Agreed. Also very good are the translations by Peter Cole. Not to be forgotten is Ted Carmi's anthology. "The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse," It is a general anthology, but the Medieval section is very strong. There are older translations of Judah Halevi, Ibn Gabirol and Ibn Ezra and some anthologies. These translations are dated. The Peter Cole translations supercede these translations though the versions of the Hebrew texts on them are still scholarship worth praising. Here are some of the titles (without the JPS). Hope this helps:
Carmi, T., edited and translated by. The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse. New York, Viking, 1982. ISBN: 0-14-042197-1. Octavo, paper covers, 608 pp., select bibliography, acknowledgements, glossary, index of Poets and Titles (English), Index of First Words (Hebrew), Index of Poets (Hebrew) Softbound. Good. Hebrew and English on facing pages Cole, Peter. The dream of the poem : Hebrew poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 Cole, Peter. The poetry of Kabbalah : mystical verse from the Jewish tradition [Cole] Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid [Cole] Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol [Cole] Collected Poems Avraham Ben Yitzhak Scheindlin, Raymond P. The Gazelle: Medieval Hebrew Poems on God, Israel and the Soul. New York, Oxford University Press, 1991. Octavo, paper covers, xii, 274 pp., notes, index. Very Good. Thirty poems in the original Hebrew, English translation and with commentary and notes Scheindlin, Raymond P. The Song of the Distant Dove; Judah Halevi's Pilgrimage. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008. First Edition. ISBN: 978-0-19-531542-4. Octavo in dust jacket, frontispiece facsimile page, xii, 310 pp., notes, poem sources, bibliography, index of poems, index of names and subjects. Hardbound. Very Good. Scheindlin, Raymond P. Wine, Women & Death: Medieval Hebrew Poems on the Good Life. New York, Oxford University Press, 1986. Octavo, paper covers, x, 204 pp., notes, further reading, index. Softbound. Very Good. Poetry is presented bilingually on facing pages. Critical text is in English only. End > Dear Jeff, > > Try the books of Raymond Scheindlin. Excellent biographies, analysis and > skilled translations; the cutting edge yet most readable. > > Assume all are listed at Amazon and at web-site of any library of a > university with a serious Judaica program. > > Enjoy, > > Best > > BR > > > On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Jeff Corbett > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I have a request from a patron for information books, websites, etc. >> regarding Jewish Medieval poetry.**** >> >> She described it as the Golden Age of Jewish Poetry and mentioned, >> Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi.**** >> >> This request is beyond my knowledge-base, so any leads would be >> appreciated.**** >> >> Her primary language is English. 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