Raymond P. Scheindlin

From the original legends of the Bible to the peace accords of today's newspapers, this engaging, one-volume history of the Jews will fascinate and inform. 30 illustrations.

From Legendary Times to Modern Statehood

A Short History of the Jewish People

The Jewish poets of medieval Spain combined elements of the dominant Arabic-Islamic culture with Jewish religious and literary traditions to create a rich new Hebrew literature that is as richly entertaining today as it was in the twelfth century. In this delight delightful book, Scheindlin presents the original Hebrew poetry with his own melodic English translations, each followed by commentary that explains its cultural context.

Medieval Hebrew Poems on the Good Life

Wine, Women, & Death

Scheindlin has written the first book on Halevi (d. 1141), the greatest of premodern Hebrew poets pilgrimage from Spain to Israel. A detailed narrative of his journey, interwoven with poems and samples of original documents is crowned by the complete corpus of Halevi's pilgrimage poems in new verse translations, accompanied by discussions.

Judah Halevi's Pilgrimage

The Song of the Distant Dove

Michael Sells

María Rosa Menocal

Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī

M. M. Badawi

Muhammad Mustafa Badawi

This volume provides an authoritative survey of creative writing in Arabic from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.

Modern Arabic Literature

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.

Medieval Hebrew Poems on God, Israel, and the Soul

The Gazelle

Studded with maps, illustrations, and sidebars with entertaining stories, a concise, popular chronological history covers three thousand years of Jewish history, from legendary times to the latest developments in the peace process.

Most frequently used Arabic verbs are conjugated, one verb to a page. A concentrated review of Arabic verb forms for both beginning and advanced students.

Fully Conjugated in All the Forms

201 Arabic Verbs

Forme and Structure in the Poetry of Al-Muʿtamid Ibn ʿAbbād

A new translation brings out the anger of Job and his conviction that his suffering is undeserved, and emphasizes the cycle of dialogue among Job, his friends, and God

The Book of Job

The Literature of Al-Andalus is an exploration of the culture of Iberia, present-day Spain and Portugal, during the period when it was an Islamic, mostly Arabic-speaking territory, from the eighth to the thirteenth century, and in the centuries following the Christian conquest when Arabic continued to be widely used. The volume embraces many other related spheres of Arabic culture including philosophy, art, architecture and music. It also extends the subject to other literatures - especially Hebrew and Romance literatures - that burgeoned alongside Arabic and created the distinctive hybrid culture of medieval Iberia. Edited by an Arabist, an Hebraist and a Romance scholar, with individual chapters compiled by a team of the world's leading experts of Islamic Iberia, Sicily and related cultures, this is a truly interdisciplinary and comparative work which offers a interesting approach to the field.

The Literature of Al-Andalus

R. B. Serjeant

T. M. Johnstone

A. F. L. Beeston

G. R. Smith

The History provides an invaluable source of reference of the intellectual, literary and religious heritage of the Arabic-speaking and Islamic world.

Raymond P. Scheindlin

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