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Poems from the Diwan, ed. Gabriel Levin, Atlas: 2002. A selection of Halevi poems in English translation. From a review: Yehuda Halevi’s Poems from the Diwan is a rare and wonderful book. Gabriel Levin has selected some 60 poems from Halevi’s voluminous works, and transposed them into English poems that manage, in a nimble and….
JQR 101.1 (2011) Hebrew poet of all time. Moreover, Halevi's philosophical work, the. Kuzari, written, or at least completed, in the late 1130s, has attained clas sic status, and, among medieval Jewish philosophical works, its popular. ity has been exceeded only by Maimonides' Guide of Perplexed, and. perhaps Bahya ibn Pakuda's earlier Duties ...
May 21, 2008 · Judah ben Samuel Halevi (c. 1075–1141) was the premier Hebrew poet of his generation in medieval Spain. Over the course of some fifty years, from the end of the 11 th century to the middle of the 12 th, he wrote nearly 800 poems, both secular and religious. However, because this was a time of intensifying religious conflict characterized by ...
Yehudah Halevi. Yehudah Halevi (c.1075–1141) is considered to be one of the greatest Hebrew poets. He lived in both Muslim and Christian Spain before rejecting its culture of Jewish-Arab hybridization and leaving for Israel in 1140. His most famous work is the philosophical text called the Kuzari. Poems by Yehudah Halevi.
Judah Halevi’s poems, secular and religious, are recognized as belonging to the foremost examples of Hebrew poetry. His Songs of Zion, giving expression to the poets yearning for the land of Israel, are still used in synagogues during the Ninth of Av service to introduce a note of consolation after the recital of the dirges on this day of mourning for the destruction of the Temple and for ...
- Rabbi Louis Jacobs
Aug 17, 2010 · 68. Joseph Citation Yahalom's recent monograph on Halevi's poetry and journey, entitled Yehuda Halevi, is a small but significant contribution to the scholarly literature surveyed in the present study, one which doubtless merits independent treatment. At present all that can be said is that it concretizes the timeless fascination Halevi's ...
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Secular poetry. Judah's secular or non-religious poetry is composed of poems of friendship, love, humor, and eulogy. Drinking songs by Judah have also been preserved, as well as verses relating to his vocational work as a physician. Halevi's prayer for the physician was first translated into English in 1924:
