On love and spices
Apr 30, 2014•5 min
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Episode description
A teenaged spice-shop owner and professional scribe, Shmuel Hanagid wrote such scintillating and literary love letters that a client hired him for bigger and better things. His work was lost for nearly 1,000 years and rediscovered only in the 1930s.
Book:
The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492
Music:
Zahava Seewald and Zohara Abulafia - I would lay down my life
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