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Judah HaLevi

In the Middle Ages they had yet to hold the Eurovision

competition, but there were already poem contests. In Spain at

that time they liked to listen to poets’ poems. People were in the

habit of inviting poets to parties, banquets and other ceremonies,
so that they will read out (some) of their poems. One of the

favoured culture events back then was poem contests and poem

writing contests.

A young and anonymous poet by the name of Judah HaLevi

stumbled upon one of these important contests. In that contest

he showed his ability in poem writing, and from an anonymous

poet he became one of Spain’s greatest poets. Judah HaLevi
wrote hundreds of pieces in Hebrew, among them 700 poems.

Despite the fact that some 1,000 years have passed since, his

poems are considered to this day one of the peaks of Hebrew

creation.

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