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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.
Modern Israel. Black-Jewish Relations in America. American Jews. My Jewish Learning is a not-for-profit and relies on your help. Donate. In just a few lines, Judah Halevi expresses in the following poem his yearning for Zion and the intensity of his longing: My heart is in the east, and I in the uttermost west–.
Chapter X. Judah Halevi, in A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik (1916) Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted ...
Yehuda Halevi was a spanish jewish poet and philosopher. He was born in Spain, either in Toledo or Tudela, in 1075 or 1086, and died shortly after arriving in Israel in 1141, at that point the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. Halevi is considered one of the greatest Hebrew poets, celebrated both for his religious and secular poems, many of which appear in present-day liturgy. His greatest ...
Judah Halevi (born circa 1080) is the greatest poet and one of the profoundest thinkers Judaism has had since the closing of the canon. He plumbed the depths in religion and reflection on history, and he made claims for Israel so strange and inordinate, that he would be merely an anomaly unless profoundly related to his time and viewed ...
by Judah Halevi, a twelfth-century Jewish polymath. Halevi (ca. 1075–1141), despite his outsider origins in northern Christian Spain, seemed the very model of the Andalusian Jewish intellectual. He was a physician and poet, broadly educated in both Jewish and non-Jewish sources, and eloquent in both Arabic and Hebrew.1
Selected Poems in English Translation. Medievalhebrewpoetry.org collection of Yehuda Halevi poems in English, available for free online. From Medieval Hebrew Poetry online, a selection of Yehuda Halevi’s most well-known poems translated into English, including “My Heart is in the East,” and “Jerusalem.”. Online: medievalhebrewpoetry.org.
