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Judah Halevi

Judah Halevi (also Yehuda Halevi or ha-Levi; Hebrew: יהודה הלוי and Judah ben Shmuel Halevi יהודה בן שמואל הלוי‎‎; Arabic: يهوذا اللاوي, romanized: Yahūḏa al-Lāwī; c. 1075 – 1141) was a Sephardic Jewish poet, physician and philosopher. He was born in Al-Andalus, either in Toledo or Tudela, in 1075.[2] He is thought to have died in 1141, in either Jerusalem, at that point the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, or in Alexandria, Egypt.[2]

Judah Halevi

c. 1075

Toledo or Tudela, Al-Andalus

1141 (66 years)

Jerusalem, Kingdom of Jerusalem

Sefer ha-Kuzari[1]

Medieval philosophy

Jewish philosophy

Religious philosophy

Halevi is considered one of the greatest Hebrew poets, celebrated both for his secular and religious poems, many of which appear in present-day liturgy. His most famous philosophical work is the Sefer ha-Kuzari.[3]

Dîwân des Abû-l-Hasan Jehudah ha-Levi/Diwan wĕ-hu 'sefer kolel šire 'abir ha-mešorerim Yĕhudah ben Šĕmu'el ha-Levi. 4 vols (Berlin: Itzkowski, 1894-1930): vol. 1, vol. 2 part 2 (notes), pp. 157-330, vol. 3, pp. 1-144, vol. 3, pp. 145-308, vol. 4. According to a 2002 assessment, this is 'a flawed edition marred by numerous textual mistakes and by the erroneous inclusion of poems by other poets. It was also far from including ha-Levi’s complete oeuvre'. However, 'even today, nearly a century after Brody’s effort, there is still no authorized edition of Judah ha-Levi’s work. The absence of such an edition has been, and will continue to be, an obstacle toward the completion of any credible study of ha-Levi’s poetry.'[23]

Heinrich Brody

Selected Poems of Judah Halevi, ed. by Heinrich Brody and Harry Elson, trans. by Nina Salaman (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1974),  0-8276-0058-5 [first publ. 1924].

ISBN

Poemas sagrados y profanos de Yehuda Halevi, trans. by Maximo Jose Kahn and Juan Gil-Albert (Mexico, [Ediciones mensaje] 1943).

Yehuda Ha-Leví: Poemas, trans. by Ángel Sáenz-Badillos and Judit Targarona Borrás (Madrid: Clasicos Alfaguara, 1994)

Las 'Sĕlīḥot la-'ašmurot' de R. Yehudah ha-Leví: traducción y estudio literario, ed. and trans. by M.ª

Isabel Pérez Alonso, Colección vítor, 415 (Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2017),  978-84-9012-763-6

ISBN

Luzzatto, דיואן ר' יהודה הלוי. Lyck, 1864.

Rosenzweig, Franz. Jehuda Halevi, zweiundneunzig Hymnen und Gedichte Deutsch. Berlin, [publication date thought to be 1926]

[24]

Bernstein, S. Shirei Yehudah Halevi. 1944

Zmora, ר' יהודה הלוי. 1964

Schirmann, שירים חדשים מן הגניזה, 1965

Literary journals and periodicals that have published his work include:[2]


Some anthologies of Hebrew poetry that feature his work include:[2]


In 1422, Provencal Jewish scholar Jacob ben Chayyim Comprat Vidal Farissol published a commentary on the Kuzari called the “Beit Ya’akob.”[25]

Burial[edit]

The traditional tombs of Judah Halevi and Abraham ibn Ezra are located in Cabul, a village in the Galilee.[26]

Media related to Judah Halevi at Wikimedia Commons

Encyclopaedia Judaica article by Daniel J. Lasker and Angel Sáenz-Badillos at Encyclopedia.com

Judah HaLevi

by Barry Kogan at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Judah Halevi

by Dr. Henry Abramson of Touro College South

"Yehudah Ha-Levi: Poet Philosopher of Sepharad," Video Lecture

The Kitab al-Khazari of Judah Hallevi, full English translation at sacred-texts.com

The Kitab al-Khazari of Judah Hallevi, Judeo-Arabic original

– English translations.

Poems by Judah Ha-Levi