Bialik Prize
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The Bialik Prize is an annual literary award
Literary award
A literary award is an award presented to an author who has written a particularly lauded piece or body of work. There are awards for forms of writing ranging from poetry to novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing . There are also awards...

 given by the municipality of Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...

, Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

 for significant accomplishments in Hebrew literature. The prize is named in memory of Hayyim Nahman Bialik
Hayyim Nahman Bialik
Hayim Nahman Bialik , also Chaim or Haim, was a Jewish poet who wrote in Hebrew. Bialik was one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poets and came to be recognized as Israel's national poet.-Biography:...

. There are two separate prizes, one specifically for "Literature", which is in the field of fiction, and the other for "Jewish thought" (חכמת ישראל). The prize was established in January 1933, Bialik's 60th birthday.

List of recipients

Year Recipients of Bialik Prize for Literature Recipients of Bialik Prize for Jewish Thought (חכמת ישראל)
1933 Dvora Boaron
Matityahu Shoham
Yehezkel Kaufmann
Yehezkel Kaufmann
Yehezkel Kaufmann was an Israeli philosopher and Biblical scholar associated with Hebrew University.- Biography :...

 (also 1956)
1934 Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Shmuel Yosef Agnon , was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon . In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon.Agnon was born in Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire...

 (also 1950)
Chaim Yehoshua Kosovski (also 1952)
1935 Avraham Freiman Benyamin Menasseh Levin
1936 David Shimoni
David Shimoni
David Shimoni was an Israeli poet, writer and translator.David Shimonovitch was born in Babruysk in Belarus to Nissim Shimonovitch and Malka Fridland Although he lived in Ottoman Palestine for a year in 1909, he did not immigrate to British-administered Palestine...

 (also 1949)
Raphael Patai
Raphael Patai
Raphael Patai , born Ervin György Patai, was a Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer, historian, Orientalist and anthropologist.-Family background:...


Moshe Zvi Segal
Moshe Zvi Segal
Moshe Zvi Segal was an eminent Israeli rabbi, linguist and Talmudic scholar.- Early life :...

 (also 1950)
1937 Ya'akov Steinberg Avraham Kahana
1938 Ya'akov Cohen
Ya'akov Cohen (writer)
Ya'akov Cohen was an Israeli poet, playwright, translator, writer and Hebrew linguist.- Early life :...

Baruch Chizik
1939 Asher Bersh
Yehuda Burla
Yehuda Burla
Yehuda Burla was an Israeli author.- Biography :Burla was born in 1886 in Jerusalem, then part of the Ottoman Empire, to a Sephardi Jewish family with rabbinical roots, originating from Izmir. Until the age of 18, he had a religious education, studying at yeshiva and beth midrash...

 (also 1954)
Zvi Rudy
Melech Zagrodski
1940 Zelda Mishkovsky
Shaul Tchernichovsky
Shaul Tchernichovsky
Shaul Tchernichovsky , was a Russian-born Hebrew poet. He is considered one of the great Hebrew poets, identified with nature poetry, and as a poet greatly influenced by the culture of ancient Greece.- Life :...

 (also 1942)
Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai
Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai
Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai was a Bible scholar, author, and linguist instrumental in the revival of the Hebrew language as a modern, spoken language...

1941 Shalom Yosef Shapira Joseph Klausner
Joseph Klausner
Joseph Gedaliah Klausner , , was a Jewish historian and professor of Hebrew Literature. He was the chief redactor of The Hebrew Encyclopedia...

 (also 1949)
1942 Haim Hazaz
Haim Hazaz
Haim Hazaz was an Israeli novelist.- Life :Hazaz was born in a small village in Ukraine, Russian Empire in 1898. He lived in a number of major European cities, including Kiev, Kharkiv, Moscow, Constantinople, Paris and Berlin before emigrating to the then British Mandate of Palestine in 1931....

 (also 1970)
Shaul Tchernichovsky
Shaul Tchernichovsky
Shaul Tchernichovsky , was a Russian-born Hebrew poet. He is considered one of the great Hebrew poets, identified with nature poetry, and as a poet greatly influenced by the culture of ancient Greece.- Life :...

 (also 1940)
Nahum Slouschz
Nahum Slouschz
Nahum Slouschz , was a Russian Hebrew litterateur, writer and translator. His 1902 doctoral thesis, "La Renaissance de la Littérature Hebraïque", was published first in French and then revised and extended for publication in Hebrew under the title "Korot ha-Sufrut ha-Ìbrit ha-Hadasha" in the...

1943 Aharon Avraham Kabak Avraham Polak
1944 Yehuda Karni
Shlomo Zemach
Shlomo Zemach
Shlomo Zemach was a Polish-born Israeli author, agriculturalist and early Zionist pioneer.-Biography:Zemach was born in 1887 in Płońsk, Poland, then part of the Russian Empire, and was a decendant of Rabbi Avraham Gombiner and his descendant, Rabbi Zvi Hirsch HaLevi of Plonsk Shlomo Zemach was a...

