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Origins of Sefarad

Before History: Avraham Ibn Daud and his Sefer ha-Kabbalah
🌅 Centuries before the practices of modern history emerged, R. Avraham Ibn Daud, a devout Aristotelian rabbinic Jew, wrote us one of the most important…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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The Journey of Yehuda ha-Levi
🌅 Sefarad's golden boy turns his back on courtly pleasures and sets his sights on his once and future country.
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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Outsider/Insider: Shlomo Ibn Gabirol and Moshe Ibn Ezra
🌅 Today we explore the lives of two poet-philosophers, one the ultimate well-heeled Andalusi insider and the other an idiosyncratic, semi-tragic…
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Three Sefardi Halachists: Yitzchak Ibn Ghiyat, Ri Migash, Yehuda bar Barzillai
🌅 The these three early figures represent the flowering of Talmud learning in al-Andalus, proving influential both in the Islamicate world and in the…
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The Warrior-Poet: Shmuel ha-Nagid
🌅 An icon of "Golden Age" Sefarad, the life of Shmuel ha-Nagid is at once representative of the opportunities available to medieval Jews in Muslim…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
The Sefardi Grammarians and their Battles
🌅 We move into the culture of Sefarad by unpacking a famous (and famously vicious) controversy over Hebrew grammar that broke out in the late ninth…
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The Origins of Sefardi Jewry
🌅 Today we kick off a new series focused on the achievements of Jews in Islamicate Iberia with an exploration of the storied community's ancient…
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