ABSTRACT
Al Harizi was the great Hebrew satirical poet of the thirteenth century, and his Tachkemoni is a classic. The thirty-fifth and forty-sixth maqamath of that poem contain many references to the Jewish worthies whom he saw on his travels in the East. Like those of the Persian poets of his day, his expectations of lavish gifts for his poetry were generally disappointed, and it is the niggardliness of the notables which he found their distinguishing characteristic.
