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Writing Hebrew

Indeed, Jews stopped speaking Hebrew, but many continued to

write in Hebrew. Poets wrote poems in Hebrew, rabbis
corresponded on matters of Law in Hebrew, and philosophers

wrote their views in Hebrew. In the long period of exile

thousands of books were written in Hebrew in various fields:

science, philosophy, sanctity, poetry, plays, medicine,
mathematics and grammar.

The period of exile was a difficult period from beginning to end

[throughout the whole of its duration]: The Jewish People

underwent persecutions, suffering, poverty and want. But in a
certain period that was called ‘the golden age’, the Jews in Spain

enjoyed freedom and good economic conditions. In these years

(900-1,200 A.D.), Arab Caliphs ruled Spain, and relations of

respect and appreciation existed between them and the Jews.
The good conditions brought with them cultural prosperity for

the Jewish poets in Spain as well.

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