Yeruḥam Fishel Lachower
1945 Jacob Fichman
Jacob Fichman
Jacob Fichman also transliterated as Yakov Fichman , was an acclaimed Hebrew poet, essayist and literary critic.-Biography:Fichman was born in Botoşani, Romania in 1881...

 (also 1953)
Yitzhak Baer
Yitzhak Baer
Yitzhak Baer was German-Israeli historian and an expert in medieval Spanish Jewish history.-Early life:Baer was born in Halberstadt, Germany, in 1888...

1946 Gershon Shufman
Gershon Shufman
Gershon Shoffman was an Israeli writer and painter.- Biography :Shoffman was born in Orsha , in the Russian Empire in 1880. His parents were Zalman Shoffman and Feiga Haya Levin...


Natan Yonatan
Natan Yonatan
Natan Yonatan was an Israeli poet.His poems have been translated from Hebrew and published in more than a dozen languages, among them: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Yiddish....

Yehudah Gur (Grazowsky)
1947 Uri Zvi Grinberg (also 1954 and 1977) Shmuel Abba Hordotzki
1948 Max Brod
Max Brod
Max Brod was a German-speaking Czech Jewish, later Israeli, author, composer, and journalist. Although he was a prolific writer in his own right, he is most famous as the friend and biographer of Franz Kafka...

Jacob Nachum Epstein
1949 David Shimoni
David Shimoni
David Shimoni was an Israeli poet, writer and translator.David Shimonovitch was born in Babruysk in Belarus to Nissim Shimonovitch and Malka Fridland Although he lived in Ottoman Palestine for a year in 1909, he did not immigrate to British-administered Palestine...

 (also 1936)
Joseph Klausner
Joseph Klausner
Joseph Gedaliah Klausner , , was a Jewish historian and professor of Hebrew Literature. He was the chief redactor of The Hebrew Encyclopedia...

 (also 1941)
1950 Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Shmuel Yosef Agnon , was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon . In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon.Agnon was born in Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire...

 (also 1934)
Moshe Zvi Segal
Moshe Zvi Segal
Moshe Zvi Segal was an eminent Israeli rabbi, linguist and Talmudic scholar.- Early life :...

 (also 1936)
1951 Zalman Shneur
Zalman Shneur
Zalman Shneur was an Israeli poet and writer.- Biography :Shneur was born in Shklov in Belarus in 1887. His parents were Isaac Zalkind and Feiga Sussman. At age 13, he left for Odessa, the center of literature and Zionism during this time...

David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion
' was the first Prime Minister of Israel.Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, led him to become a major Zionist leader and Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization in 1946...

 (also 1971)
1952 Isaac Dov Berkowitz
Isaac Dov Berkowitz
Isaac Dov Berkowitz , a Jewish and Israeli author, born in Slutsk, Russian Empire, now Belarus. He emigrated to and settled in the British Mandate of Palestine, today Israel, in 1928.-Works:...

 (also 1965)
Chaim Yehoshua Kosovski (also 1934)
1953 Jacob Fichman
Jacob Fichman
Jacob Fichman also transliterated as Yakov Fichman , was an acclaimed Hebrew poet, essayist and literary critic.-Biography:Fichman was born in Botoşani, Romania in 1881...

 (also 1945)
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi was a historian, Labor Zionist leader, the second and longest-serving President of Israel.-Biography:...

1954 Yehuda Burla
Yehuda Burla
Yehuda Burla was an Israeli author.- Biography :Burla was born in 1886 in Jerusalem, then part of the Ottoman Empire, to a Sephardi Jewish family with rabbinical roots, originating from Izmir. Until the age of 18, he had a religious education, studying at yeshiva and beth midrash...

 (also 1939)
Uri Zvi Grinberg (also 1947 and 1977)
Nahman Avigad
Nahman Avigad
Dr. Nahman Avigad , born in Zawalow, Galicia , was an Israeli archaeologist.-Biography:...

1955 Moshe Shamir
Moshe Shamir
Moshe Shamir was an Israeli author, playwright, opinion writer, and public figure.-Biography:...

Avi-Yonah Michael
Shmuel Yeivin
Shmuel Yeivin
Shmuel Yeivin was an Israeli archaeologist.-Biography:Yeivin was born in 1896 in Odessa, in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire...

1956 Zvi Vislevsky Yehezkel Kaufmann
Yehezkel Kaufmann
Yehezkel Kaufmann was an Israeli philosopher and Biblical scholar associated with Hebrew University.- Biography :...

 (also 1933)
1957 Nathan Alterman
Nathan Alterman
Nathan Alterman was an Israeli poet, playwright, journalist, and translator who – though never holding any elected office – was highly influential in Socialist Zionist politics, both before and after the establishment of the State of Israel.-Biography:...

Saul Lieberman
Saul Lieberman
Saul Lieberman , also known as Rabbi Shaul Lieberman or The Gra"sh , was a rabbi and a scholar of Talmud...

1958 no award Moshe Zilberg
Moshe Zilberg
-Biography:Zilberg was born in 1900 near Kaunas in Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire. He studied at various yeshivot, including Klem, Mir, Slabodka and Novardok, and appeared to be somewhat of a prodigy. In 1920, he moved to Frankfurt, Germany and completed his general studies...

1959 Avraham Shlonsky
Avraham Shlonsky
Avraham Shlonsky was a significant and dynamic Israeli poet and editor born in Russian Empire.He was influential in the development of modern Hebrew and its literature in Israel through his many acclaimed translations of literary classics, particularly from Russian, as well as his own original...


Eliezer Steinman
Eliezer Steinman
Eliezer Steinman was a Russian-born Israeli writer, journalist and editor.-Biography:Steinman was born in 1892 in a village in Podolia in the Russian Empire, later part of Poland, now in Ukraine. In his youth, while studying in Chişinău to obtain semikhah to become a rabbi, he began to publish his...

Moshe Meizlish
1960 no award Yosef Braslavy
1961 Mordechai Ben Yehezkel Martin Buber
Martin Buber
Martin Buber was an Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of religious existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship and the I-It relationship....

1962 Baruch Kurzweil
Baruch Kurzweil
Baruch Kurzweil was a pioneer of Israeli literary criticism.-Biography:Kurzweil was born in Pirnice, Moravia in 1907, to an Orthodox Jewish family. He studied at Solomon Breuer's yeshiva in Frankfurt and the University of Frankfurt. Kurzweil emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1939...

Yosef Qafih (Kapach)
Yosef Qafih
Yosef Qafih , widely known as Rabbi Kapach , was one of the foremost leaders of the Yemenite Jewish community, first in Yemen and later in Israel. He was the grandson of Rabbi Yihhyah Qafahh, also a prominent Yemenite leader and grandson of the founder of the Dor Deah movement in Yemen...

 (also 1973)
1963 no award Yehoshua Gutman
1964 Yocheved Bat-Miriam
Yocheved Bat-Miriam
Yocheved Bat-Miriam was an Israeli poet. She is unusual among Hebrew poets in expressing nostalgia for the landscapes of the country of her birth. Yocheved migrated to British Palestine, later to be called Israel, in 1928. Her first book of poetry, Merahok was published in 1929...

Avraham Ya’ari
1965 Isaac Dov Berkowitz
Isaac Dov Berkowitz
Isaac Dov Berkowitz , a Jewish and Israeli author, born in Slutsk, Russian Empire, now Belarus. He emigrated to and settled in the British Mandate of Palestine, today Israel, in 1928.-Works:...

 (also 1952)
Yehuda Ratzaby (also 1979)
1966 Israel Efrat
Zalman Shazar
Zalman Shazar
Zalman Shazar was an Israeli politician, author. and poet. Shazar served as the third President of Israel from 1963 to 1973.-Biography:...

Shraga Abramson
1967 Shimon Halkin Abba Bendavid
1968 Ezra Zussman Gezel Kressel
1969 Aharon Reuveni Hanoch Albeck
Hanoch Albeck
Hanoch Albeck was a professor of Talmud at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. He was one of the foremost scholars of the Mishna in his time and he was one of the founders of the scientific approach to the study of the Mishna.Hanoch's father Shalom Albeck, known as the Talmudic scholar,...

1970 Haim Hazaz
Haim Hazaz
Haim Hazaz was an Israeli novelist.- Life :Hazaz was born in a small village in Ukraine, Russian Empire in 1898. He lived in a number of major European cities, including Kiev, Kharkiv, Moscow, Constantinople, Paris and Berlin before emigrating to the then British Mandate of Palestine in 1931....

 (also 1942)
Nechemia Aloni
1971 Amir Gilboa
Amir Gilboa
Amir Gilboa was a prominent Israeli Hebrew poet, born in Ukraine.-Biography:...

David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion
' was the first Prime Minister of Israel.Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, led him to become a major Zionist leader and Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization in 1946...

 (also 1951)
1972 Abraham Regelson
Abraham Regelson
Abraham Regelson was a Hebrew poet, author, children's author, translator, and editor.-Biography:Abraham Regelson was born in Hlusk, now Belarus, in the Russian Empire in 1896, and died at his home in Neveh Monossohn, Israel in 1981...

Yeshayahu Tishbi
1973 Avraham Kariv
Aharon Meged
Yosef Qafih (Kapach)
Yosef Qafih
Yosef Qafih , widely known as Rabbi Kapach , was one of the foremost leaders of the Yemenite Jewish community, first in Yemen and later in Israel. He was the grandson of Rabbi Yihhyah Qafahh, also a prominent Yemenite leader and grandson of the founder of the Dor Deah movement in Yemen...

 (also 1962)
1974 Israel Cohen Yehuda Komlosh
1975 Haim Gouri
Haim Gouri
Haim Gouri is an Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker.-Biography:Haim Gouri was born in Tel Aviv. After studying at the Kadoorie Agricultural High School, he joined the Palmach militia. In 1947 he was sent to Hungary to assist Holocaust survivors to come to Palestine...

no award
1976 Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many, both in Israel and internationally, as Israel's greatest modern poet. He was also one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew....


Yeshurun Keshet
Benyamin Kosovski
1977 Uri Zvi Grinberg (also 1947 and 1954) Gershom Scholem
Gershom Scholem
Gerhard Scholem who, after his immigration from Germany to Palestine, changed his name to Gershom Scholem , was a German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian, born and raised in Germany...

1978 Abba Kazbener
Zelda Schneersohn Mishkovsky
Yehoshua Ben-Arieh
Aaron Mirski
1979 Aharon Appelfeld
Aharon Appelfeld
-Biography:Appelfeld was born in the village of Zhadova near Czernowitz, Romania, now Ukraine. In 1941, when he was eight years old, the Romanian army invaded his hometown and his mother was murdered. Appelfeld was deported with his father to a concentration camp in Ukraine. He escaped and hid for...


Avot Yeshurun
Yitzhak Rafael
Yitzhak Rafael
Yitzhak Rafael was an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Religions in the mid-1970s.-Biography:Rafael was born in Sabov in Galicia in 1914, and attended high school in Poland...


Yehuda Ratzaby (also 1965)
1980 Dov Sadan
Dov Sadan
Professor Dov Sadan was an Israeli academic and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1965 and 1968.-Biography:...

Dan Miron
Dan Miron
Dan Miron is an Israeli literary critic and author. Miron is a Professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the Leonard Kaye Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.-Awards...

1981 Zrubavel Gilad
Zrubavel Gilad
- Biography :Gilad was born in 1912 in Bender, Bessarabia, , and his family fled to Odessa during World War I. After the Russian Revolution, they moved to Mandate Palestine. In 1924, they settled in Ein Harod, where he lived until his death in 1988...


Yehoshua Tan-Pi
Avraham Even-Shoshan
Zev Vilnay
Zev Vilnay
Zev Vilnay was an Israeli geographer, author and lecturer.-Biography:Zev Vilnay was born in Kishinev. He moved to Palestine with his parents at the age of six and grew up in Haifa. He served as a military topographer in the Haganah, and later in the Israel Defense Forces. Vilnay and his wife...

1982 Nathan Zach
Nathan Zach
Nathan Zach is an Israeli poet.-Biography:Born in Berlin, Germany, to a German father and an Italian mother, Zach immigrated to what was then known as Palestine in 1936 and served in the IDF during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War....

Israel Levin
1983 Nissim Aloni
Ozer Rabin
Ephraim Elimelech Urbach
Ephraim Urbach
Ephraim Elimelech Urbach was a distinguished scholar of Judaism. He is best known for his landmark works on rabbinic thought, The Sages, and for research on the Tosafot...


Nechama Leibowitz
Nechama Leibowitz
Nechama Leibowitz was a noted Israeli Bible scholar and commentator who rekindled interest in Bible study.-Biography:Nechama Leibowitz was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Riga two years after her elder brother, the philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz. The family moved to Berlin in 1919...

1984 Yehoshua Bar-Yosef
David Shahar
Mordechai Breuer
Mordechai Breuer
Mordechai Breuer was an Orthodox rabbi. He was one of the world's leading experts on Tanakh , and especially of the text of the Aleppo Codex....

1985 Hanoch Bartov
Hanoch Bartov
Hanoch Bartov is an Israeli author and journalist.-Biography:Hanoch Helfgott was born in Petah Tikva in 1926, a year after his parents immigrated from Poland. He attended a religious school and then the Ahad Haam gymnasium. After working in diamond polishing and welding for two years, he enlisted...


Shlomo Tanai
Hillel Barzel
David Weiss Halivni
David Weiss Halivni
David Weiss Halivni is an American-Israeli rabbi, scholar in the domain of Jewish Sciences and professor of Talmud.-Biography:...



Shlomo Pines
Shlomo Pines
Shlomo Pines was a scholar of Jewish and Islamic philosophy, best known for his English translation of Maimonides' Guide to the Perplexed.-Biography:...

1986 Yitzhak Auerbuch-Orpaz
Amos Oz
Amos Oz
Amos Oz is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva....

Ezra Fleischer
Ezra Fleischer
Ezra Fleischer was a Romanian-Israeli Hebrew-language poet and philologist.- Biography :...

1987 Moshe Dor
Dalya Rabikovich
Gershon Shaked
Gershon Shaked
-Biography:Born Gerhard Mandel in Vienna, Austria, he immigrated to Palestine alone in 1939, and was later followed by his parents. He attended Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv...

1988 Nathan Shaham
Nathan Shaham
-Biography:Born in Tel Aviv, Shaham has been a member of Kibbutz Beit Alfa since 1945, and served with the Palmach in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. He is the son of Eliezer Steinman, the Hebrew author and essayist....

Israel Eldad
Israel Eldad
Israel Eldad , was a noted Israeli independence fighter and Revisionist Zionist philosopher...


Zvi Meir Rabinovitz
1989 Avner Treinin
Avner Treinin
Avner Treinin was an Israeli poet and professor of physical chemistry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.-Biography:Treinin was born in Tel Aviv on February 14, 1928. At the age of two his family moved to Jerusalem...


A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua
Abraham B. Yehoshua is an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. His pen name is A. B. Yehoshua.-Biography:...

Shmuel Abramski
Shlomo Morag
Shlomo Morag
Shlomo Morag was an Israeli professor of the Hebrew Language at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.- Biography :Morag was born in Ramat Gan, in Mandate Palestine in 1926. Both his parents were teachers....

1990 T. Carmi
T. Carmi
-Biography:He was born Carmi Charny in New York City. Hebrew was his mother tongue and his family used it as the spoken language of their home. He moved to Israel just before the outbreak of the Israeli War of Independence...


Pinchas Sadeh
Pinchas Sadeh
Pinchas Sadeh, also transliterated Pinhas Sadeh, was a Polish-born Israeli novelist and poet.-Early life:Sadeh was born in Poland. He immigrated to what was then Palestine in 1934. He lived and studied in Kibbutz Sarid. Later, he studied in England....

Menachem Dorman
Aryeh Kasher
Aryeh Kasher
Aryeh Kasher is an emeritus professor at Tel Aviv University and a winner of the Bialik Prize.-His life and his research activity:Kasher grew up in Kfar Vitkin, where he graduated from elementary school and high school...

1991 S. Yizhar
S. Yizhar
Yizhar Smilansky , better known by his pen name S. Yizhar , was an Israeli writer and a great innovator in modern Hebrew literature.His pen name was given to him by the poet and editor Yitzhak Lamdan, when in 1938 he published Yizhar's first story Ephraim Goes Back to Alfalfa in his literary...

Mordechai Altshuler
Nathan Rotenstreich
Nathan Rotenstreich
-Biography:Rotenstreich was born in 1914 in Sambir, Galicia, then in the Austria-Hungary, later in Poland, now in Ukraine. His father, Ephraim Fischel Rotenstreich, was a Zionist leader. In 1932, at the age of 18, Rotenstreich emigrated to Mandate Palestine....

1992 Gabriel Freil no award
1993 David Avidan
David Avidan
David Avidan was an Israeli "poet, painter, filmmaker, publicist, and playwright" . He wrote 20 published books of Hebrew poetry.-Biography and literary career:...


Amalya Cohen-Carmon
Yonah Frenkel
Moshe Idel
1994 Hanoch Levin
Hanoch Levin
Hanoch Levin , was a prominent Israeli dramatist. He was also a theater director, an author and a poet, but he is best known for his plays.- Early life :...


Meir Wieseltier
Meir Wieseltier
Meir Wieseltier is a prize-winning Israeli poet and translator.-Biography:Meir Wieseltier was born in Moscow in 1941, shortly before the German invasion of Russia. He was taken to Novosibirsk in southwestern Siberia by his mother and two older sisters. His father was killed while serving in the...

Benjamin Pinkus
1995 no award no award
1996 Yehudit Handel
Ya'akov Orland
Avraham Grossman
Yehuda Liebes
1997 Yehoshua Kanz no award
1998 Nurit Guvrin
Ephraim Kishon
Ephraim Kishon
' was an Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director. He is one of the most widely-read contemporary satirists in the world.- Early life and World War II :...



Aryeh Sivan
Aharon Dotan
Eliezer Goldman

Menahem Haran
1999 Aharon Almog
Yoram Kaniuk
Yoram Kaniuk
Yoram Kaniuk is an Israeli writer, painter, journalist, and theater critic.-Biography:Yoram Kaniuk was born in Tel Aviv. His father, Moshe Kaniuk, born in Ternopil, Galicia , was the first curator of Tel Aviv Museum of Art. His grandfather was a Hebrew teacher who wrote his own textbooks....



Nurit Zarchi
Nurit Zarchi
Nurit Zarchi is an Israeli poet and author for adults and children....

no award
2000 no award no award
2001 no award no award
2002 Haim Be'er
Maya Bejerano
Maya Bejerano
Maya Bejerano is an Israeli poet.She graduated from Bar-Ilan University with a B.A. in Literature and Philosophy, and from Hebrew University with an M.A...



Yoel Hoffman

Miriam Rut
Dov Noy
Israel M. Ta-Shma

Israel Jacob Yuval
2003 no award no award
2004 David Grossman
David Grossman
David Grossman is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and have won numerous prizes.He is also a noted activist and critic of Israeli policy toward Palestinians. The Yellow Wind, his non-fiction study of the life of Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied...


Haya Shenhav

Ephraim Sidon
Ephraim Sidon
Ephraim Sidon is a renowned Israeli author, playwright and satirist, cherished for both for his satirical work and his children's books.-Biography:...

Moshe Kosovski
Mendel Pikaz

Uriel Simon
2005 no award no award
2006 Ruth Almog
Ruth Almog
-Life:Almog was born 15 May 1936 in Petah Tikva, Israel to parents who immigrated from Hamburg in 1933. She studied at David Yellin Teachers College, and at Tel Aviv University...


Raquel Chalfi
Raquel Chalfi
Raquel Chalfi is an Israeli poet.-Biography:Chalfi was born in Tel Aviv and lives and works there. Her uncle was the poet and actor Avraham Halfi. She completed her MA in English literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and later studied theater at University of California, Berkeley as...



Uri Orlev
Uri Orlev
Uri Orlev is an award-winning Israeli children's author and translator of Polish-Jewish origin.-Biography:Uri Orlev, born Jerzy Henryk Orlowski, was born in Warsaw, Poland. He survived the war years in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he was sent to after his...

Yosef Gorny
Yosef Gorny
Yosef Gorny , is Professor of Study of Zionism and head of the Zionist Research Institute at the Tel Aviv University...


Chava Turniansky
2007 no award no award
2008 Oded Burla
Oded Burla
Oded Yehuda Burla was an Israeli writer, poet, and artist. He is considered as one of the founders of children's literature in Hebrew.- Early years :...


Israel Eliraz

Yeshayahu Koren
Ezra Mendelsohn
David Vital
2009 no award no award
2010 Lea Aini
Lea Aini
Lea Aini , is an Israeli author and poet, who has written over twenty books.Her 2009 novel The Rose of Lebanon, her eighth prose book, deals with the stories that a female soldier volunteer tells about her childhood as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor from Saloniki.-Awards:*In 1988, Eini won...


Shlomit Cohen-Assif

Mordechai Geldman
Mordechai Geldman
-Biography:Geldman was born at a displaced persons camp in Munich to Polish parents who had survived the Holocaust. His family immigrated to Israel in 1949 and settled in Tel Aviv, where he has lived ever since. He completed a bachelor's in literature and an master's in clinical psychology at Bar...

Devorah Dimant
Immanuel Etkes

List of recipients in alphabetical order

Letter Recipients of Bialik Prize for Literature Recipients of Bialik Prize for Jewish Thought (חכמת ישראל)
A Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Shmuel Yosef Agnon , was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon . In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon.Agnon was born in Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire...

 (1934, 1950)
Lea Aini
Lea Aini
Lea Aini , is an Israeli author and poet, who has written over twenty books.Her 2009 novel The Rose of Lebanon, her eighth prose book, deals with the stories that a female soldier volunteer tells about her childhood as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor from Saloniki.-Awards:*In 1988, Eini won...

 (2010)

Aharon Almog (1999)

Ruth Almog
Ruth Almog
-Life:Almog was born 15 May 1936 in Petah Tikva, Israel to parents who immigrated from Hamburg in 1933. She studied at David Yellin Teachers College, and at Tel Aviv University...

 (2006)

Nathan Alterman
Nathan Alterman
Nathan Alterman was an Israeli poet, playwright, journalist, and translator who – though never holding any elected office – was highly influential in Socialist Zionist politics, both before and after the establishment of the State of Israel.-Biography:...

 (1957)

Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many, both in Israel and internationally, as Israel's greatest modern poet. He was also one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew....

 (1976)

Aharon Appelfeld
Aharon Appelfeld
-Biography:Appelfeld was born in the village of Zhadova near Czernowitz, Romania, now Ukraine. In 1941, when he was eight years old, the Romanian army invaded his hometown and his mother was murdered. Appelfeld was deported with his father to a concentration camp in Ukraine. He escaped and hid for...

 (1979)

Yitzhak Auerbuch-Orpaz (1986)

David Avidan
David Avidan
David Avidan was an Israeli "poet, painter, filmmaker, publicist, and playwright" . He wrote 20 published books of Hebrew poetry.-Biography and literary career:...

 (1993)
Shmuel Abramski (1989)
Shraga Abramson (1966)

Hanoch Albeck
Hanoch Albeck
Hanoch Albeck was a professor of Talmud at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. He was one of the foremost scholars of the Mishna in his time and he was one of the founders of the scientific approach to the study of the Mishna.Hanoch's father Shalom Albeck, known as the Talmudic scholar,...

 (1969)

Nechemia Aloni (1970)

Nissim Aloni (1983)

Mordechai Altshuler (1991)

Nahman Avigad
Nahman Avigad
Dr. Nahman Avigad , born in Zawalow, Galicia , was an Israeli archaeologist.-Biography:...

 (1954)
B Hanoch Bartov
Hanoch Bartov
Hanoch Bartov is an Israeli author and journalist.-Biography:Hanoch Helfgott was born in Petah Tikva in 1926, a year after his parents immigrated from Poland. He attended a religious school and then the Ahad Haam gymnasium. After working in diamond polishing and welding for two years, he enlisted...

 (1985)
Yehoshua Bar-Yosef (1984)

Yocheved Bat-Miriam
Yocheved Bat-Miriam
Yocheved Bat-Miriam was an Israeli poet. She is unusual among Hebrew poets in expressing nostalgia for the landscapes of the country of her birth. Yocheved migrated to British Palestine, later to be called Israel, in 1928. Her first book of poetry, Merahok was published in 1929...

 (1964)

Haim Be'er (2002)

Maya Bejerano
Maya Bejerano
Maya Bejerano is an Israeli poet.She graduated from Bar-Ilan University with a B.A. in Literature and Philosophy, and from Hebrew University with an M.A...

