[12] "Makama (plural, Makamat), the Arabic word for a place where people congregate to discuss public affairs, came to be used as the name of a form of poetry midway between the epic and the drama." (Karpeles, Geschichte der jüdischen Literatur, vol. II., p. 693.) The most famous Arabic poet of Makamat was Hariri of Bassora, and the most famous Jewish, Yehuda Charisi. See above, p. 32, and p. 211 [Tr.]
[13] Hirt, Bibliothek, V., p. 43.
[14] Midrash Echah, I., 5; Mishna, Rosh Hashana, chap. II.
[15] Cmp. Wünsche, Die Haggada des jerusalemischen Talmud, and the same author's great work, Die Haggada des babylonischen Talmud, IL; also W. Bacher, Die Agada der Tannaiten, Die Agada der babylonischen Amoräer, and Die Agada der palästinensischen Amoräer, Vol. I.
[16] M. Sachs, Stimmen vom Jordan und Euphrat.
[17] Emanuel Deutsch, "Literary Remains," p. 45.
[18] Address at the dedication of the new meeting-house of the Independent Order B'nai B'rith, at Berlin.
[19] Numbers, xxi. 17, 18.
[20] Psalm cxxxiii.
[21] M. J. Schleiden: Die Bedeutung der Juden für die Erhaltung der Wissenschaften im Mittelalter, p. 7.