The Piyyutim of R. Yehiel Bar Avraham of Rome

The book contains an edition of the piyyut corpus of the 11th Century Italian payyetan R. Yehiel bar Avraham, known especially by virtue of his son, R. Natan, author of the Arukh. Among his piyyutim we find many selihot, but also piyyutim belonging to the qerova and yotzer types. The piyyutim are accompanied by an apparatus of variant readings, a commentary, and a scientific introduction, in which R. Yehiel’s corpus is illuminated from different perspectives, with special stress on characteristic collocations and expressions peculiar to him.