Judah ben Abraham Zarko (
Hebrew: יהודה בן אברהם זרקו) was a 16th-century
GreekHebrew poet.[1] Born at
Rhodes, he lived for a few years at
Salonika where he joined the Ḥakme ha-shir (
lit.'Sages of Poetry') literary circle.[2]
During a residence at
Constantinople Zarko wrote his maqamaSefer leḥem Yehudah (Constantinople, 1560), which contains an allegory on the soul, metrical and non-metrical poems, and epigrams directed against
Maimonides and Judah Sabara.[3][4] A letter written by him to congratulate Joseph Hamon on his marriage is given at the beginning of the anonymously-compiled Hebrew style-book Sefer yefeh nof,[5][6] and some of his shorter poems were published by
Hirsch Edelmann in his Dibre ḥefetz (London, 1853).
^Yeffet, Revital (2003). "The Desired Beautiful Princess: Yehudah Zarko of Rhodes and his Literary Work 'Lehem Yehudah'". In Pomeroy, Hilary (ed.). Proceedings of the 13th British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies. Leiden: E.J. Brill. pp. 167–176.
ISBN9780904188295.
OCLC789260072.
^Zarko, Yehuda ben Avraham (c. 1572). "Letter to Joseph Hamon". In Anonymous (ed.).
Sefer yefeh nof. Venice.
^"Alashkar or Alishkar, Rabbi Moses". The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Vol. 1. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1842. p. 625.
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