biography
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Ezra, Moses ben Jacob ben
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1055–c.1138)
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| biography:
| Spanish-Hebrew poet, born in Granada, S Spain, of a wealthy and powerful family. His youthful poems, consisting of 245 light secular pieces on wine, love, spring, and friendship, Shirei ha-Khol (ed H Brody, Berlin, 1935), reflect a life of ease. It is not recorded whether he suffered under the persecution of the Andalusian Jews in 1066, but it may have been that he studied under Ishaq ben Yehuda ben Gayyat at Lucena. He is known to have been in Granada during the Almoravid invasion of 1090, and stayed there briefly when his family was dispersed. Eventually he too was forced to escape to Christian Spain, where he wrote emotional poetry about his lost Granada. |
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