Abstract:

Although many of the Sephardic traditional qinōt in Judeo-Spanish are probably of medieval origin, rarely could be proven that they are recastings of poems that had existed in the Iberian Peninsula prior to 1492 or that they are time-worn versions of them. The fragments of two qinōt of Tišʻāh beʼāv belonging to the tradition of the childeating mother that will be analyzed in this article constitute interesting examples of that religious poetry composed by Jewish educated men in medieval Spain and then transferred to the Sephardic Diaspora.