Medieval Spain
The Comprehensive Book.
Lost manuscripts, competing marriage proposals, and printers making decisions.
Not translations, but appropriations.
And the rabbi who tried to convert the pope.
The astrolabe of Verona.
Abraham Ibn Daud and his Book of the Tradition.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol and Moses Ibn Ezra.
Shmuel the Statesman and dark side of the Golden Age.
How many Jews had been dragged to the baptismal font in Tortosa, and how many had just given up the struggle and gone of their own accord?
Now known as the “synagogue of the Assumption.”
Messages of hope in early printed Hebrew texts.
An installation at the Met Cloisters aims to reflect “art at the frontiers of faith.”
Spanish authorities unearth long-buried synagogues from the Middle Ages.
Medieval Spain produced many Jewish geniuses. The poet and philosopher Solomon Ibn Gabirol, born 1000 years ago, wrote poetry that is still sung in synagogues all over the world.