Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol, tr. by Israel Zangwill, [1923], at sacred-texts.com

SELECTED RELIGIOUS POEMS

OF

SOLOMON IBN GABIROL

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE

BY

ISRAEL ZANGWILL

FROM A CRITICAL TEXT EDITED

BY

ISRAEL DAVIDSON, Ph. D.

Professor of Mediaeval Hebrew Literature in the Jewish Theological Seminary of America

PHILADELPHIA

THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY OF AMERICA

[1923]

Scanned proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com, September 2007, by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright was not renewed in a timely fashion as required by law at the time. These files may be used for any purpose.

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DEDICATED
BY THE TRANSLATOR
TO HIS OLD FRIEND,
THE HON. LOUIS MARSHALL, LLḌ.,
PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
AND OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE JEWISH DELEGATIONS
AT THE PEACE CONFERENCE,
IN GRATITUDE, PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL,
TO A TIRELESS AND FEARLESS WORKER FOR OPPRESSED JEWRIES
AND FOR JEWISH AND AMERICAN IDEALS,
A DOCTOR OF HEBREW LAW,
A LOVER OF HEBREW POETRY,
AND A JEW AFTER IBN GABIROL’S OWN HEART.