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Andalusian Jewish Poetry’s Greatest Outsider, and Its Greatest Insider
Solomon Ibn Gabirol and Moses Ibn Ezra.
There are prosaic works filled with their own form of poetry, and then there is poetry itself. Two of the greatest Hebrew poets by any standards were Solomon Ibn Gabirol and Moses Ibn Ezra (not to be confused with his cousin, the Bible commentator and poet Abraham Ibn Ezra). Both products of the Jewish cultural efflorescence of medieval Spain, the two men adapted Arabic stylings into Hebrew verse, described both sacred and profane subjects, and authored learned treatises as well as poems. Tamar Marvin writes:
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Andalusian Jewish Poetry’s Greatest Outsider, and Its Greatest Insider
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