German Masorite and liturgical poet; flourished in the first half of the thirteenth century. He was the author of a long acrostic poem on the accents, with a commentary. Joseph composed also liturgical poems, among which were: and , found in the French manuscript Maḥzor of 1278; a dirge beginning with and a seliḥah beginning with , on the martyrs of Fulda.
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