 (2002)

Isaac Dov Berkowitz
Isaac Dov Berkowitz
Isaac Dov Berkowitz , a Jewish and Israeli author, born in Slutsk, Russian Empire, now Belarus. He emigrated to and settled in the British Mandate of Palestine, today Israel, in 1928.-Works:...

 (1952, 1965)

Asher Bersh (1939)

Dvora Boaron (1933)

Max Brod
Max Brod
Max Brod was a German-speaking Czech Jewish, later Israeli, author, composer, and journalist. Although he was a prolific writer in his own right, he is most famous as the friend and biographer of Franz Kafka...

 (1948)

Oded Burla
Oded Burla
Oded Yehuda Burla was an Israeli writer, poet, and artist. He is considered as one of the founders of children's literature in Hebrew.- Early years :...

 (2008)

Yehuda Burla
Yehuda Burla
Yehuda Burla was an Israeli author.- Biography :Burla was born in 1886 in Jerusalem, then part of the Ottoman Empire, to a Sephardi Jewish family with rabbinical roots, originating from Izmir. Until the age of 18, he had a religious education, studying at yeshiva and beth midrash...

 (1939, 1954)
Yitzhak Baer
Yitzhak Baer
Yitzhak Baer was German-Israeli historian and an expert in medieval Spanish Jewish history.-Early life:Baer was born in Halberstadt, Germany, in 1888...

 (1945)
Hillel Barzel (1985)

Yehoshua Ben-Arieh (1978)

Abba Bendavid (1967)

David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion
' was the first Prime Minister of Israel.Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, led him to become a major Zionist leader and Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization in 1946...

 (1951, 1971)

Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi was a historian, Labor Zionist leader, the second and longest-serving President of Israel.-Biography:...

 (1953)

Yosef Braslavy (1960)

Mordechai Breuer
Mordechai Breuer
Mordechai Breuer was an Orthodox rabbi. He was one of the world's leading experts on Tanakh , and especially of the text of the Aleppo Codex....

 (1984)

Martin Buber
Martin Buber
Martin Buber was an Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of religious existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship and the I-It relationship....

 (1961)
C T. Carmi
T. Carmi
-Biography:He was born Carmi Charny in New York City. Hebrew was his mother tongue and his family used it as the spoken language of their home. He moved to Israel just before the outbreak of the Israeli War of Independence...

 (1990)
Raquel Chalfi
Raquel Chalfi
Raquel Chalfi is an Israeli poet.-Biography:Chalfi was born in Tel Aviv and lives and works there. Her uncle was the poet and actor Avraham Halfi. She completed her MA in English literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and later studied theater at University of California, Berkeley as...

 (2006)

Israel Cohen (1974)

Ya'akov Cohen
Ya'akov Cohen (writer)
Ya'akov Cohen was an Israeli poet, playwright, translator, writer and Hebrew linguist.- Early life :...

 (1938)

Shlomit Cohen-Assif (2010)

Amalya Cohen-Carmon (1993)
Baruch Chizik (1938)
D Moshe Dor (1987) Devorah Dimant (2010)
Menachem Dorman (1990)

Aharon Dotan (1998)
E Israel Efrat (1966)
Israel Eliraz (2008)
Israel Eldad
Israel Eldad
Israel Eldad , was a noted Israeli independence fighter and Revisionist Zionist philosopher...

 (1988)
Jacob Nachum Epstein (1948)

Immanuel Etkes (2010)

Avraham Even-Shoshan (1981)
F Jacob Fichman
Jacob Fichman
Jacob Fichman also transliterated as Yakov Fichman , was an acclaimed Hebrew poet, essayist and literary critic.-Biography:Fichman was born in Botoşani, Romania in 1881...

 (1945, 1953)
Gabriel Freil (1992)

Avraham Freiman (1935)
Ezra Fleischer
Ezra Fleischer
Ezra Fleischer was a Romanian-Israeli Hebrew-language poet and philologist.- Biography :...

 (1986)
Yonah Frenkel (1993)
G Zrubavel Gilad
Zrubavel Gilad
- Biography :Gilad was born in 1912 in Bender, Bessarabia, , and his family fled to Odessa during World War I. After the Russian Revolution, they moved to Mandate Palestine. In 1924, they settled in Ein Harod, where he lived until his death in 1988...

 (1981)
Amir Gilboa
Amir Gilboa
Amir Gilboa was a prominent Israeli Hebrew poet, born in Ukraine.-Biography:...

 (1971)

Mordechai Geldman
Mordechai Geldman
-Biography:Geldman was born at a displaced persons camp in Munich to Polish parents who had survived the Holocaust. His family immigrated to Israel in 1949 and settled in Tel Aviv, where he has lived ever since. He completed a bachelor's in literature and an master's in clinical psychology at Bar...

 (2010)

Haim Gouri
Haim Gouri
Haim Gouri is an Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker.-Biography:Haim Gouri was born in Tel Aviv. After studying at the Kadoorie Agricultural High School, he joined the Palmach militia. In 1947 he was sent to Hungary to assist Holocaust survivors to come to Palestine...

