Alter Levin | |
Birth Date: | 4 January 1883 |
Birth Place: | Minsk, Russian Empire |
Death Place: | Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine |
Resting Place: | Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery |
Language: | Hebrew |
Alter Isaac Levin (; 4 January 1883 – 4 October 1933), also known by the pen name Asaph ha-Levi, was a Hebrew-language writer and poet.
Born in Minsk, he immigrated to Ottoman Jerusalem (later Mandatory Palestine) in 1891, studying there at the Etz Chaim Yeshiva. During World War I he conducted espionage for the British. He committed suicide in 1933.