Yehuda Halevi
Subtitle: poetry and pilgrimage
By: Joseph Yahalom ; translated by Gabriel Levin.
Publisher: Hebrew University Magnes Press; The Hebrew University Magnes Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jerusalem
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9789654933247; 9789654934244; 9789654934268
Subjects: Judah, -- ha-Levi, -- 12th cent; Judah, -- ha-Levi, -- 12th cent. -- Criticism and interpretation; Poets, Hebrew -- Spain -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Work titles: Shirat ḥayaṿ shel R. Yehudah ha-Leṿi.
Description: Yehuda Halevi: Poetry and Pilgrimage follows the life story of the greatest Hebrew poet of medieval times from his first publication in Christian Toledo to his heroic journey toward Zion from Muslim Spain. The description is based, for the first time, on the entire collection of his poetry- The Diwan, which was edited and reedited between East and West at every important crossroad of his life. This in turn is done through comparison to autographical letters and contemporary correspondence discovered and collected over the past 50 years in the Cairo Geniza collections. Documentary material and Literary works, which were shun behind the iron wall in The Russian National Library in St. Petersburg, are woven for the first time into one, enabling us to examine closely the intricate relationship between old Jewish traditions and the ideological heritage associated with Halevi's innovative writings in prose and in poetry. Confronting Halevi's "Zion, will thou not ask"? opens the study which is mainly concerned with the story of Halevi's odyssey from Christian to Muslim Spain and eventually to Egypt, including the epic quest to the beloved yet fatal Zion.--Cover.
Notes: Translated from the Hebrew title Shirat ḥayaṿ shel R. Yehudah ha-Leṿi (Judah Halevi : a life of poetry).

Poems vocalized.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-221) and index.

Text in English. Poems also in Hebrew.