The Fundación Tres Culturas and Makom Sefarad are organising a presentation of the work of Todros Abulafia, one of the most important Spanish-Hebrew poets, by the doctor and expert Rachel Peled.
Todros Abulafia was born in 1247 in Toledo into an important Jewish family; he lived a good part of his life in this city, in the service of Alfonso X the Wise and his son Sancho IV, in a melting pot of cultures between East and West. The author of some 1,200 poems, he is one of the leading post-classical poets of medieval Spain and one of the most colourful characters of the period. The imprisonment of the Jews in 1281 marked his life and his work, and he was torn from his pleasant aristocratic life and thrown into a miserable existence.
The presentation will be followed by a workshop which, based on a short selection of Abulafia's beautiful poems, will allow the public to learn about the traditional mode of Jewish study, the Beit Midrash. The Beit Midrash, or house of study, is the place where teachers and disciples meet to study and discuss texts from the Jewish tradition.
Rachel Peled Cuartas is a doctor cum laude in Religious Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid; researcher and translator of medieval Hispanic-Hebrew literature; post-doctoral research associate in the Department of Ibero-American Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; co-director and professor of the Sephardic Studies, Medieval Mediterranean Languages and Biblical Hebrew programmes at IEMSO (University of Alcalá); founder, co-director and professor of the Ulpan Hebrew Sefarad and the Translation Workshop (Madrid).
To attend the conference, registration is required. via the following link.
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