Achimaats ben Paltiel

Achimaʿats ben Palti'el ( Hebrew אֲחִימַעַץ בן פלטיאל, * 1017 in Capua ; † 1060 in Oria ) was a Jewish - liturgical poet and author of a valuable historical family chronicle.

Life

Achimaʿats was the offspring of a large family of scholars from Oria - his father worked as a doctor at the Lombard prince's court in Capua  - and wrote his family history in rhyming prose in the Megillat Achimaʿats ("Scroll of Achimaʿats") from the 9th century onwards. The period from 850 to 1054 is dealt with. His work is also an important source for the history of southern Italy, especially for the emirate of Bari .

Since his ancestors often played a leading role in the life of the Jewish communities, the small, but legendary script is also important as an early chronicle of Jewish life in the Middle Ages, especially as regards the relations between the Jewish communities of southern Italy and Palestine . He attributes the origins of the Jewish community in Oria and his own family to the Jewish prisoners who were deported to Italy by Titus after the Jewish War .

expenditure

• Cesare Colafemmina (ed. And translator): Aḥîmaʿaṣ Ben-Palṭî'ēl. Sēfer Yûḥasîn; libro delle discendenze; vicende di una famiglia ebraica di Oria nei secoli IX – XI . Cassano delle Murge 2001 (Hebrew and Italian text)
• Marcus Salzmann: The Chronicle of Ahimaaz ... New York 1924
• Robert Bonfil: History and Folklore in a Medieval Jewish Chronicle: The Family Chronicle of Aḥimaʿaz ben Paltiel . Leiden / Boston 2009, ISBN 978-90-04-17385-9

literature

• Leopold Zunz : Literary History of Synagogal Poetry , 1865
• David Kaufmann : Collected Writings , 1908–1915, Vol. III
• Isaak Markon: Achima'az ben Paltiel . In: Jewish Lexicon . Berlin 1927, vol. I.
• Horst Enzensberger : Achimaaz v. Oria . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , column 78 ... died after 1054.