Granada poet whose penitential poems earned him the title HaSallah, the writer of selihot, still heard in Sephardi synagogues. His Arabic treatise on Hebrew poetics is the first systematic study of the art, and he mentored the young Yehuda HaLevi.
משה אבן עזרא
Poet and literary theorist · c. 1055–1060–after 1138
Granada poet whose penitential poems earned him the title HaSallah, the writer of selihot, still heard in Sephardi synagogues. His Arabic treatise on Hebrew poetics is the first systematic study of the art, and he mentored the young Yehuda HaLevi.
