The Golden Age

In Cordova, birthplace of the Golden Age, Navon happens upon a street celebration. He attempts to bridge over a thousand years, and find parallels with the Cordova days of the prominent Jewish poets as Shmuel Hanagid; the Minister of State of Granada, its Minister of Treasury and its Chief Army General – and those who came after him, as Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Moses Ibn Ezra and the most prominent of all, Judah Halevi. This duality of sanctity and secularity, spirituality and sensuality, terror of death and joy of life can still be felt in the contemporary Andalusian atmosphere.