Israel Najara
Israel Nadschara (also: Israel Nagara , Israel Ben Moses Nadschara ; * 1555 in Safed , † 1628 in Gaza ) was a Jewish-liturgical and secular poet, rabbi and Lurian Kabbalist .
Works
- Najara's letters, secular poems, epigrams make up the work entitled Meme Yisrael
- Mesaḥeḳet ha-Tebel (Safed, 1587), a poem about the nothingness of the world
- Shoḥaṭe ha-Yeladim (Amsterdam, 1718), poetry
- Ketubbat Yisrael (1794), hymn in the Kabbalistic style
- A collection of hymns published by MH Friedländer (Vienna, 1858) under the title Pizmonim
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| SURNAME | Najara, Israel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nagara, Israel; Najara, Israel Ben Moses |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jewish scholar and Kabbalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1555 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Safed |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1628 |
| Place of death | Gaza |