Scholars of Piyyut
Piyyut is Jewish liturgical poetry, in Hebrew or occasionally Aramaic, composed from the fifth century CE through the end of the thirteenth century CE, and to some extent even well beyond then.
Since the 19th century, academic scholars have studied piyyut, using modern methods of history, philology, and other types of analysis. This page is a list of such scholars.
- Leopold Zunz
- Samuel David Luzzatto, known as Shadal, the acronym of his initials
- Ḥayyim Brody
- Daniel Goldschmidt
- Menahem Zulay
- Hayyim Schirmann
- Zvi Meir Rabinovitz
- Aharon Mirsky
- Joseph Marcus
- Yisrael Levin
- Ezra Fleischer
- Jonah Fraenkel
- Menahem Schmelzer
- Joseph Yahalom
- Yosef Tobi
- Ephraim Hazan
- Tova Rosen
- Binyamin Bar-Tikva
- Shulamit Elizur
- Tova Beeri
- Avraham Fraenkel
- Elisabeth Hollender
- Wout van Bekkum
- Naoya Katsumata
- Sarah Cohen
- Menahem Schmelzer