. Besides a "reshut" to Johanan's "Ḳerobot" for Yom Kippur, Elijah composed a great number of seliḥot. Zunz ("Literaturgesch." pp. 244-246) enumerates no less than thirty-six, arranged either in the alphabetical or in the reversed alphabetical order, and giving the acrostic of his name.
Bibliography:
- Zunz, Literaturgesch. pp. 139, 244-246;
- idem, G. V. p. 393;
- idem, S. P. p. 206;
- Michael, Or ha-Ḥayyim, No. 412;
- Landshuth, 'Ammude, ha-'Abodah, p. 17.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Elijah ben Shemaiah'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/e/elijah-ben-shemaiah.html. 1901.
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Elijah ben Shemaiah'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/e/elijah-ben-shemaiah.html. 1901.
