Title of material

Pair of poems

Author(s)

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