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Studies in medieval Jewish poetry : a message upon the garden / [edited] by Alessandro Guetta and Masha Itzhaki.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Hebrew Series: Studies in Jewish history and culture ; v. 18.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 297 pages)Content type:
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  • 9789047442202
  • 9047442202
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Studies in medieval Jewish poetry.DDC classification:
  • 892.4/1209 22
LOC classification:
  • PJ5023 .S78 2009eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Poetry as handicraft. Ars poetica in medieval Hebrew secular poetry : same symptoms, different diagnosis / Nili Shalev ; Kitāb al-Muḥāḍarah wa-al-mudhākarah by Moshe ibn Ezra compared with Kītāb al-Badī by Ibn al-Muʻtazz / 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-Ḥarizi's Book of Taḥkemoni 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 Darʻi (ca. 1180-ca. 1240) / Arie Schippers ; The research history of the Baghdadi-Jewish poet Elʻazar 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 Ḥasid, not a ruler" : the Ḥasid as a ruler in the poetry of Rabbi Judah Halevi / Ephraim Hazan ; Le surnom amoureux dans la poésie liturgique de Pessaḥ de Judah Halevi / Eric Dahan.
Summary: From Iraq to Spain, from Germany to Cataluna, from Italy to Yemen, poetry has been for centuries a privileged mode of expression in the Jewish world. This work analyses the different themes and authors of this tradition, providing fresh insights to well-known authors or proposing less celebrated works as equally worthy of study.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-287) and index.

Poetry as handicraft. Ars poetica in medieval Hebrew secular poetry : same symptoms, different diagnosis / Nili Shalev ; Kitāb al-Muḥāḍarah wa-al-mudhākarah by Moshe ibn Ezra compared with Kītāb al-Badī by Ibn al-Muʻtazz / 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-Ḥarizi's Book of Taḥkemoni 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 Darʻi (ca. 1180-ca. 1240) / Arie Schippers ; The research history of the Baghdadi-Jewish poet Elʻazar 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 Ḥasid, not a ruler" : the Ḥasid as a ruler in the poetry of Rabbi Judah Halevi / Ephraim Hazan ; Le surnom amoureux dans la poésie liturgique de Pessaḥ de Judah Halevi / Eric Dahan.

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From Iraq to Spain, from Germany to Cataluna, from Italy to Yemen, poetry has been for centuries a privileged mode of expression in the Jewish world. This work analyses the different themes and authors of this tradition, providing fresh insights to well-known authors or proposing less celebrated works as equally worthy of study.