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Lot #    15404
Auction End Date    9/5/2006 10:22:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Divan des Jehuda Halevi
Author    [First Ed.] Abraham Geiger, Trans.
City    Berlin
Publisher    Hugo Schildberger
Publication Date    1893
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. x, 173 pp., 169:122 mm., wide margins, gild end papers, light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original cloth boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    This volume is part of a series entitled Schriften des Vereins für jüdische Geschichte und Litteratur, and it is labeled Bd. 1. It contains translations of poetry by Yehuda HaLevi into German by Abraham Geiger, S. Heller…Mortiz Steinschneider and others. It includes a bibliography on p. 163. A diwan (or divan) is a collection of Arabic poetry, usually by one author. Yehuda HaLevi (1086-1145) was a prolific author and the greatest Hebrew poet of his time. Born in Toledo, the capital of Castile, Judah studied with the famous rabbinic scholar, Isaac Alfasi. In addition to mastering biblical Hebrew, Arabic and the intricacies of the Talmud, Judah explored the physical sciences, philosophy and metaphysics. He was especially proficient at writing poetry, and soon he attracted the attention of the great poet Moses Ibn Ezra. It wasn't long before his fame spread throughout the Jewish communities of Spain. Because Cordoba was the cultural capital of Spanish Jewry, Halevi migrated there. As he matured, Yehuda Halevi found his voice as Israel's sweetest singer. He left behind an abundance of synagogue liturgy and nationalistic poems. Since he lived at the time of the first crusade, Judah realized the plight of his people. In his most famous work, The Kuzari, Halevi foreshadowed the philosophy Jewish nationalism.
          
Reference
Description		    http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Halevi.html
        
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Poetry
  
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First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica