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NAJARA, ISRAEL BEN MOSES
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See also:NAJARA, See also:ISRAEL See also:BEN See also:MOSES , See also:Hebrew poet, was See also:born in See also:Damascus and wrote in the latter See also:part of the 16th See also:century (1587-1599). He was inspired by the mystical school, and his poems are marked by their bold, sensuous images, as well as by a See also:depth of feeling unequalled among the Jewish writers of his See also:age. He often adapted his verses to Arabic and See also:Turkish melodies. To tunes which had been associated with See also:light and even See also:ribald themes, Najara wedded words which reveal an intensity of religious emotion which often takes a See also:form indistinguishable from love See also:poetry. Some pietist contemporaries condemned his See also:work for this See also:reason; but this did not prevent many of his poems from attaining wide popularity and from winning their way into the See also:prayer-See also:book. In fact, Najara could claim the authority of the Biblical " See also:Song of Songs " (mystically interpreted) for his See also:combination of the See also:language of human love with the expression of the relationship between See also:God and humanity. He published during his lifetime a collection of his poems, Songs of Israel (Zerniroth Israel), in Safed in 1587; an enlarged edition appeared in See also:Venice (1599-1600). End of Article: NAJARA, ISRAEL BEN MOSESAdditional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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