Elisabeth Hollender is Professor of Jewish Studies at the Department of Jewish Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. She is a specialist on medieval Jewish culture in Ashkenaz with a focus on liturgical poetry and exegesis, including commentaries on liturgical poetry. After her first book Qedushta\u2019ot des Simon b. Isaak nach dem Amsterdam Mahsor. \u00dcbersetzung und Kommentar<\/em> on liturgical poetry from Mainz, she published widely on piyyut commentary, including Clavis Commentariorum of Hebrew Liturgical Poetry in Manuscript<\/em> and Piyyut Commentary in Medieval Ashkenaz<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n My continued work on piyyut commentary currently focuses on the relation between poetry and exegesis. I have co-edited the volume Exegesis and Poetry in Medieval Karaite and Rabbanite Texts<\/em>, and currently work on the treatment of Song of Songs in liturgical poetry from medieval Italy and Ashkenaz and in the commentaries of this poetry. Additionally, I cooperate with Prof. Alessandro Guetta (INALCO, Paris) in preparing a fully commented edition of Moses da Rieti\u2019s Miqdash Me\u2019at<\/em>, a monumental Hebrew poem in terza rima<\/em>, inspired by Dante\u2019s Divina Commedia<\/em>, but using the metaphor of the Jerusalem Temple to place first pagan, than Jewish authors and philosophers. We will also study the 16th<\/sup> century commentary to this work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Berakha ben Joseph\u2019s commentary on the “Piyy\u016b\u1e6d\u012bm” by Aaron ben Joseph”, in: Exegesis and Poetry in Medieval Karaite and Rabbanite Texts<\/em>, ed. Joachim Yeshaya, Elisabeth Hollender, Leiden: Brill 2016, pp. 292-\u2013317.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Piyyut Commentary in <\/em>Medieval Ashkenaz<\/em>. Studia Judaica. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Clavis Commentariorum of Medieval Hebrew Piyyut-Commentary<\/em>. Clavis Commentariorum Antiquitatis et Medii Aevi 4. Leiden: Brill, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDie verlorene Qedushta \u05d0\u05de\u05e6\u05d4 \u05e2\u05e9\u05d9\u05e8\u05d9\u05d9\u05d4 von El\u02bfazar birabbi Qallir und ihr Kommentar aus Rashis Lehrhaus.\u201d Frankfurter Judaistische Beitr\u00e4ge<\/em> 34 (2007\u20138): 53\u201389.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Clavis Commentariorum of Medieval Hebrew Piyyut-Commentary<\/em>. Clavis Commentariorum Antiquitatis et Medii Aevi 4. Leiden: Brill, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Seferad in Tzarfat: Sefardi and Sefardi-Style Piyyutim in MS Bernkastel-Kues 313”, in ‘His Pen and Ink are a Powerful Mirror’ Andalusi, Judaeo-Arabic, and Other Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Ross Brann<\/em>, edited by Adam Bursi, S.j. Pearce, Hamza M. Zafer, Leiden, Boston: Brill 2020, pp. 94\u2013117.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Liturgie und Geschichte. Der Aschkenasische Machsor und J\u00fcdische Mobilit\u00e4t Im Mittelalter \u2013 Ein Methodologischer Versuch<\/em>, Arye-Maimon-Institut f\u00fcr Geschichte der Juden: Texte und Studien 10. Trier: Klio Media 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Ritualization<\/em> of Circumcision in Medieval Judaism in Relation to Islam and Christianity: An Overview.\u201d Religion<\/em> 42:2 (2012), pp. 233\u2013246.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Verachtung kann Unwissenheit<\/em> nicht entschuldigen. Reaktionen auf die Kritik Paul de Lagardes an der Wissenschaft des Judentums”, Frankfurter Judaistische Beitr\u00e4ge <\/em>30 (2003), pp. 169\u2013205.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Qedushta<\/em>\u2018ot des Simon b. Isaak nach dem Amsterdam Mahsor. \u00dcbersetzung und Kommentar<\/em>, Frankfurt\/Main: P. Lang Verlag 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Goethe University Frankfurt Elisabeth Hollender is Professor of Jewish Studies at the Department of Jewish Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. She is a specialist on medieval Jewish culture in Ashkenaz with a focus on liturgical poetry and exegesis, including commentaries on liturgical poetry. After her first book Qedushta\u2019ot des Simon b. 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