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A valuable resource containing lengthy photo-illustrated essay-travelogues on the Spanish cities of Cordoba, Jaen, Toledo, Palma, Tortosa, Barcelona, Girona, Tudela, Segovia, Oviedo, Leon, Ribadavia, Avila, Caceres, and Hervas. Scroll down a ways to the map, click on a city, and wait for the .pdf file to come up with information on history, culture, biographical figures, architecture, and monuments relevant to the one-time presence of Jews in these cities.

Museo de Toledo

http://www.palaciodecanaldetudela.com/palacio/museo_sinagoga.html

Information in Spanish on the old synagogue of Toledo.

Zubillaga, Miguel

“Tudela (Navarra, Spain).”

http://www.uni-trier.de/uni/fb3/geschichte/cluse/eu/en_tour_tudela.html

Historical background on Jewish presence in Tudela, birthplace of Yehuda Halevi and Abraham Ibn Ezra.

SPECIALIZED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Hollender, Elizabeth

www.rimon.de/shira

MAPS AND PHOTOGRAPHS

Map of Spanish Cities on the “European Routes of Jewish Heritage.”

http://www.redjuderias.org/imagenes/en/mapa_01.gif

Maps of Spain.

http://www.maps.data-spain.com

Relief map of Andalucia.

http://www.maps.data-spain.com/shop/index.php?action=showgal&cat=21

POEMS

“Medieval Spanish Jewish Poetry.”

http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/pwh/medjewishpoem.html

Several sentences on the subject of homoerotic poetry, along with a poem by Yishaq ben Mar-Saul and a poem by Isaac Ibn Abraham, taken from Norman Roth’s article “Deal Gently with the Young Man: Love of Boys in Medieval Hebrew Poetry of Spain,” Speculum 57:1 (1982) 20-51.

Cole, Peter.

“Three Hebrew Poets from Medieval Spain translated from the Hebrew by Peter Cole.”

Words Without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature.

http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article.php?lab=Hebrew

Short bios of Moses Ibn Ezra, Yehudah Halevi, and Abraham Ibn Ezra; translations of five poems.

POETS

Ben Labrat, Dunash

“Dunash ben Labrat.”

Jewish Virtual Library.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biograph/Labrat.html

Halvei, Judah

Jacobs, Louis.

“Judah Halevi.”

http://www.myjewishlearning.com/ideas_belief/About_Jewish_Thought/About_Ideas_TO/About_Phil_Jacobs

“Judah Ha-Levi.”

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=643&letter=J&search=halevi

“The Poetry and Prose of Yehudah ha-Levi.”

http://www.angelfire.com/ct/halevi/

“R. Yehuda Halevi.”

http://www.piyut.org.il/cgi-bin/search.pl?lang=en&Author=38&Tradition=&RulerComponents=authors

Texts and performances of his liturgical poetry.

Regelson, Abraham

“Israel’s Sweetest Singer: Yehudah Halevi (1080-1140).”

http://benyehuda.org/regelson/sweetest.html

Biographical sketch, analysis of poems and the Kuzari, and translations of poems.

“Yehuda Halevi.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehuda_Halevi

“Yehudah HaLevi zt”l: 1080-1141 CE: ‘Love Poems.’"

http://www.sephardiccouncil.org/sages/halevi3.html

Translations of six poems.

Hanagid, Samuel

“Abraham Ibd Daud: On Samuel Ha-Nagid, Vizier of Granada, 993-d after 1056.”

Internet Jewish History Sourcebook. Medieval Sourcebook.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/ha-nagid.html

“Samuel Ha-Nagid (Samuel Halevi ben Joseph Ibn Nagdela).”

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=183&letter=S&search=ha nagid

“Sanuel ha-Nagid.”

Jewish Heritage Online Magazine.

http://jhom.com/personalities/shmuel_hanagid/index.htm

Good overview, utilizing excerpts from quality scholarly materials.

“Yehudah HaNasi (Judah the Prince).”

Jewish Virtual Library.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/hanasi.html

Ibn Ezra, Abraham

“Ibn Ezra, Abraham Ben Meïr (Aben Ezra).”

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=11&letter=I&search=ibn ezra abraham

“Abraham ibn Ezra.”

Jewish Virtual Library.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/IbnEzra.html

“Abraham ibn Ezra.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Ibn_Ezra

“R. Avraham Ibn Ezra.”

http://www.piyut.org.il/cgi-bin/search.pl?lang=en&Author=13&Tradition=&RulerComponents=authors

Hebrew texts and performances of the author’s liturgical poetry.

Epstein, Meira

“Rabbi Avraham Ibn Ezra.”

http://bear-star.com/article%20-%20ibn%20ezra%20-%20life%20and%20work.htm

Ibn Ezra, Moses

“Ibn Ezra, Moses Ben Jacob Ha-Sallah (Abu Harun Musa).” http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=15&letter=I&search=ibn ezra moses

“Moses ibn Ezra.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_ibn_Ezra

Ibn Gabirol, Solomon

“Ibn Gabirol, Solomon Ben Judah (Abu Ayyub Sulaiman Ibn YaḤya Ibn Jabirul.” http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=17&letter=I&search=ibn gabirol

“R. Shlomo Ibn Gvirol.”

http://www.piyut.org.il/cgi-bin/search.pl?lang=en&Author=42&Tradition=&RulerComponents=authors

Hebrew texts and performances of the poet’s liturgical poetry.

Immanuel of Rome

“Immanual the Roman.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_the_Roman

PIYYUT/LITURGICAL POETRY

Abrahams, Israel.

Chapters on Jewish Literature (1899). Chapter VII. The New-Hebrew Piyut.

http://www.authorama.com/chapters-on-jewish-literature-8.html

Arnoff, Basmat Hazan.

“The Piyyut Is Jewish Soul Music.”

Zeek, March 2006.

http://www.zeek.net/603piyyut/

Recent article describing resurgence of interest in Jewish liturgical poetry in Israel, including the writing and performance of new poems, music, and poems set to music.

Deutsch, Gotthard. “Piyyut.”

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=360&letter=P&search=liturgicalpoetry

Hammer, Reuven

“Piyyutim: Religious Poetry.”

http://www.myjewishlearning.com/holidays/Rosh_Hashana/Overview_Rosh_Hashanah_Community/RH_Services/Piyyutim_354.htm

Invitation to Piyyut.

http://www.piyut.org.il/

New web site, in English and Hebrew (but mostly in Hebrew), dedicated to piyyut—Jewish liturgical poetry and music—with general information, classic piyyutim, as well as many new compositions.

Siegel, Eliezer.

“Piyyut: The Poetry of Worship.”

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/Shokel/940908_Piyyut.html

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