Elijah Ben Mordecai

Payyeṭan of the eleventh century, possibly a native of Italy. Of his poetic productions a "ḳerobah" for the Minḥah of the Day of Atonement () is extant in the German-Polish liturgy. Eliezer ben Nathan wrote a commentary on Elijah's piyyuṭim.

Bibliography:

  * Zunz, Literaturgesch. p. 142;
  * Landshuth, 'Ammude ha-'Abodah, p. 15;
  * Michael, Or ha-Ḥayyim, p. 182.



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