David Raphael ben Abraham Polido

Jewish satirist in the 17th and 18th centuries

David Raphael ben Abraham Polido (Hebrew: דוד רפאל בן אברהם פולידו, romanized: Daṿid Refaʼel ben Avraham Polido; fl. 17th and 18th centuries) was a Jewish satirist. He wrote Zikhron Purim (lit. 'Remembrance of Purim'), a parody on the piyyutim for Purim, followed by a testament of Haman, a poem full of coarse jokes, but a good imitation of the Sephardic piyyutim (Livorno, 1703).^[1]^{[note 1]}

His name, and the fact that his work was printed in Livorno, suggest that he was an Italian; but Somerhausen reads פולניא‎ ('Polonya' or 'Polnia') instead of Polido, whereas Steinschneider interprets it as 'Fulda.'^[3]

Notes

^ Franz Delitzsch gives 1736 as the date of its publication.^[2]

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gottheil, Richard; Seligsohn, Max (1903). "David Raphael ben Abraham Polido". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 467.

^ Fürst, Julius (1863). Bibliotheca Judaica: Bibliographisches Handbuch der gesammten jüdischen Literatur (in German). Vol. 3. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann. p. 110.
^ Delitzsch, Franz (1836). Zur Geschichte der jüdischen Poësie: vom Abschluß der heiligen Schriften Alten Bundes bis auf die neueste Zeit (in German). Leipzig: Tauchnitz. p. 82.^{[dead link]}
^ Steinschneider, Moritz (1852–60). Catalogus Librorum Hebræorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana (in Latin). Berlin: A. Friedlaender. p. 855.