The Arab wrote for the camp, the Jew for the synagogue.
Two distinct types of verse, or _Piyut_ (i.e.Poetry), arose within the Jewish circle: the ingenious and the natural.

In the former, the style is rugged and involved; a profusion of rare words and obscure allusions meets and troubles the reader; the verse lacks all beauty of form, yet is alive with intense spiritual force.

This style is often termed Kalirian, from the name of its best representative.

The Kalirian Piyut in the end spread chiefly to France, England, Burgundy, Lorraine, Germany, Bohemia, Poland, Italy, Greece, and Palestine.

The other type of new-Hebrew Piyut, the Spanish, rises to higher beauties of form.