You Are Holy: The Qedusha Piyyutim of R. Aaron Ben Joseph the Karaite for the Weekly Torah Portions These poems are still recited

These poems are still recited today in Karaite synagogues

Aaron ben Joseph was a central figure in medieval European Karaite Judaism

and authored piyyutim

The results of Hakham Toviyya's efforts can still be felt today in the Karaite communities in the United States and Israel

and the Hakham Akbar or Grand Hakham Tubiyah Simhah Lifi Babufitsh (Toviyyah ben Simhah Levi Babovitch) regularly contributed interviews or essays

You Are Holy: The Qedusha Piyyutim of R. Aaron Ben Joseph the Karaite for the Weekly Torah Portions These poems are still recitedThis 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.