Pair of poems
Course
WOH2012
Date (Original)
10th century
Location
North Africa (?) and al-Andalus (Spain)
Keywords
Poetry; Social History; Gender History; History of Judaism
Description
Surviving medieval Hebrew poetry written by women is very rare. The first of these two poems as written by a woman whose name has not been recorded. She is known only as the wife of Dunaš (Dunash), a noted scholar. Her poem worries about whether Dunaš will remember her, now that he has gone to Spain. In the second poem, Dunaš replied: ‘Could I betray a woman so wise?’
STARS Citation
"Pair of poems" (2020). All OER History Primary Sources. 67.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/oerhistory-all/67
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