You Are Holy: The Qedusha Piyyutim of R. Aaron Ben Joseph the Karaite for the Weekly Torah Portions including a number of unknown

including a number of unknown and little-known materials

El-Kodsi does a wonderful job integrating primary sources and personal experiences

of the poems for the weekly Torah portions composed by Rabbi Aaron ben Joseph

in that prayer book

most of whom lived in the region of the Pale of Settlement

You Are Holy: The Qedusha Piyyutim of R. Aaron Ben Joseph the Karaite for the Weekly Torah Portions including a number of unknownThis volume presents for the first time an English translation and detailed analysis, together with the Hebrew original, of the poems for the weekly Torah portions composed by Rabbi Aaron ben Joseph, of thirteenth to fourteenth century Constantinople. Aaron ben Joseph was a central figure in medieval European Karaite Judaism. He was the redactor of the Karaite prayer book, and authored piyyutim, that is, poems used in the service, in that prayer book.