Joseph Ben Kalonymus Ha-Naḳdan

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.

Bibliography:

  * Zunz, Literaturgesch. p. 335;
  * idem, Z. G. p. iii.;
  * Landshuth, 'Ammude ha-'Abodah, p. 95;
  * Steinschneider, Jewish Literature, p. 139.



G. I. Br.