Benjamin Ben Joab (Called Also De Synagoga, According To Zunz)

Payyeṭan; lived at Montalcino in the fourteenth century. His printed poems are: (1) A metrical introduction to the "Nishmat" for Passover. Every strophe of this poem has ten lines of seven syllables. (2) A seliḥah of five strophes, with a refrain ending with the words  ("Oh, give us prosperity").

Bibliography:

  * Zunz, Literaturgesch. p. 365;
  * Landshuth, Ammude ha-'Abodah, p. 17.



L. G. I. Br.