Den spansk-judiska diktningen mellan arabiskt och hebreiskt

Authors

• Karin Almbladh Uppsala universitet

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30752/nj.69538

Keywords:

Jews -- Spain, Jewish poetry, Jewish literature, Hebrew language, Sephardim, Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204, Ibn Ezra, Moses, 1060?-1139?, Judah, ha-Levi, 12th cent, Hebrew poetry, Arabic poetry, Judeo-Arabic poetry

Abstract

The article is describing Jewish poetry in Muslim dominated parts of Spain from the 10th century and traces its further development in the Christian dominated areas after the Reconquista. The development of the Hebrew language, the poetical rhythms and time in this “Hebrew branch of the Arabic literature”, the themes of the poetry and the literary theories of authors as Moses ibn Ezra and Yehudah Halevi is analysed as well as the attitude of Maimonides to the poetry. The final part of the article is describing the development of Hebrew into the dominating Jewish literary language in the Sefardi world at the same time as Jews contributed to the literary development of the spoken languages of the peninsula.