Judah ben Abraham Zarko ( Hebrew: יהודה בן אברהם זרקו) was a 16th-century Greek Hebrew poet. [1] Born at Rhodes, he lived for a few years at Salonika where he joined the Ḥakme ha-shir ( lit. 'Sages of Poetry') literary circle. [2]
During a residence at Constantinople Zarko wrote his maqama Sefer leḥem Yehudah (Constantinople, 1560), which contains an allegory on the soul, metrical and non-metrical poems, and epigrams directed against Maimonides and Judah Sabara. [3] [4] A letter written by him to congratulate Joseph Hamon on his marriage is given at the beginning of the anonymously-compiled Hebrew style-book Sefer yefeh nof, [5] [6] and some of his shorter poems were published by Hirsch Edelmann in his Dibre ḥefetz (London, 1853).
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Jacobs, Joseph; Broydé, Isaac (1906). "Zarḳo, Judah ben Abraham". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 638.
Judah ben Abraham Zarko ( Hebrew: יהודה בן אברהם זרקו) was a 16th-century Greek Hebrew poet. [1] Born at Rhodes, he lived for a few years at Salonika where he joined the Ḥakme ha-shir ( lit. 'Sages of Poetry') literary circle. [2]
During a residence at Constantinople Zarko wrote his maqama Sefer leḥem Yehudah (Constantinople, 1560), which contains an allegory on the soul, metrical and non-metrical poems, and epigrams directed against Maimonides and Judah Sabara. [3] [4] A letter written by him to congratulate Joseph Hamon on his marriage is given at the beginning of the anonymously-compiled Hebrew style-book Sefer yefeh nof, [5] [6] and some of his shorter poems were published by Hirsch Edelmann in his Dibre ḥefetz (London, 1853).
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Jacobs, Joseph; Broydé, Isaac (1906). "Zarḳo, Judah ben Abraham". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 638.