A HEBREW ELEGY

The purpose of this paper is to bring under your notice a Kinnah, or Lamentation, bearing on Anglo-Jewish history, which, though referred to by Zunz, and published some years ago by Dr. Berliner in the Sammelband of the Mekize Nirdamim III. (cp. also Id., vol. iv. p. 39), has not as yet received the attention it deserves. The Lamenta? tion seems to have been once in general use among the Franco-German Jews, for it occurs in many of the prayer-books and collections of elegies used in this rite. I had myself the opportunity of collating my copy with three codices, extant in the libraries of Rome, Turin, and Cambridge. But it is the MS. in the Vatican Library that con? tains some features which may prove of interest to this Society.

This Codex, bearing the pressmark 312, and representing a small folio of 81 parchment leaves, opens with a title-page

Written by

S.Schechter

Published in

Volume 1

1893

Other articles within the volume

• JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. REPORT, 1893-94 [etc.]
• THE DEBTS AND HOUSES OF THE JEWS OF HEREFORD IN 1290
• LITTLE ST. HUGH OF LINCOLN. RESEARCHES IN HISTORY, ARCHÆOLOGY, AND LEGEND
• CRYPTO-JEWS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH
• A HOMAGE TO MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL
• THE DOMUS CONVERSORUM
• A HEBREW ELEGY
• A PLEA FOR ANGLO-JEWISH HISTORY, Inaugural Address delivered at the first meeting of the society, November 11th, 1893
• Anglo-Judaica in the Catalogue of the British Museum Hebrew Manuscripts
• The Northampton “Donum” of 1194
• The Lehman—Goldsmid Litigation
• “Theodore Cyphon.”
• Jews and the Coral Trade
• The Netherbury Tombstone
• Passes Issued to Jews in the Period 1689 to 1696
• Colonial Commerce
• Mrs. Brydges Willyams and Benjamin Disraeli
• Maria Fernandez de Carvajal
• Extracts from the Close Rolls, 1289—1368
• Charles Dickens and Eliza Davis
• A Petition from Haslemere in 1753
• The Bodleian Bowl
• PREFACE.