Joseph ben Solomon of Carcassonne

Joseph ben Solomon of Carcassonne (Hebrew: יוסף בר שלמה מקרקשונה, romanized: Yosef ben Shlomo mi-Karkasona; fl. 11th century) was a French Jewish liturgical poet.

He wrote a yotzer [he] beginning Odekha ki anafta (אודך כי אנפת) for the first Sabbath of Ḥanukkah. Joseph took material for this yotzer from the Scroll of Antiochus, the Book of Judith, the First Book of Maccabees and the Second Book of Maccabees, working it over in a payyetanic style. It is composed of verses of three lines each arranged in alphabetical order. The poem is mentioned by Rashi in his commentary on Ezekiel xxi. 18. It became an integral part of the Ashkenazi and Italian rites in the Middle Ages.[1][2][3]

## References[edit]

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schechter, Solomon; Peiginsky, A. (1904). "Joseph ben Solomon of Carcassonne". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 7\. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 272.

1. ^ Schirmann, Jefim (Hayyim) (2007). "Joseph ben Solomon of Carcassonne". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4 - via Encyclopedia.com.
2. ^ Shalev-Eyni, Sarit (2008). "Purity and Impurity: The Naked Woman Bathing in Jewish and Christian Art". In Kogman-Appel, Katrin; Meyer, Mati (eds.). Between Judaism and Christianity. The Medieval Mediterranean. Vol. 81\. Brill. pp. 192–193. doi:10.1163/ej.9789004171060.i-490.54. ISBN 978-90-04-17106-0.
3. ^ Shalev-Eyni, Sarit (2014). "Martyrdom and Sexuality: The Case of an Eleventh-Century Piyyut for Hanukkah and its Visual Interpretation in the Fifteenth Century". Conflict and Religious Conversation in Latin Christendom. Brepols Publishers. pp. 133–165. doi:10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.1.102013. ISBN 978-2-503-53514-2.

## External links[edit]

* Translation of Odekha ki anafta at the Open Siddur Project

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*[fl.]: floruit ('flourished' – known to have been active at a particular time or during a particular period)