Isaac Ben Solomon

Liturgical poet; lived in Germany in the first half of the fourteenth century; author of the seliḥah "Ani hu ha-Geber," on the martyrs of the persecutions of 1337, which Isaac had witnessed. The signature to this seliḥah includes the words "Yifraḥ Samak," which, according to Zunz, form a part of the poet's name.

Bibliography:

  * Zunz, Literaturgesch. p. 368;
  * idem, S. P. p. 368;
  * Revue Orientale, i. 279;
  * Landshuth, 'Ammude ha-'Abodah, p. 127;
  * text and transl. of "Ani hu ha-Geber" in Salfeld, Martyrologium, p. 347 (comp. p. 237).



G. I. Br.