Mayor Wagner has proclaimed the year 1960 as “Solomon Ibn Gabirol Year” in New York City in a proclamation presented to leaders of the Hispanic Jewish community here. The proclamation declared that “the power of the Hispanic culture derives from its singular, aesthetic and emotional character combined with the unique and extraordinary integration of the Jewish past into the Hispanic present.”
The proclamation noted that a one-year cultural program was underway sponsored jointly by the Hispanic and Jewish communities of New York City. It added that it was fitting that the program should be centered around Solomon Ibn Gabirol, “early poet and philosopher of the Hispanic world, upon the 900th anniversary of his death.” It said that Ibn Gabirol was “the greatest of Hebraic poets who left an imperishable impression on Christian thinking.”
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