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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.
\\nBook:
\\nThe Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492
\\nMusic:
\\nZahava Seewald and Zohara Abulafia - I would lay down my life
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