Major Works

• Poems from the Diwan

  - 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… More

• 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.”  

Commentary

• “Judah Halevi: Poet Laureate, Religious Thinker, Communal Leader, Physician”

  - S. D. Goitein, “Judah Halevi: Poet Laureate, Religious Thinker, Communal Leader, Physician,” A Mediterranean Society, Vol. 5: The Individual, University of California Press, 1988, pp. 448–468.  
  From the Publisher: “This six-volume “portrait of a Mediterranean personality” is a composite portrait of the individuals who wrote the personal letters, contracts, and all other manuscript fragments that found their way into the Cairo… More

• Ninety-Two Poems and Hymns of Yehuda Halevi

  - Franz Rosenzweig, Ninety-Two Poems and Hymns of Yehuda Halevi, trans. Thomas Kovach, Eva Jospe and Gilya Gerda Schmidt, ed. Richard A. Cohen, State University of New York Press, 2000.  
  From the Publisher: “This is the first publication in English of Franz Rosenzweig’s 1927 translation of and commentaries on ninety-two poems and hymns of the greatest medieval “singer of Zion,” Yehuda Halevi (born circa 1080). Franz… More

• Judah Halevi and His Circle of Jewish Poets in Granada

  - Ann Brener, Judah Halevi and His Circle of Jewish Poets in Granada, Brill-Styx, 2005.  
  From the Publisher: “Perhaps the greatest Hebrew poet since biblical times, Judah Halevi (ca. 1075-1141) is best-known for his “Songs of Zion,” written late in life. But when Halevi first appeared on the stage of history, he was just a young… More

• The Song of the Distant Dove: Judah Halevi’s Pilgrimage

  - Raymond P. Scheindlin, The Song of the Distant Dove: Judah Halevi’s Pilgrimage, Oxford Press, 2008.  
  From the Publisher: “Judah Halevi (ca. 1075-1141) is the best known and most beloved of medieval Hebrew poets, partly because of his passionate poems of longing for the Land of Israel and partly because of the legend of his death as a martyr while… More

• Yehuda Halevi by Hillel Halkin

  - Hillel Halkin, Yehuda Halevi, Schocken, 2010.  
  Hillel Halkin’s long-awaited biography of Halevi does not disappoint. A wonderful work that captures both the heroism and profundity in Halevi’s life and thought. From the Publisher: A masterly biography of Yehuda Halevi, one of the greatest of… More