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 | | Elia Levita (1469–1549), also known as Eliahu Bakhur ("Eliahu the Bachelor") was the author of the Bovo-Bukh (written in 1507–1508), the most popular chivalric romance in the Yiddish language, which, according to Sol Liptzin, is "generally regarded as the most outstanding poetic work in Old Yiddish". |
 | | Also a chivalric verse romance, it tells the story of a knight Paris and a princess Vienna; the name of the work has no apparent connection to the similarly named cities. |
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