Leon Modena’s Kinah Shemor

Leon Modena’s Kinah Shemor
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Publisher : Skenè. Texts and Studies
Total Pages : 142
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ISBN-10 : 9788846767349
ISBN-13 : 8846767349
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Download or read book Leon Modena’s Kinah Shemor written by Leon Modena and published by Skenè. Texts and Studies. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1584, shortly after his bar-mitzvah, the young Italian Jew Leon Modena (1571-1648) composed an eight-line poem so remarkable that it has never been rivalled in its own genre. Known as Kinah Shemor in Hebrew, Chi nasce muor in Italian, this elegy makes sense simultaneously in both languages. It stands at the head of a little-known tradition of short poems, fragments, and fragments of memories of short poems, often composed by Jews and operating at the borders between Hebrew and romance vernaculars, Jewish and Christian communities. More than merely bilingual or macaronic, for Modena the form seems to have existed somewhere between language and music. Yet for want of a formal name, this tradition has long slipped through the cracks of the critical canon. Leon Modena’s Kinah Shemor publishes the first critical edition and English translation of the poem to take into account all three of its primary witnesses. It places Kinah Shemor in Modena’s thought as a bridge between poetry and music and between Jewish and Christian religious communities, and describes the poem’s afterlife in relation to broader questions of genre theory, critical taxonomy, and the Christian study of Jewish literature in early modern Europe.


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