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| | The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Hebrew literature @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | The great monuments of the earliest period of Hebrew literature are the Old Testament and the Apocrypha. |
 | | Famous scholars and authors of Hebrew literature in the Middle Ages included Aha of Shabcha, Saadia ben Joseph al-Fayumi, Dunash ben Tamim, Dunash ben Labrat, Gershom ben Judah, Al-Fasi, Solomon ben Judah Ibn Gabirol, Rashi, Judah ha-Levi, Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra, Maimonides, Immanuel ben Solomon, Isaac Abravanel, and Joseph ben Ephraim Caro. |
 | | Outside Israel, the writing of the Jews is ordinarily in the language of the countries in which they live or in Yiddish, whose literary use developed rapidly after the middle of the 19th cent. |
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