“Your works are wondrous and I know it acutely” — From Part 1 of Solomon Ibn Gabirol’s “Kingdom’s Crown,” translated by Peter Cole Kernis is one of the country’s most-renowned composers and finds ...
Born in 1021 or 1022 in C""rdoba, Spain, and moving in childhood to the Arab-Jewish center of Saragossa, a mysterious Andalusian poet ""[took] Hebrew poetry to a level of metaphysical sophistication ...
Mayor Wagner has proclaimed the year 1960 as “Solomon Ibn Gabirol Year” in New York City in a proclamation presented to leaders of the Hispanic Jewish community here. The proclamation declared that ...
Luis Munez Marin, Governor of Puerto Rico, has issued a proclamation designating 1960 as Solomon Ibn Gabirol year, in memory of the 11th century Spanish-Jewish poet. This is the second such ...