Caslari, Joshua

Liturgical poet; lived at Avignon about 1540. He wrote four elegies which are inserted in the manuscript Maḥzor of Avignon; his signature is found at the end of the last. Joshua Caslari is in all probability identical with the Jozué du Cayslar, named with Ferussol Pampelona, in a document dated June 15, 1558, as member-elect of the council of the Jewish community of Avignon.

Bibliography:

  * Zunz, Literaturgesch. p. 577;
  * De Maulde, in Rev. Et. Juives, x. 163;
  * Gross, Gallia Judaica, p. 621.



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