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Encyclopedia - Yehuda Halevi: Encyclopedia - Yehuda Halevi
Judah Ha-Levi, also Yehudah Halevi, or Judah ben Samuel Halevi(Hebrew רבי יהודה הלוי) (c.1085-1141 CE) was a Jewish Spanish p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joseph Ibn Migash: Encyclopedia Ii - Joseph Ibn Migash - Biography
Ibn Migash was born in Seville (some say Granada). He moved to Lucena at the age of 12 to study under the renowned Talmudist Isaac Alfasi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Spain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Spain - Moorish Spain And The Golden Age 711-12th Century
With the victory of Tariq ibn Ziyad in 711, the lives of the Sephardim changed dramatically. In spite of the stigma attached to being dhi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yehuda Halevi: Encyclopedia Ii - Yehuda Halevi - Youth
As a youth Ha-Levi lived a life of pleasure. He mixed pleasure with learning. It is possible that Judah's father, Samuel "the Castilian,"...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lopez Quezon: Encyclopedia Ii - Lopez Quezon - History
There was a flourishing coastal settlement somewhere in the southern part of the municipality of Gumaca called Talolong. The settlementâ€...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Spain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Spain - Moorish Spain And The Golden Age 711-12th Century
With the victory of Tariq ibn Ziyad in 711, the lives of the Sephardim changed dramatically. In spite of the stigma attached to being dhi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Isaac Alfasi: Encyclopedia Ii - Isaac Alfasi - Biography
Alfasi was born in Kalat ibn Hamad, a village near Fes in Morocco. He studied in Kairouan, Tunisia under Nissim Ben Jacob and Chananel Be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quezon: Encyclopedia Ii - Quezon - Geography
Quezon - Political. Quezon is subdivided into 40 municipalities and 1 city. Lucena City Agdangan Alabat Atimonan Buenavista Burdeo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Spain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Spain - Early History Before 300 Ce
Image:Hispania.jpgSome associate the country of Tarshish, as mentioned in the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, I Kings, and Jonah, wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Spain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Spain - Under The Visigoths 5th Century-711
Barbaric invasions brought most of the Iberian Peninsula under Visigothic rule by the early fifth century. Other than in their contempt f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Spain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Spain - Christian Spain 974-1300
History of the Jews in Spain - Early Rule 974-1085. Christian princes, the counts of Castile and the first kings of Leon, treated the J...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Spain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Spain - Official Persecution And Massacres 1300-1391
In the beginning of the fourteenth century the position of Jews became precarious throughout Spain as anti-semitism increased many Jews e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Spain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Spain - Modern Times 1858-
When Spain got a new Constitution in 1868, Jews once again were permitted to tread once more upon Spanish soil, but the edict of expulsio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lopez Quezon: Encyclopedia Ii - Lopez Quezon - Labor Force And Industry
Lopez had a labor force of 56.99% in 2000 or 44,849. About 9,474 of the employed labor force were engaged in primary industries such as f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Spain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Spain - Marranos 1492-1858
The history of the Jews henceforth in Spain is that of the Maranos, whose numbers, as has been shown, had been increased by no less than ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Spain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Spain - Edict Of Expulsion
Several months after the fall of Granada an Edict of Expulsion was issued against the Jews of Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella (March 31, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Spain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Spain - Forced Conversions And The New Christians 1391-1492
The year 1391 forms a turning-point in the history of the Spanish Jews. The persecution was the immediate forerunner of the Inquisition, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yehuda Halevi: Encyclopedia Ii - Yehuda Halevi - As A Philosopher
The position of Judah ha-Levi in the domain of Jewish philosophy is parallel to that occupied in Islam by Ghazali, by whom he was influen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yehuda Halevi: Encyclopedia Ii - Yehuda Halevi - Patriotism
Next to God, the Jewish people stands nearest to his heart: their sufferings and hopes are his. Like the authors of the Psalms, he gladly...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Spain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Spain - Edict Of Expulsion
Several months after the fall of Granada an Edict of Expulsion was issued against the Jews of Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella (March 31, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Spain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Spain - Marranos 1492-1858
The history of the Jews henceforth in Spain is that of the Maranos, whose numbers, as has been shown, had been increased by no less than ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Spain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Spain - Forced Conversions And The New Christians 1391-1492
The year 1391 forms a turning-point in the history of the Spanish Jews. The persecution was the immediate forerunner of the Inquisition, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Spain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Spain - Official Persecution And Massacres 1300-1391
In the beginning of the fourteenth century the position of Jews became precarious throughout Spain as anti-semitism increased many Jews e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Spain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Spain - Under The Visigoths 5th Century-711
Barbaric invasions brought most of the Iberian Peninsula under Visigothic rule by the early fifth century. Other than in their contempt f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Spain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Spain - Christian Spain 974-1300
History of the Jews in Spain - Early Rule 974-1085. Christian princes, the counts of Castile and the first kings of Leon, treated the J...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Spain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Spain - Modern Times 1858-
When Spain got a new Constitution in 1868, Jews once again were permitted to tread once more upon Spanish soil, but the edict of expulsio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yehuda Halevi: Encyclopedia Ii - Yehuda Halevi - Journey To The Holy Land
Judah ha-Levi does not seem to have been contented in Toledo; for he re-moved to the Muslim city of Córdoba. Even here, he did not feel ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Spain: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Spain - Early History Before 300 Ce
Image:Hispania.jpgSome associate the country of Tarshish, as mentioned in the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, I Kings, and Jonah, wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yehuda Halevi: Encyclopedia Ii - Yehuda Halevi - Analysis Of His Poetry
The remarkable, and apparently in-dissoluble, union of religion, nationalism, and patriotism, which were so characteristic of post-exilic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yehuda Halevi: Encyclopedia Ii - Yehuda Halevi - Religious Poetry
After living a life devoted to worldly pleasures, ha-Levi was to experience a kind of "awakening"; a shock, that changed his outlook on t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yehuda Halevi: Encyclopedia Ii - Yehuda Halevi - Love Songs
Joyous, careless youth, and merry, happy delight in life find their expression in his love-songs. Many of these are epithalamia; and are ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yehuda Halevi: Encyclopedia Ii - Yehuda Halevi - Secular Poetry
The first place in his secular or non-liturgical poetry is occupied by poems of friendship and eulogy. Judah must have possessed an attra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yehuda Halevi: Encyclopedia Ii - Yehuda Halevi - Synagogal Poetry
The poems of Judah ha-Levi, which have been adopted into the liturgy, number (in all) more than 300. The longest, and most comprehensive ...   » Read the article