Hebrew Literature as a Source of Information on the Czech History of the First Half of the 17th Century. The Reflection of the Events in Contemporary Hebrew Poetry
Hebrew Literature as a Source of Information on the Czech History of the First Half of the 17th Century. The Reflection of the Events in Contemporary Hebrew Poetry

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with some examples of Hebrew liturgical poetry (selihoth, qinoth) containing information about the history of Jews in the Czech lands. The introduction characterizes elegies — selihoth as a literary genre. The next part of the paper analyses selihoth by Efraim Luntschitz concerning the invasion of the Passau troops into Bohemia and Prague in the year 1611. Then there are characterized selihoth by Yom Tov Lipman Heller concerning events preceding the Thirty Years’ War (the Prague defenestration of 1618 and the battle of the White Mountain in 1620). The end of the paper discusses six elegies, whose origin is closely connected with the Moravian campaign of the Swedes in the years 1642—1643 (Shimshon ben Abraham Bacharach, Moses ben Yishai Birgel and an unknown author from Kroměřiž).

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