Judah Halevi
Spain (1075? - 1141) Timeline
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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







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.
Judah Halevi