Download or read book The Gazelle written by Raymond P. Scheindlin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the tenth century to the thirteenth, the Jews of Spain belonged to a vibrant and relatively tolerant Arabic-speaking society, a sophisticated culture that had a marked effect on Jewish life, thought, artistic tastes, and literary expression. In this companion volume to Wine, Women, and Death, we see how the surrounding Arabic culture influenced the new poetry that was being written for the synagogue service. The Hebrew poems here, accompanied by elegant English translations and explanatory essays are short lyrics of the highest literary quality.