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An apology is due the ultra-Orthodox.
June 4, 2020
Two Great Hebrew Poets Discuss the Longing for Jerusalem at an 800-Year Remove
Judah Halevi and Yehuda Amichai.
Of all the great Jewish poets of medieval Spain, Judah Halevi was unique in his expressions of dissatisfaction with life in exile, and his yearning for the Holy Land, summed up most famously in his verse, “My heart is in the east while I am in the uttermost west.” Sarah Rindner, having recently left America to settle in Israel—a subject she has written about here—reflects on Halevi’s words, and the response to them of the 20th-century Israeli poet, also bearing the name Yehuda, in light of her own experiences:
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Two Great Hebrew Poets Discuss the Longing for Jerusalem at an 800-Year Remove
Judah Halevi and Yehuda Amichai.