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Born in Cuba and raised in Philadelphia, author Maria Rosa Menocal
teaches at Yale University.
civilization were crushed
Menocal tells her story
by fear and a narrowing
through a series of
of mind and heart.
vignettes, focusing on
So devastating was the
the main actors whose
expulsion of 1492 that
impact on centuries of
Jewish theologian and
cultural innovation is
financier Isaac
still felt today.
Abravanel, who still had
In addition to Halevi,
access to Spanish mon-
Maimonides and
archs Ferdinand and
HaNagid, readers learn
Isabella, pleaded that
about poet Ibn Hazm
the expulsion be delayed
and of Hasdai ibn
from July 31 to August
Shaprut, whose meteoric
2. In 1492, this date
rise through the capital's
cREATEn
corresponded to the
intellectual and political
Tisha b'Av, the anniver-
ranks led to his becom-
E
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sary of the destruction
ing a central player in
of the first and second
the diplomatic corps.
"Menocals book is a love song
Temples in Jerusalem.
Another star of al-
addressed to the Jewish,
Menocal writes in
Andalus was 11th-cen-
Muslim and Christian poets
her poignant epilogue
tury poet and Cordoban
of what we once called the
that Ferdinand and
Jew Dunash ben Labrat.
High Middle Ages," writes
Isabella "did not have
Centuries before Eliezar
educator/philosopher Harold
the courage to culti-
Ben Yehuda began con-
Bloom in his foreward to
vate a society that
verting Hebrew into a
"The Ornament of the World"
could live with its own
modern language, ben
flagrant contradictions.
Labrat devoted himself
"... They chose instead to go down
to freeing the language from its liturgi-
the modern path, the one defined by an
cal bonds, especially pioneering its use
ethic of unity and harmony, and which
in the writing of poetry.
is largely intolerant of contradiction."
"In that loving and revolutionary
This allegiance to uniformity can
embrace by a powerful and supremely
lead to dictatorial practices, threatening
self-assured man," Menocal writes,
the richness of ethnicity and purging
"Hebrew was redefined, and cultivated
individuality with goose-stepping fer-
as a language that could transcend the
vor. Such was the attitude that led to
devotional and theological uses to
the dissolution of Spain's Golden Age.
which it had lately been limited."
The Hebrew word for peace, shalom, is
Most readers have only a shadowy
rooted in the word shalem, meaning
understanding of the cultural richness
whole or with a sense of completeness.
that led al-Andalus to be called "the
When something is whole it encompasses
ornament of the world."
dine in its all aspects, warts as well as beauty spots.
Much more farnittar is `Wilat'
As Menocal demonstrates, medieval
wake. Tolerance gave way to intolerance:
Spain managed to maintain this sort
The comfort with contradiction and
of peace for nearly 800 years.
worldliness that had typified this great
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