GENERAL ARTICLES

This section contains articles, serious and whimsical, on various aspects of medieval Hebrew poetry and its poets.

 

OVERVIEW

Poetry and History in Jewish Culture

by Howard Tzvi Adelman

 

VERSIFICATION

Note on the Systems of Hebrew Versification: Hebrew Quantitative Poetry in Spain

by Benjamin Harshav

 

LITURGICAL POETRY

Chapter V. The Poetry (Piyyut). From A. Z. Idelsohn, Jewish Liturgy and Its Development

[New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1932 (rpt. New York: Dover Publications, 1995)].

 

POETS by Henry Rasof

Abraham Ibn Ezra and the Metaphors of Imagination

 

From Zion to Prophecy: A Conversation with Yehuda Halevi

 

Gabirol at the Beach

 

Moses Ibn Ezra: The Wandering Jew

 

Samuel Hanagid and the “Law of Man”

 

Yehuda Halevi: My Heart

 

 

 

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