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<p> Charisi (Or [[Al]] Harisi), Jehuda Ben-Solomon, </p> <p> the Horace of [[Jewish]] poets, was born at Jerez, in Spain, about 1170, and bore also the Arabic name, Alchoni. He travelled over many parts of Europe; and into the East, and died about 1230, probably at Granada. He not only excelled as a poet, but also as a philosopher, physician, and translator. He translated from the Arabic into [[Hebrew]] Maimonides' commentary on the Seder Zeraiem; the same author's introduction to the [[Mishna]] (Germ. transl. by R. Fuirstenthal, Breslau, 1842), and his Guide or '''''מוֹרֶה''''' '''''נְבֻכַים''''' . ' His principal work is '''''תִּחְכְּמוֹנַי''''' or Diwan, which is not exactly an imitation or translation of Hariri's, though written in the style of the [[Arabian]] poet. The author describes human life in a multitude of its phases, relates his own -adventures as a traveller, and takes a critical survey of Hebrew .poetry. Portions of his work have been translated into Latin :by Ure (London, 1772); .into. German by Kiimpf and Dukes; into French by De Sacy. See Furst, Bibl. Jud. i, 164 sq.; De' Rossi, Dizionario Storiico (Germ.:trans.), p. 75 sq.; Gratz, Gesch. der Juden. vi, 209 sq.; Braunschweiger, Gesch. der Juden in der Roman St/aaten, p. 151; Jost, Gesch. d. Juden, u.s. Sekte, iii, 28; Da Costa, [[Israel]] and the Gentiles, p. 304 sq.'; Lindo, History of the [[Jews]] in Spain, p. 194; Finn, Sephardimn, p. 457 sq.; Etheridge, Introduction to Hebrew Literature, p. 259,382; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. GeCneral.e, s.v.; Delitzsch, [[Zur]] Gesch. der Jud. Poesie, p. 42, 47, 55, 87, 137, 140, 142, 160, 169; Geiger, Jud. Zeitschrof, 1872, p. 178 sq.; Carmoly, in Revue Orientale, iii, 469-73; Gratz, Leket Shoshanimn, p. 126 sq.; Kampf, Die Ersten Maklcamem aus demn Tachkemoni (Berlin, 1845); id. Nichtandalusische Poesie, p. xi sq., 3-144 (Prague, 1858); Dukes, Rabbinische Blumenlese, p. 19, 43, 60, 95, 133, 174, 189, 243; Zunz, Literaturgeschichte der Synagpoyalen Poesie. p. 471; and Zur Geschichte u. Literatur, p. 213, 459, 463. (B. P.) </p>

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