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Avraham Ibn Ezra (c. 1093 – c. 1167)

NonfictionFebruary 16, 2007

With the departure of Yehuda HaLevi for the Land of Israel and, several years later, the first wave of invasions by the North African Almohads, the Golden Age of… More

Todros Abulafia (1247 – after 1300)

NonfictionFebruary 16, 2007

A distant relative of Meir HaLevi Abulafia, but no relation to Avraham, Todros Ben Yehuda Abulafia was born in Toledo in 1247 and spent most of his life in… More

Yehuda Halevi (c. 1075 – 1141)

NonfictionFebruary 16, 2007

An unrivalled master of Hebrew and its prosody, Yehuda Halevi is perhaps the most famous and certainly the most revered of all the medieval poets. “The quintessence and embodiment… More

Pronouns

Poetry
By: | February 11, 2007

He plays a train. She plays a whistle. They move away. He plays a rope. She plays a tree. They swing. More

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