David Levi (1742 in London – 1801) was an English-Jewish writer, Hebraist, Jewish apologist, translator, and poet.
He read voraciously in Jewish literature from ancient times to the present, as well as in Christian writings about Judaism and about the Bible.
Self-educated, he realised how little both Jews and Christians in England knew about Judaism and resolved to explain and defend his faith.
His six-volume English translation of the liturgy served as the foundation for later editions published in England and in the United States.
Levi was also poet in ordinary to the synagogue, and furnished odes when required on several public celebrations, as, for instance, on the king's escape from assassination in 1795.