Hebrew Poetry Resources

 

Learning Hebrew

Hebrew can be learnt from books, tapes and CDs, available at jewish software, unforgettable languages, hebrew world, Hebrew online, wannalearn and zigzagworld.

Free lessons and material are at foundation stone, hebrew learning sites, passing phrase, hebrew resources, learn hebrew verbs and aklah.

Other works, dictionaries, etc. can be ordered through hebrew books, judaism, books international, abebooks and alibris.

Hebrew-English-Hebrew online dictionaries are at word2word, crosswalk, yourdictionary, lexicool, language glossary, and 1-800 translate.

Some useful language exchanges: friends abroad, xlingo, mylanguage exchange, polyglot learn language, and lingozone.

Hebrew Poetry

Medieval Hebrew is a specialist field, and accounts of its poetry tend to be scholarly e.g. A. Schippers' Spanish Hebrew Poetry, N. Roth's Deal gently with the young man, and R. Scheindlin's Wine, Women and Death and The Gazelle.

Hebrew literature sources are listed at haifa university and the Jewish national and university library. There are many popular poetry translations, however, e.g. those by Carmi, Lewis, Kovak and Jospe, Brook and Cole.

A little history will help, of medieval Spain and the Jewish people. Good listings of resources on medieval Spain are found at Jewish medieval history and spanish medieval history. Much more extensive for Jewish concerns is Judaism and Jewish resources, which also lists Hebrew language courses and centres.

Halevi

The secular Hebrew poetry of Spain is often seen as its golden age — this literary greatness being shared with Islamic science and Christian theology. Poets like Yehuda Halevi (1086-1145), Samuel HaNagid (993-1056), Solomon ibn Gvirol (1021-?1070) and Moses ibn Ezra (1055-?1135) produced a great wealth of poetry that employed linguistic virtuosity, Hebrew learning and Arabic idioms/images in a deeply personal style.

 

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