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LETTERS FROM THE PAST
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Abraham Rabinovich
Jerusalem Post
03-17-1995
An east wind carried the other ships out of Alexandria harbor on their way toward Tripoli and Sicily, but the vessel that Yehuda Halevi had boarded remained tied to the quay awaiting a westerly breeze. Halevi, the greatest Jewish poet of the Middle Ages, was braced for the final stage of his poignant journey to the "gates of heaven," as he described Eretz Yisrael.
In the seventh decade of his life, he had decided to leave behind the adulation, comforts and friends that were his in the Iberian Peninsula. He was revered not only as a poet whose ...
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My heart is in the East.
Magazine article from: The Literary Review
; [ARABIC EXPRESSION NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] Note: Yehuda Halevi (c. 1080-1141) was one of the greatest Spanish Jewish poets. Born in Toledo, Spain, while it was still under Islamic rule, he was...
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Maryut Bay becomes Alexandria harbor.(black codes and military tactics in german warfare)
Magazine article from: Spokesman Magazine
; ...commission as a lieutenant. In the desert just outside Cairo at the Camouflage Experimental Section, Major Barkas informed Maskelyne that his new job would be to hide Alexandria harbor. While others might have expressed dismay at the breadth of suc
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Purim sequence. (poem)(The Keys to the Garden: Israeli Writing in the Middle East)
Magazine article from: The Literary Review
; ...Alexis: I saw Mali, a friend from the neighborhood who does Alexis all year round 3. In the bus Purim Eve Allenby, corner of Yehuda Halevi Wieseltier and a girl wrapped up in each other, lyrically kissing in the middle of the crossing the Arabs still haven't breached...
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Time, form, and content: Franz Rosenzweig and the secret of biblical narration.
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
; ...language. From a biblical standpoint and as a believer he claims there is only one. In his translation of ninety-two poems by Yehuda Halevi, which renders every detail of form, Rosenzweig claims: There is only one language. There is no language trait of one language...
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Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...mystical tradition, indeed at times paraphrasing in English the words of the great eleventh-/twelfth-century Jewish visionary Yehuda Halevi and his Kusari (c. 1130-40). Another omission is Robert Browning, where discussion is limited to 'Mr. Sludge The Median...
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EGYPT: EGYPT KEEN ON PROMOTING COOPERATION WITH BELGIUM.
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database
; ...said Tuesday27/5/2008. Mansour, accompanied by Crown Prince Philip of Belgium and his accompanying delegation had toured Alexandria harbor to stand on the upgrading process of the port with a view to touring it into a main port in the Mediterranean Sea. At a...
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The Lost World of CLEOPATRA.(sunken palace found in the Mediterranean outside of Alexandria)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
; ...rather than her beauty, captivated Caesar. Caesar joined with Cleopatra to defeat Ptolemy's army. The young king drowned in Alexandria harbor, clad in his golden armor. Though his advisers told Caesar that he was needed in Rome, he did not want to leave Cleopatra...
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