Moses ibn Ezra
Moses ibn Ezra · Arts & Literature
Hebrew poet and philosopher of the Spanish Golden Age, master of secular and penitential (selihot) verse.
c. 1055, Granada, al-Andalus (Spain) — after 1138, Spain
Granada, Spain · Christian Spain
Moses ibn Ezra is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Hebrew poet and philosopher of the Spanish Golden Age, master of secular and penitential (selihot) verse.
Moses ibn Ezra was one of the great Hebrew poets and philosophers of the Golden Age of Jewish culture in Muslim Spain. He was a master of both secular verse and penitential religious poetry (selihot) still recited in synagogue liturgy, and he wrote a pioneering treatise on Hebrew rhetoric and poetics. He was Jewish.
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Source: Jewish Encyclopedia
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Hebrew poet and philosopher of the Spanish Golden Age, master of secular and penitential (selihot) verse.
Source: Jewish Encyclopedia
