Poems from the Diwan

One of the finest poets in post-Biblical Hebrew literature, in a major new translation.

Born in the second half of the 11th century, Halevi wandered in his youth between Muslim and Christian Spain before settling in Cordoba around 1110. He later set out on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, at the time under Crusader rule. The exact circumstances of his death have remained a mystery.

Gabriel Levin was born in France, grew up in the United States, and has lived in Jerusalem since 1972. He has published two collections of poetry and several translations from Hebrew, French and Arabic. He is a founding editor of Ibis Editions, a small press established in Jerusalem in 1997 for the publication, in English, of literature from the Levant.