Abraham bar Hillel

Abraham bar Hillel (Hebrew: אברהם בר הלל; fl. late 12th century) was an Egyptian Hebrew-language poet whose works were discovered in 1896 in the Cairo Geniza. He wrote the Megillah Zutta ('The Scroll of Zuta') in elegant rimed prose, narrating the downfall of a contemporary Egyptian Jewish leader.[1] As a prologue and an epilogue, he added poems which show their author to have been a skilful versifier. This work was completed in 1176.[2]

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Ginzberg, Louis (1901). "Abraham bar Hillel". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 1\. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 108.

1. ^ Franklin, Arnold E. (2012). This Noble House: Jewish Descendants of King David in the Medieval Islamic East. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0812206401.
2. ^ Kaufmann, D. (October 1896). "The Egyptian Historian and Poet Abraham Bar Hillel". The Jewish Quarterly Review. 9 (1): 168–170\. doi:10.2307/1449964. JSTOR 1449964.

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