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Judah Halevi and His Circle of Hebrew Poets in Granada
Series: - Hebrew Language and Literature Series, Volume: 6
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Perhaps the greatest Hebrew poet since biblical times, Judah Halevi (ca. 1075-1141) is best-known for his “Songs of Zion,” written late in life. But when Halevi first appeared on the stage of history, he was just a young man, incredibly talented - and completely unknown. This study focuses on Halevi’s earliest period of creativity within a circle of Hebrew poets centering on the Muslim city-kingdom of Granada. Part One examines the lure of Muslim Spain for an up-and-coming young poet and the poems paving his way thither; Part Two, the social setting in which this circle of poets flourished and the dynamics behind many of its poems. A number of poems are brought in translation, many for the first time.
Ann Brener, Ph.D. (1999) in Hebrew Literature, Cornell University, is Assistant Professor of Medieval Hebrew Poetry at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. She is also the author of Isaac ibn Khalfun: A Wandering Hebrew Poet of the Eleventh Century (Brill, 2003).
All those interested in medieval Hebrew poetry and Jewish history, as well as scholars of medieval Iberian, Arabic and troubadour poetry, and the socio-cultural world of al-Andalus.