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12th Century

Spain
(Europe)

Judah Halevi

Timeline (1075? - 1141)

Poems by Judah Halevi
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Judah (or Yehuda) Halevi was a great Jewish poet, philosopher and court physician who lived in southern Spain/Al-Andalus during the period when the region was a world center of science, philosophy, and mysticism under the Muslim Moors.

Many of Halevi's poems were about the mystical yearning of the Jewish people and their memory of an ancient homeland of Israel, earning him the epithet "Sweet Singer of Zion."

He is also well known for writing the Kuzari (also known as The Book of Argument and Proof in Defense of the Despised Faith), a philosophical treatise written in the form of a dialog between the king of the Khazars and exponents of various belief systems in which the king ultimately chooses to convert to Judaism.

Judah Halevi died traveling to Palestine.

Poems by Judah Halevi

	Lord, Where Shall I Find You?
	O My Lord, Your dwelling places are lovely

Recommended Books

	Between Mysticism and Philosophy: Sufi Language of Religious Experience in Judah Ha-Levi's Kuzari, by Diana Lobel Amazon.com
	The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492, Edited by Peter Cole Amazon.com
	Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems, Translated by Bernard Lewis Amazon.com
	Ninety-Two Poems and Hymns of Yehuda Halevi, Translated by Franz Rosenzweig Amazon.com
	The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse, Edited by T. Carmi Amazon.com
	Philospher and Prophet: Judah Halevi, the Kuzari, and the Evolution of His Thought, by Yochanan Silman Amazon.com
	Poems from the Diwan, by Yehuda Halevi Amazon.com
	Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty, Edited by Alan Jacobs Amazon.com
	A Treasury of Jewish Poetry: From Biblical Times to the Present, Edited by Nathan Ausubel / Edited by Marynn Ausubel Amazon.com

Related Links:

	Rabbi Scheinerman's Home Page - Judah HaLevi http://scheinerman.net/judaism/personalities/halevi.html A brief biography and discussion of the philosophy of Halevi (albeit, from a modern Zionizt political perspective).
	Medieval Sourcebook: Judah Ha-Levi, The Kuzari http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/kuzari.html The complete text of the Kuzari online.
	Judah Halevi http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Halevi.html A very brief biography online.

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