JEWISH-CHRISTIAN POLEMICS IN EARLY MODERN ITALY
Yehuda ben Eliezer (Leon) BRIEL (or Brielli) (1643-1722): Shirim nishlahu el yehudim she-omdim lehitnatztzer
Edition
One poem, addressed to Judah d' Anconah was published by J. Schirmann, Mivhar ha-shirah ha-ivrit be-Italyah (Anthologie der hebräischen Dichtung in Italien) (Berlin, 1934), 347. = The poem can be found in manuscript MOS 365, on daf 4v.
Manuscripts
The text is extant in two manuscripts:
- Moscow, Russian State Library, Günzburg Collection 211 (MOS RSL 211, seventeenth-eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 192r-197r
- Moscow, Russian State Library, Günzburg Collection 365 (MOS RSL 365, seventeenth-eighteenth-century Italian type handwriting), 1r-7r
Secondary Literature
- M.S. Ghirondi, Toledoth Gedole Yisrael u-Geone Italia (Trieste, 1853), 127 and 129 n. 7.
- M. Mortara, 'Leone Brielli', Il Corriere Israelitico I. (Trieste, 1862), 161-166.
- H. Grätz, Geschichte der Juden von den ältesten Zeiten bis auf die Gegenwart, 11. vols. (Leipzig, 1890-19083), 10:297, 329, 487, 488, 502.
- Jewish Encyclopedia Online Edition: Brieli, Judah Leon ben Eliezer
- Sh. Simonson, Toledot ha-Yehudim be-Dukkasut Mantovah, 2 vols. (Jerusalem, 1962-1964), 1:332 n. 427.
- S. Krauss, The Jewish-Christian Controversy: From the Earliest Time to 1789 (ed. W. Horbury; Tübingen, 1995), 107, 208-209.
- D. Bregman, A Bundle of Gold: Hebrew Sonnets from the Renaissance and the Baroque (Jerusalem and Beer Sheva, 1997), 479-480, 488.
- D. Bregman, 'Christians, Jews and Hebrew Sonets,' in Mauro Perani (ed): L'interculturalita dell'ebraismo (Ravenna, 2004), 220.
- Y. Horowitz, 'Briel, Judah ben Eliezer', Encyclopaedia Judaica, 22. vols. (Jerusalem, 2007), 4:181.
- A. Salah, La République des lettres Rabbins, crivains et médecins juifs en Italie au XVIIIe siecle (Leiden, 2007), 99-103.
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Research that enabled the preparation of this bibliography was sponsored by the Anniversary Fund of the National Bank of Austria (Jubiläumsfonds der Österreichischen Nationalbank, project number: 16099: "Jüdisch-christiliche Polemik: Akkulturation und Modernisierung")
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