Wine, Women & Death: Medieval Hebrew Poems on the Good Life (English and Hebrew Edition)

Combining elements of the dominant Arabic-Islamic culture with Jewish religious and literary traditions, the Jewish poets of medieval Spain created a rich new Hebrew literature. Just as twentieth-century Western Jews participate in the most sophisticated forms of secular life without losing their sense of Jewish identity, Jewish poets of the Golden Age were able to absorb the values and style of the dominant Arabic culture without betraying their historic responsibility to their people.