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KALIR [QALIR], ELEAZER

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 642 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KALIR [QALIR], ELEAZER , See also:Hebrew liturgical poet, whose See also:hymns (piyyutim) are found in profusion in the festival prayers of the See also:German synagogal rite. The See also:age in which he lived is unknown. Some (basing the view on Saadiah's Sefer ha-galuy) See also:place him as See also:early as the 6th See also:century, others regard him as belonging to the See also:roth century. Kalir's See also:style is powerful but involved; he may be described as a Hebrew See also:Browning. Some beautiful renderings of Kalir's poems may be found in the volumes of See also:Davis & See also:Adler's edition of the German Festival Prayers entitled Service of the See also:Synagogue.

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