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).
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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.
- ^ Yeffet, Revital (2003). "The Desired Beautiful Princess: Yehudah Zarko of Rhodes and his Literary Work 'Lehem Yehudah'". In Pomeroy, Hilary (ed.). Proceedings of the 13th British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies. Leiden: E.J. Brill. pp. 167–176. ISBN 9780904188295. OCLC 789260072.
- ^ Tamani, Giuliano (2004). La letteratura ebraica medievale: secoli X-XVIII. Biblioteca Morcelliana (in Italian). Morcelliana. p. 248. ISBN 978-88-372-1990-1. OCLC 57303208.
- ^ Zarko, Yehuda ben Avraham (1560). Sefer leḥem Yehudah. Constantinople.
- ^ Angel, Marc D. (1991). Voices in Exile: A Study in Sephardic Intellectual History. Hoboken, N.J.: KTAV Publishing House. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-88125-370-2.
- ^ Zarko, Yehuda ben Avraham (c. 1572). "Letter to Joseph Hamon". In Anonymous (ed.). Sefer yefeh nof. Venice.
- ^ "Alashkar or Alishkar, Rabbi Moses". The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Vol. 1. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1842. p. 625.
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