This section contains articles, serious and whimsical, on various aspects of medieval Hebrew poetry and its poets.
OVERVIEW
Poetry
and History in Jewish Culture
VERSIFICATION
Note on the Systems of Hebrew
Versification: Hebrew Quantitative Poetry in Spain
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
Moses Ibn Ezra: The Wandering Jew
Samuel Hanagid and the “Law of Man”