Wine and Poetry: The Young Yehuda Halevi By Hillel Halkin. It may be the only time on record when a young man in a tavern has insisted, not that he was old enough to drink, but that he was not old enough to stop drinking. It happened in Andalusia, in the Muslim-ruled . A masterly biography of Yehuda Halevi, one of the greatest of Hebrew poets and a shining example of the synthesis of religion and culture that defined the golden age of medieval Spanish Jewry. Like Maimonides, with whom he contrasts sharply, Yehuda Halevi spanned multiple worlds. Hillel Halkin's Yehuda Halevi is a complex, daring, and consistently fascinating biography of a complex and daring man, one of the great heroes of Hebrew literature and Jewish history. Halevi comes second only to King David in his fame and influence as a Hebrew poet.
Hillel Halkin, "Wine and Poetry: The Young Yehuda Halevi," Sephardic Horizons, vol. 3, issue 1, Winter/Spring Hillel Halkin, one of the leading contemporary writers on Jewish poetry and the biographer of Halevi, discusses Halevi's youthful poetry in this article in Sephardic Horizons.. Excerpt. Yehuda Halevi, by Hillel Halkin. New York: Schocken Nextbook, pp. $ Hillel Halkin is an Israeli Jew, a Diaspora Jew, a Zionist, and a self-identified secular Jew. One of his previous books, Letters to an American Jewish Friend, makes a powerful argument that Israel is the place of the Jewish future. Halkin's own journey led him from the poetry of Whitman and civil rights work. Hillel Halkin is a good writer, and this is perhaps the first stop for anyone who wants to learn about Yehuda Halevi. He condenses a large amount of research effectively into a relatively compact book, sticking to his conjectures about the most likely version of events, but generally making the reader aware of the weight of the evidence.
Yehuda Halevi, the magiste-rial biography written by Halkin and published by Nextbook/Schocken Books in In that book, Halkin tells one of the greatest romantic stories in all of Jewish history. Halevi was born in Spain at the height of its Golden Age, but though he was. A masterly biography of Yehuda Halevi, one of the greatest of Hebrew poets and a shining example of the synthesis of religion and culture that defined the golden age of medieval Spanish Jewry. Like Maimonides, with whom he contrasts sharply, Yehuda Halevi spanned multiple worlds. Hillel Halkin’s long-awaited biography of Halevi does not disappoint. A wonderful work that captures both the heroism and profundity in Halevi’s life and thought. From the Publisher: A masterly biography of Yehuda Halevi, one of the greatest of Hebrew poets and a shining example of the synthesis of religion and culture that defined the golden age of medieval Spanish Jewry.
0コメント