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Yannai. ; Israel Davidson; Louis Ginzberg : MAHAZOR YANAI: KE-FI MAH SHE-NIMTSA MI-MENU BA-GENIZAH ASHER BE-MITSRAYIM BE-HOSAFAT PIYUTE YANAI HA-AHERIM [AUTHOR INSCRIBED]

New York; Bet Midrash Ha-Rabanim Asher Ba-'amerika,, 1919

Original Cloth. 8vo. IV, 55, XLIX pages. 24 cm. First edition. Parallel Hebrew text and English translation. Added title page: Mahzor Yannai, a liturgical work of the 7th century edited from Genizah fragments with notes and introduction by Israel Davidson and additional notes by Louis Ginzberg. Texts and studies of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; volume 6. Inscribed by Israel Davidson in script on title page. “Yannai, liturgical poet, one of the principal representatives of the old Palestinian piyyut. … Davidson's publications opened new horizons for research into Yannai. In 1910 he found a Genizah fragment with quotations and beginnings of poems from the 'Mahzor Yannai'; this established the existence of a greater poetic work of Yannai's. In 1919 he found in some Greek-Hebrew genizah, fragment palimpsests (published by F. C. Burkitt in Fragments of the Book of Kings (1897) , and by C. Taylor in Hebrew-Greek Cairo Genizah Palimpsests, 1900) some of Yannai's kerovot which were thought lost, and which he later published with notes by L. Ginzberg (Mahzor Yannai (1919) ) . In 1928 Davidson found – following a suggestion by Brody – three other poems by Yannai among the Genizah fragments in the Bodleian Library: he published them in Genizah Studies (vol. 3, 1928) . ” (EJ 2008) . Israel Davidson, (1870–1939) , “scholar of medieval Hebrew literature. ... Mahzor Yannai (1919) , published from Greek palimpsests, Davidson recognizing Yannai 's piyyut in the superimposed writing. ” (EJ 2008) Contains signature of previous owner on endpage, Rabbi Mordecai L. Brill, dated 1936; the year that Brill was ordained at the rabbinical school of the Jewish Theological Seminary (Biographical note in Mordecai L. Brill Papers at JTS) . Subjects: Piyutim. Hebrew – Manuscripts. Genizah. Light wear to cloth, overall very clean and fresh. Very good condition. (RAB-55-50)

(xt) Yannai. ; Israel Davidson; Louis Ginzberg : MAHAZOR YANAI: KE-FI MAH SHE-NIMTSA MI-MENU BA-GENIZAH ASHER BE-MITSRAYIM BE-HOSAFAT PIYUTE YANAI HA-AHERIM [AUTHOR INSCRIBED]

New York; Bet Midrash Ha-Rabanim Asher Ba-'amerika,, 1919

Original Cloth. 8vo. IV, 55, XLIX pages. 24 cm. First edition. Parallel Hebrew text and English translation. Added title page: Mahzor Yannai, a liturgical work of the 7th century edited from Genizah fragments with notes and introduction by Israel Davidson and additional notes by Louis Ginzberg. Texts and studies of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; volume 6. Inscribed by Israel Davidson in script on title page. “Yannai, liturgical poet, one of the principal representatives of the old Palestinian piyyut. … Davidson's publications opened new horizons for research into Yannai. In 1910 he found a Genizah fragment with quotations and beginnings of poems from the 'Mahzor Yannai'; this established the existence of a greater poetic work of Yannai's. In 1919 he found in some Greek-Hebrew genizah, fragment palimpsests (published by F. C. Burkitt in Fragments of the Book of Kings (1897) , and by C. Taylor in Hebrew-Greek Cairo Genizah Palimpsests, 1900) some of Yannai's kerovot which were thought lost, and which he later published with notes by L. Ginzberg (Mahzor Yannai (1919) ) . In 1928 Davidson found – following a suggestion by Brody – three other poems by Yannai among the Genizah fragments in the Bodleian Library: he published them in Genizah Studies (vol. 3, 1928) . ” (EJ 2008) . Israel Davidson, (1870–1939) , “scholar of medieval Hebrew literature. ... Mahzor Yannai (1919) , published from Greek palimpsests, Davidson recognizing Yannai 's piyyut in the superimposed writing. ” (EJ 2008) Contains signature of previous owner on endpage, Rabbi Mordecai L. Brill, dated 1936; the year that Brill was ordained at the rabbinical school of the Jewish Theological Seminary (Biographical note in Mordecai L. Brill Papers at JTS) . Subjects: Piyutim. Hebrew – Manuscripts. Genizah. Ex-library with usual markings. Light wear to cloth, overall very clean and fresh. Very good condition. (RAB-55-50A)

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