You Are Holy: The Qedusha Piyyutim of R. Aaron Ben Joseph the Karaite for the Weekly Torah Portions most of whom lived in

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

The books also contains pictures and description of ritual

These poems are still recited today in Karaite synagogues

Note: this book opens right-to-left (the Semitic way)

You Are Holy: The Qedusha Piyyutim of R. Aaron Ben Joseph the Karaite for the Weekly Torah Portions most of whom lived inThis 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.