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Kalonymus Nasi

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

Provençal liturgical poet; flourished at Beaucaire in the middle of the thirteenth century. He was the author of a liturgical poem beginning for the Sabbath preceding the Feast of Passover ("Shabbat ha-Gadol"), in which are given all the ritual laws to be observed at Passover. The poem contains thirty-nine alphabetically arranged strophes, each of which begins with a Biblical verse and concludes with the pizmon . A dirge on Kalonymus' death is found in the diwans of Abraham Bedersi.

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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Kalonymus Nasi'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​k/kalonymus-nasi.html. 1901.