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Twilight of a Golden Age offers a selection of poems by medieval Jewish scholar Abraham Ibn Ezra. Ibn Ezra (1089-1167) was a scholar, poet, and philosopher from Al-Andalus. Renowned for his biblical commentaries, he also made significant contributions to philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, and astrology. His works influenced Jewish and non-Jewish intellectual traditions alike. He was also the first to realize the need to translate the theoretical works of Jewish scholars in Al-Andalus from Arabic to Hebrew. As a sage-teacher he traveled in Spain, Italy, France, and England, where, according to certain researchers, he died. Also considered among the most famous Jewish poets, he penned verse that exemplified high Hebrew-Spanish culture in the Middle Ages. This volume of his work is a welcome addition to lovers of and newcomers to ibn Ezra's work.

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Weinberger offers the reader a rare opportunity to become intimately acquainted with Abraham ibn Ezra, [who] also was known and admired in the non-Jewish world, and has been immortalized in Robert Browning s Rabbi Ben Ezra. Weinberger is to be commended for making his poetry available in English, and for authoring a most valuable introduction to ibn Ezra s life and work. Menorah Review

Weinberger offers the reader a rare opportunity to become intimately acquainted with... Abraham ibn Ezra, [who] also was known and admired in the non-Jewish world, and has been immortalized in Robert Browning's 'Rabbi Ben Ezra.' Weinberger is to be commended for making his poetry available in English, and for authoring a most valuable introduction to ibn Ezra's life and work. - Menorah Review

Weinberger offers the reader a rare opportunity to become intimately acquainted with... Abraham ibn Ezra, [who] also was known and admired in the non-Jewish world, and has been immortalized in Robert Browning's 'Rabbi Ben Ezra.' Weinberger is to be commended for making his poetry available in English, and for authoring a most valuable introduction to ibn Ezra's life and work. - Menorah Review <p>

Weinberger offers the reader a rare opportunity to become intimately acquainted with... Abraham ibn Ezra, [who] also was known and admired in the non-Jewish world, and has been immortalized in Robert Browning's 'Rabbi Ben Ezra.' Weinberger is to be commended for making his poetry available in English, and for authoring a most valuable introduction to ibn Ezra's life and work. - Menorah Review

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Abraham Ibn Ezra (1089-1167) was a major Jewish writer and scholar in Al-Andalus or Muslim Spain. His writings span Jewish scholarship, theology, philosophy, astronomy, linguistics, and more. His works include Sefer HaShem (Book of the Name), a theological work on the names of God; Yesod Mora (Foundation of Awe), a treatise on Jewish philosophy and ethics; Sefer HaIbbur (Book of Intercalation), a work on the Jewish calendar and astronomy; Commentary on the Torah, his extensive biblical commentaries, particularly on the Pentateuch; and Sefer Tzachot (Book of Purity), a work on Hebrew grammar. Leon J. Weinberger is the author of Anthology of Hebrew Poetry in Greece, Anatolia, and the Balkans; Early Synagogue Poets in the Balkans; Jewish Poets in Crete Jewish Prince in Moslem Spain: Selected Poems of Samuel ibn Nagrela; Rabbanite and Karaite Liturgical Poetry in Southeastern Europe; and Romaniote Penitential Poetry.

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