Into the light
Subtitle: the medieval Hebrew poetry of Meir of Norwich
By: translated by Ellman Crasnow and Bente Elsworth ; with an introduction by Keiron Pim
Contributors: Crasnow, Ellman, translator; Elsworth, Bente, translator; Pim, Keiron
Publisher: East Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Norwich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9780956328519
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Translations into English
Description: "The first published translation of Meir of Norwich's poems brings a valuable medieval literary voice to prominence after more than 700 years. Everything we know about Meir ben Eliahu -- his name, his experiences as a Jew in 13th-century England, his love of God -- comes from the twenty poems in this book ... For more than 600 years the poems were lost, only to be rediscovered in the late 1800s in the Vatican Library and, in the case of one poem, in a Russian manuscript. Now they have been reinterpreted for today's readers"--
Notes: In English and Hebrew on facing pages.