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NAJARA, ISRAEL BEN MOSES

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 156 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOS-NAN
NAJARA, ISRAEL BEN MOSES , Hebrew poet, was
born
  in Damascus and wrote in the latter
part
  of the 16th
century
  (1587-1599). He was inspired by the mystical school, and his poems are marked by their bold, sensuous images, as well as by a
depth
  of feeling unequalled among the Jewish writers of his age. He often adapted his verses to Arabic and Turkish melodies. To tunes which had been associated with
light
  and even ribald themes, Najara wedded words which reveal an intensity of religious emotion which often takes a form indistinguishable from love
poetry
 . Some pietist contemporaries condemned his
work
  for this reason; but this did not prevent many of his poems from attaining wide popularity and from winning their way into the
prayer
 -
book
 . In fact, Najara could claim the authority of the Biblical " Song of Songs " (mystically interpreted) for his combination of the language of human love with the expression of the relationship between God and humanity.
He published during his lifetime a collection of his poems, Songs of
Israel
  (Zerniroth
Israel
 ), in Safed in 1587; an enlarged edition appeared in Venice (1599-1600). Others of his poems were published at various times and W Bacher has described some previously


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