Scholars of Piyyut

Scholars of Jewish liturgical poetry

Piyyut is Jewish liturgical poetry, in Hebrew or occasionally Aramaic, composed from the fifth century CE through the end of the thirteenth century CE, and to some extent even well beyond then.[citation needed]

Since the 19th century, academic scholars have studied piyyut, using modern methods of history, philology, and other types of analysis. This page is a list of such scholars.[citation needed]

* Leopold Zunz (1794–1886)[citation needed]
* Samuel David Luzzatto, known as Shadal, the acronym of his initials (1800–1865)[citation needed]
* Ḥayyim Brody (1868–1942)[citation needed]
* Daniel Goldschmidt (1895–1972)[citation needed]
* Menahem Zulay (1901–1954)[citation needed]
* Hayyim Schirmann (1904–1981)[citation needed]
* Zvi Meir Rabinovitz (1908–1991)[citation needed]
* Aharon Mirsky (1914–2001)[citation needed]
* Joseph Marcus [citation needed]
* Yisrael Levin (born 1924)[citation needed]
* Ezra Fleischer (1928–2006)[citation needed]
* Jonah Fraenkel (1928–2012)[citation needed]
* Menahem Schmelzer (born 1934)[citation needed]
* Joseph Yahalom (born 1941)[citation needed]
* Yosef Tobi (born 1942)[citation needed]
* Ephraim Hazan (born 1943)[citation needed]
* Tova Rosen[citation needed]
* Binyamin Bar-Tikva[citation needed]
* Shulamit Elizur (born 1955)[citation needed]
* Tova Beeri[citation needed]
* Avraham Fraenkel (born 1959)[citation needed]
* Elisabeth Hollender[citation needed]
* Wout van Bekkum (born 1954)[1]
* Naoya Katsumata[citation needed]
* Sarah Cohen[citation needed]

## References

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1. ^ "Wout van Bekkum Officier in de Orde van Oranje Nassau" (in Dutch). University of Groningen. 24 April 2020. Archived from the original on 16 May 2020.