On love and spices

Published: April 16, 2014, 3:02 p.m.

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A teenaged spice-shop owner and professional scribe, Shmuel Hanagid wrote such scintillating and literary love letters that a client hired him for bigger and better things. His work was lost for nearly 1,000 years and rediscovered only in the 1930s.

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Book:

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The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492

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Music:

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Zahava Seewald and Zohara Abulafia - I would lay down my life

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