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The Hebrew of your
poets, is like oil upon a
burn, cool as oil; after work, the smell in the
street at night of the hedge in flower. Like Solomon, I have married and
married the speech of strangers; none are like you, Shulamite. --Charles Reznikoff From The Poems of Charles Reznikoff 1918-1975,
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Click here for English translations of poems and for information about the poets. NEW! NINETY-EIGHT (98) ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF POEMS BY YEHUDA HALEVI, SAMUEL HANAGID, MOSES IBN EZRA, ABRAHAM IBN EZRA, AND SOLOMON IBN GABIROL, PLUS ONE (1) SPANISH TRANSLATION OF A POEM BY MOSES IBN EZRA. Translators include Israel Abrahams, T. Carmi, Peter Cole, Joseph Davis, Emma Lazarus, Harris Lenowitz, Amy Levy, Alice Lucas, Robert Mezey, Carl Rakosi, Charles Reznikoff, Franz Rosenzweig, Jerome Rothenberg, Nina Salaman, Solomon Solis-Cohen, Meyer Waxman, Leon J. Weinberger, and Israel Zangwill. ALSO NEW: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF EGYPTIAN-JEWISH POET JOSEPH BEN TANCHUM HA-YERUSHALMI, TRANSLATED BY HAYIM SHEYNIN AND PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME. Updated 2/04/07. |
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SURVEY ARTICLE BY PROFESSOR HOWARD TZVI ADELMAN, NOTE ON HEBREW VERSIFICATION
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About medievalhebrewpoetry.org
Greetings and welcome
to medievalhebrewpoetry.org, the first and only web site, as far as is known,
dedicated entirely to medieval Hebrew poetry.
Currently the site includes poems by five important Spanish-Hebrew poets and one Egyptian-Jewish poet. Thank you for your interest!
Medievalhebrewpoetry.org is a new web site devoted to Hebrew
poetry composed primarily from the fourth to the eighteenth centuries, with an
emphasis at least for now on the period from the tenth to the twelfth centuries, the so-called Golden Age of Jewish
culture in
In this site you will find information on the poets, their poems, and their poetry, in addition to general articles, bibliographies, and visuals, along with information on current events and scholarship in the field, repositories of manuscripts, institutes for the study of this literature, and other relevant topics.
The intended audience for the site includes general readers, poetry lovers, teachers, librarians, and scholars. Right now the site is geared more toward the first two categories; as the site develops, the emphasis will broaden to include the other categories. However, general readers and poetry lovers will always have a home here, since one of the missions of the site is to encourage the publication, in translation, of more poems and poets. For although in the 25 years since T. Carmi published his classic Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse we have begun to see what might be termed a renaissance in the publication of English translations of medieval Hebrew poetry, Carmi’s anthology contained the widest selection available of medieval Hebrew poets--that is, until recently, with the publication by Peter Cole of The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain 950-1492 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007), the largest anthology of Spanish-Jewish poetry ever published in translation.
It is hoped that, alongside such offerings as Peter Cole's and a new book by Raymond P. Scheindlin on Yehuda Halevi, this site will additionally satisfy the general reader’s and poetry lover’s curiosity about medieval Hebrew poetry, broaden the audience for the poetry, and stimulate greater interest in the academic study of medieval Hebrew poetry. (Note: Please feel free to link to this site, but please do not copy poems, articles, or other material into another site, since much of the material on this site is copyrighted and permission has been granted for use on this site only. Thank you.)
Henry Rasof
Louisville, CO
Legend: Andalucia: Center of Islamic
presence in
Jewish poets. ■Cities associated with Spanish-Jewish poets represented on this web site
as of
12/21/06. Birthplaces: Tudela (Abraham Ibn Ezra and Yehuda Halevi), Málaga
(Solomon Ibn Gabirol),
that had
important medieval Jewish presence and that are on the Jewish Spain “Routes of
Sepharad” tour. ♦Other important or interesting Spanish cities.