ELIJAH BEN MORDECAI:
By: Richard Gottheil, H. Brody
Payyeṭan of the eleventh century, possibly a native of Italy. Of his poetic productions a "ḳerobah" for the Minḥah of the Day of Atonement (
) is extant in the German-Polish liturgy. Eliezer ben Nathan wrote a commentary on Elijah's piyyuṭim.
Bibliography:
- Zunz, Literaturgesch. p. 142;
- Landshuth, 'Ammude ha-'Abodah, p. 15;
- Michael, Or ha-Ḥayyim, p. 182.
