In 1290, the Jews were banished from England. In 1655-1656, Jews once more became a part of British society, returning to the London of Oliver Cromwell, Pepys and Henry Purcell. To commemorate the 350th anniversary of this return, Michelene Wandor has written a sensuous dramatic narrative poem evoking seventeenth-century London, and telling the story of the two men who made this return possible: Oliver Cromwell and Menasseh ben Israel. "Music of the Prophets" is the third in a sequence of long poems celebrating the presence of the Jews in England. The text seduces and challenges with a delicacy and flow, combining open-form experiment with a musical delight in counterpoint, irony and wit.
- ISBN10 1904614639
- ISBN13 9781904614630
- Publish Date 30 March 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 May 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Arc Publications
- Format Paperback
- Pages 60
- Language English