Studies in Medieval Jewish Poetry: A Message Upon the Garden

Guetta, Alessandro and Masha Itzhaki (editors) and 15 other authors

ISBN 10: 9004169318 / ISBN 13: 9789004169319

Published by Brill, Leiden, 2009

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Octavo. xi, (1), 297, (1)pp. Index and 11 page bibliography. Text in English, French and Hebrew. Blue buckram lettered in white. A fine, as new copy. From Iraq to Spain, from Germany to Cataluña, from Italy to Yemen, poetry has been for centuries a privileged mode of expression in the Jewish world. Sometimes borrowing from the poetry of the land in which they lived, but always reinventing it in relationship to the Hebrew language and to the Jewish cultural references, the "medieval" Hebrew poets created an immense, variegated and fascinating corpus. In this book, some of the best specialist of the field analyse different themes and authors of this tradition, providing new insights to well-known authors or proposing less celebrated works as equally worthy of study. As a result of this scholarship, the English reader will be able to penetrate the different social and historical contexts of significant portions of Medieval Hebrew poetry as well as the cultural implications of technical choices apparently neutral. (Publisher) Contents: Poetry as handicraft. Ars poetica in medieval Hebrew secular poetry : same symptoms, different diagnosis / Nili Shalev ; Kit?b al-Mu???arah wa-al-mudh?karah by Moshe ibn Ezra compared with K?t?b al-Bad? by Ibn al-Mu?tazz / Yosef Tobi -- Themes of Hebrew poetry in the Muslim world and Christian Iberia. Collections of homonym poems in medieval Hebrew literature / Judith Dishon ; Changing landscapes of the Hebrew rhymed prose narrative / Jonathan P. Decter ; On books and poems : poetic exchanges in Hebrew poetry in Al-Andalus / Aurora Salvatierra ; Criticism of the estates in Judah-al-?arizi's Book of Ta?kemoni and in European-Christian literature of the thirteenth century : affinity and distinction / Ayelet Oettinger -- Ashkenaz, Italy : literary genres reconsidered. Single zulatot in Ashkenaz / Elisabeth Hollender ; A contextual analysis of the Jewish Italian elegy at the time of the ghettos (sixteenth-eighteenth) centuries) / Asher Salah -- From East to West, monographical studies : the Muslim East. Some remarks on Judeo-Arabic poetical works : an Arabic poem by Moshe Dar?i (ca. 1180-ca. 1240) / Arie Schippers ; The research history of the Baghdadi-Jewish poet El?azar ha-Bavli (thirteenth century) / Wout van Bekkum -- From East to West, monographical studies : the Christian Aragon. The literary world of Shelomoh Bonafed / Angel Sáenz-Badillos ; Critical editions of the poetical correspondence between Vidal Abvenist and Solomon de Piera / Judit Targarona Borrás and Tirza Vardi -- Judah Halevy : in the laboratory of the poet/thinker. "I asked about a ?asid, not a ruler" : the ?asid as a ruler in the poetry of Rabbi Judah Halevi / Ephraim Hazan ; Le surnom amoureux dans la poésie liturgique de Pessa? de Judah Halevi / Eric Dahan. (OCLC) Note: This volume is the result of a meeting of the Association of Medieval Hebrew Poetry and Renaissance Literature, which took place in Aix-en-Provence in June 2004./ Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-287) and index. (OCLC) Volume 18 of the Brill series, "Studies in Jewish History and Culture" (SJHC).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Studies in Medieval Jewish Poetry: A Message Upon the Garden
• Publisher: Brill, Leiden
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004169318
• ISBN 13: 9789004169319
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Judaica

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Synopsis

From Iraq to Spain, from Germany to Cataluña, from Italy to Yemen, poetry has been for centuries a privileged mode of expression in the Jewish world. Sometimes borrowing from the poetry of the land in which they lived, but always reinventing it in relationship to the Hebrew language and to the Jewish cultural references, the "medieval" Hebrew poets created an immense, variegated and fascinating corpus. In this book, some of the best specialist of the field analyse different themes and authors of this tradition, providing new insights to well-known authors or proposing less celebrated works as equally worthy of study. As a result of this scholarship, the English reader will be able to penetrate the different social and historical contexts of significant portions of Medieval Hebrew poetry as well as the cultural implications of technical choices apparently neutral.

About the Author

Alessandro Guetta, PhD (1993) in Philosophy, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, is professor of Jewish Thought at Inalco, Paris. He has published extensively on the intellectual history of Italian Judaism, including Philosophy and Kabbalah. His latest work is Elijah Benamozegh and the Reconciliation of Western Thought and Jewish Esotericism (SUNY Press, 2008).

Masha Itzhaki, PhD (1979) Tel Aviv University, teaches Hebrew literature in INALCO Paris. She is the author of many books and papers on Hebrew medieval poetry and about Israeli literature. Her books include Jardin d'Eden, Jardin d'Espagne, (BNF & Sueil, Paris 1993), Yehuda Ha-Levi, from Toledo to Jerusalem, (Albin Michel, Paris 1997), Poésie hébraïqe amoureuse, (Somogy, Paris 2000).