Judah al-Charisi

Juda al-Charisi (also Jehuda ben Solomo al-Charisi ; * around 1165 or 1170 probably in Toledo ; † around 1225 or 1235 in Aleppo ) was a well-traveled Spanish-Jewish poet and translator from Arabic into Hebrew .

Among other things, he wrote the sefer tachkemoni (“Book of the Clever” - 50 Makamen in dialogue form) and translated Maimonides ' “ Leader of the Undecided ” into Hebrew. His works also had a certain influence on the Christian world through subsequent Latin and Spanish translations.

literature

Primary texts

• Yehuda al Charisi ben Solomon: Tachkemoni. Assembly of wise men. Hebrew macaques. Edited by Armand Kaminka . Warsaw 1895-97.
• From the Tachkemoni (Makamen) of Jehuda ben Salomon al-Charisi, called Alchosni. Pp. 29-48. In: Poets from Spain's better days. Selection from the masterpieces of Jewish-Spanish poets, translated metrically and given notes by Prof. Dr. A. Sulzbach, 2nd enlarged and improved edition. Kauffmann, Frankfurt a. M. 1903
• The Tahkemoni of Judah Al-Harizi. An English Translation by Victor Emanuel Reichert. Jerusalem 1965-73.
• The Book of Taḥkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain. Translated, explicated, and annotated by David Simha Segal. London 2001. ISBN 1-87477-403-X
• Agostino Giustiniani / Augustinus Justinianus (ed.): Rabbi Mossei Aegyptii Dux seu Director dubitantum aut perplexorum. Paris 1520; Frankfurt: Minerva Journals 1964, ISBN 3-86598-129-1 (text basis: Hebrew translation of Juda al-Charisi; incorrect reprint of the first Latin translation of a medieval anonymus (around 1240); edited in the context of Erasmus )

Secondary literature

• Angel Sáenz-Badillos; Judit Targarona Borrás: Diccionario de autores judios (Sefarad. Siglos X-XV). Estudios de Cultura Hebrea 10. Córdoba 1988, pp. 133-135.
• Ch. [J.] Schirmann : תולדות השירה העברית בספרד הנוצרית ובדרום צרפת [ The History of Hebrew Poetry in Christian Spain and Southern France]. [Hebr.] Jerusalem 1997, pp. 145-221.
• Aharon Mirsky, Avrum Stroll, Angel Saenz-Badillos (2nd ed.), Hanoch Avenary :  AL ḤARIZI, JUDAH BEN SOLOMON. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica . 2nd Edition. Volume 1, Detroit / New York a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865929-9 , pp. 655-657 (English).

On the influence on the Christian world

• Wolfgang Kluxen : Research and texts on the history of the Latin Maimonides. Diss. Cologne 1951.
• Idem: literary history on the Latin Moses Maimonides. RThAM 21 (1954) 23-50.
• Idem: Rabbi Moyses (Maimonides): Liber de uno Deo benedicto. Misc. Med. 4 (1966) 167-182.
• Idem: The History of Maimonides in the Latin Occident. Ibid. 146-166.
• Georges Vajda : Un abregé chrétien du 'Guide des égarés'. Journal asiatique 248 (1960) 115-136.
• Görge K. Hasselhoff : Dicit Rabbi Moyses. Studies on the image of Moses Maimonides in the Latin West from the 13th to 15th centuries. Church history Dissertation Heidelberg 2003, EA Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2004, p. 400. ISBN 3-8260-2692-6 . ZA ibid. 2005, p. 404. ISBN 3-8260-2692-6 .

Web links

• Frederick de Sola Mendes:  Juda al-Charisi AL-ḤARIZI, JUDAH B. SOLOMON B. HOPHNI. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.
• "Alcharisi - who, I bet, / you are no less unknown ..." from Heinrich Heine's poem Jehuda ben Halevy on Wikisource