Menachem Lorberbaum

Menachem Lorberbaum was born in New York (1958) and lives in Jerusalem. He served as chair of the Graduate School of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University where he founded the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies and heads the Bet Midrash at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem. Menachem edited the new, and first complete, Hebrew translation of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan (Shalem). He has explored the poetics of medieval Andalusian Hebrew poetry in his book Dazzled by Beauty (Ben Zvi). Menachem has published four books of poetry: In this Village (Carmel 2002), And After the Fire (Carmel 2004) and Touchings/Visions (Carmel 2006). Together with Michal Govrin he edits the poetry series Devari-m at Carmel press which published his latest work Transpositions translations of English poetry.