Abstract
This essay examines fragments of a type of medieval Iberian poetry discarded in the storage room or Genizah of a Cairo synagogue. I argue that rather than having suffered a single fragmentation, the poems, known as muwashshahas, have been modified and broken apart according to the interests of their diverse users. To examine the mobility of these poems across multiple cultures, religions, and vast geographies and temporalities, in addition to the creative, material, and scholarly motivations that led to their successive fragmentations, I examine poems of or related to Yehuda Halevi and Moshe ibn Ezra.
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