The Hebrew sonnets of Immanuel of Rome, the greatest Hebrew poet of medieval Italy, available for the first time in English.

Poet, biblical commentator and satirist Immanuel ben Shelomo, known as Immanuel of Rome, was the greatest Hebrew poet of medieval Italy.

A contemporary of Dante’s, the beauty of his writings has fascinated scholars for over six centuries. Yet unlike Dante, he has not become a household name. For the first time, scholar and translator Yehudah Cohn makes all of Immanuel’s Hebrew sonnets available in English for the first time.

This event will last approximately 1 hour, without an interval. 

About the speakers:

Yehudah Cohn, after a business career trading commodities, completed a doctorate in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford. Cohn is the author of Tangled Up in Text: Tefillin and the Ancient World and co-author of a Handbook of Jewish Literature from Late Antiquity. He was one of the translators of the new Oxford Annotated Mishnah and has also translated work by the Israeli Nobel laureate SY Agnon. Originally from London, he now divides his time between Jaffa and New York.