Sefer Yosippon was evidently written in southern Italy. One manuscript has an internal colophon dated 953, the date claimed by its modern editor David Flusser. The book contains five themes: an initial chapter based on Genesis chapter 10 contemporizing the…
Yitzhak Lamdan’s poem Masada (1927)
Yitzhak Lamdan (1899–1954), Hebrew poet, translator and editor, is remembered above all for his ‘epic’ poem Masada, written between 1923 and 1926. Lamdan was born in Mlinov, Ukraine, into an affluent family. He benefited from a private education, both Jewish…