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David Raphael ben Abraham Polido
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
Satirist; flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His name, and the factthat his work was printed in Leghorn, suggest that he was an Italian; but Somerhausen reads 
(Polonya [?]) instead of 
; whereas Steinschneider interprets it as "Fulda." David wrote "Zikron Purim" (Remembrance of Purim), a parody on the piyyuṭim for the Feast of Purim, followed by a testament of Haman, a poem full of coarse jokes, but a good imitation of the Sephardic piyyuṭim (Leghorn, 1703). Delitzsch gives 1736 as the date of its publication.
Bibliography:- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 855;
- idem, Jew. Lit. p. 245;
- Somerhausen, in Orient, col. 181;
- Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 3:110;
- Delitzsch, Gesch. der Jüd. Poesie, p. 82.
G.
M. Sel.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'David Raphael ben Abraham Polido'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/d/david-raphael-ben-abraham-polido.html. 1901.