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This cartoon is reproduced from "A Picture lished by Shengold Publishers, New York, by spe-
Parade of Jewish History" by Morris Epstein, pub- cial arrangement with the author and publishers.
In the year 711 Mohammed's fol-
lowers crossed the Strait of Gibral-
tar and overran Spain. In doing so,
they released from persecution a
whole Jewish community. Spanish
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Jewry grew in numbers and in
strength. Spain saw a Jewish cul-
tural development so rich that the
period became known as the Gold-
en Age of Spain.
One young poet who was a prod-
uct of the Golden Age, a sensitive
soul whose childhood was unhappy,
and whose flowering was brief but
brilliant, was Solomon ibn Gabirol.
He was born in Malaga, Spain, in
1021, and was orphaned before he
had reached his teens. He felt
lonely and unwanted, and his rest-
lessness found an outlet in wander-
ing from city to city.
By the time he was 16, he had
already begun to express his inner-
most feelings in tender, pessimistic
poems. He felt at home with poet-
ry, and he once wrote, "I am the
master, and song is a slave to me."
He was barely 20 when he wrote
a Hebrew book of grammar con-
sisting of 400 verses, in which he
not only gave the rules of gram-
mar but chided his people for
neglecting the holy tongue.
Solomon loved Hebrew, and that
love makes his religious poems
shimmer with beauty and. deep
emotion. In one poem, he speaks
of God as a pillar of strength in
time of distress:
In trembling and fear I have made
Thee my tower;
I look for no aid but Thy strength
and Thy power.
Some of his poems were so wide-
ly known that they were included
in prayer books and are still re-
cited in synagogues throughout the
world.
Solomon ibn Gabirol's keen
mind found another avenue of
expression in philosophy. One of
his works, "The Fountain of Life,"
had a strange history. Written in
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Arabic, it explained the teachings
of early Greek scholars. It was
very popular and was translated
into Spanish and later into Latin.
For hundreds of years it was
studied by Christian philosophers,
who thought it had been written
by someone called Avicebron.
In the 19th Century, a man
named Solomon Munk was work-
ing in the National Library in
Paris. He found part of the original
Arabic of "The Fountain of Life."
Comparing it with its Latin trans-
lation, "Fons Vitae," he discovered
that both were the same. It had
taken 800 years to learn that ibn
Gabirol was the real author.
Solomon ibn Gabirol's sad and
solitary life was brought to an
early close. He died in 1058 at
the age of 37. He had only had
time to sing a few songs, but each
was a gem that captured the heart
of his people.
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