Language:
Hungarian
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Évkönyv (Magyar Izraeliták Országos Képviselete)
Angaben zur Quelle:
1985-1991 (1991) 317-330
Keywords:
Jewish literature History and criticism
;
Hebrew literature
Abstract:
Hungarian Hebrew poetry was first written in 1494, after a blood libel in Nagyszombat; the first poem, by Yehoshua ben Chaim, commemorates the death of the Jewish martyrs. The last Hebrew elegies were written by Tzvi Steinmetz (Jair) in 1942, called "Gesharim" ("Bridges"); they deal with the Holocaust and the approaching tragedy of Hungarian Jewry. Antisemitism was always a theme in Hungarian Hebrew poetry. The blood libel in Tiszaeszlár was mentioned in several poems of 1882, by Simon Bacher and Shalom Kohn.
Note:
On themes in Hungarian Hebrew poetry from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
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