 (1975)

Uri Zvi Grinberg (1947, 1954, 1977)

David Grossman
David Grossman
David Grossman is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and have won numerous prizes.He is also a noted activist and critic of Israeli policy toward Palestinians. The Yellow Wind, his non-fiction study of the life of Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied...

 (2004)

Nurit Guvrin (1998)
Eliezer Goldman (1998)
Yosef Gorny
Yosef Gorny
Yosef Gorny , is Professor of Study of Zionism and head of the Zionist Research Institute at the Tel Aviv University...

 2006)

Avraham Grossman (1996)

Yehudah Gur (Grazowsky) (1946)

Yehoshua Gutman (1963)
H Shimon Halkin (1967)
Yehudit Handel (1996)

Haim Hazaz
Haim Hazaz
Haim Hazaz was an Israeli novelist.- Life :Hazaz was born in a small village in Ukraine, Russian Empire in 1898. He lived in a number of major European cities, including Kiev, Kharkiv, Moscow, Constantinople, Paris and Berlin before emigrating to the then British Mandate of Palestine in 1931....

 (1942, 1970)

Yoel Hoffman (2002)
David Weiss Halivni
David Weiss Halivni
David Weiss Halivni is an American-Israeli rabbi, scholar in the domain of Jewish Sciences and professor of Talmud.-Biography:...

 (1985)
Menahem Haran  (1998)

Shmuel Abba Hordotzki (1947)
I - Moshe Idel (1993)
J - -
K Aharon Avraham Kabak (1943)
Yoram Kaniuk
Yoram Kaniuk
Yoram Kaniuk is an Israeli writer, painter, journalist, and theater critic.-Biography:Yoram Kaniuk was born in Tel Aviv. His father, Moshe Kaniuk, born in Ternopil, Galicia , was the first curator of Tel Aviv Museum of Art. His grandfather was a Hebrew teacher who wrote his own textbooks....

 (1999)

Yehoshua Kanz (1997)

Avraham Kariv (1973)

Yehuda Karni (1944)

Abba Kazbener (1978)

Yeshurun Keshet (1976)

Ephraim Kishon
Ephraim Kishon
' was an Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director. He is one of the most widely-read contemporary satirists in the world.- Early life and World War II :...

 (1998)

Yeshayahu Koren (2008)

Baruch Kurzweil
Baruch Kurzweil
Baruch Kurzweil was a pioneer of Israeli literary criticism.-Biography:Kurzweil was born in Pirnice, Moravia in 1907, to an Orthodox Jewish family. He studied at Solomon Breuer's yeshiva in Frankfurt and the University of Frankfurt. Kurzweil emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1939...

 (1962)
Avraham Kahana (1937)
Yosef Kapach (Qafih)
Yosef Qafih
Yosef Qafih , widely known as Rabbi Kapach , was one of the foremost leaders of the Yemenite Jewish community, first in Yemen and later in Israel. He was the grandson of Rabbi Yihhyah Qafahh, also a prominent Yemenite leader and grandson of the founder of the Dor Deah movement in Yemen...

 (1962, 1973)

Aryeh Kasher
Aryeh Kasher
Aryeh Kasher is an emeritus professor at Tel Aviv University and a winner of the Bialik Prize.-His life and his research activity:Kasher grew up in Kfar Vitkin, where he graduated from elementary school and high school...

 (1990)

Yehezkel Kaufmann
Yehezkel Kaufmann
Yehezkel Kaufmann was an Israeli philosopher and Biblical scholar associated with Hebrew University.- Biography :...

 (1933, 1956)

Joseph Klausner
Joseph Klausner
Joseph Gedaliah Klausner , , was a Jewish historian and professor of Hebrew Literature. He was the chief redactor of The Hebrew Encyclopedia...

 (1941, 1949)

Yehuda Komlosh (1974)

Benyamin Kosovski (1976)

Chaim Yehoshua Kosovski (1934, 1952)

Moshe Kosovski (2004)

Gezel Kressel (1968)
L Hanoch Levin
Hanoch Levin
Hanoch Levin , was a prominent Israeli dramatist. He was also a theater director, an author and a poet, but he is best known for his plays.- Early life :...

 (1994)
Yeruḥam Fishel Lachower (1944)
Nechama Leibowitz
Nechama Leibowitz
Nechama Leibowitz was a noted Israeli Bible scholar and commentator who rekindled interest in Bible study.-Biography:Nechama Leibowitz was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Riga two years after her elder brother, the philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz. The family moved to Berlin in 1919...

 (1983)

Benyamin Menasseh Levin (1935)

Israel Levin (1982)

Saul Lieberman
Saul Lieberman
Saul Lieberman , also known as Rabbi Shaul Lieberman or The Gra"sh , was a rabbi and a scholar of Talmud...

 (1957)

Yehuda Liebes (1996)
M Aharon Meged (1973)
Zelda Schneersohn Mishkovsky (1978)
Moshe Meizlish (1959)
Ezra Mendelsohn (2008)

Avi-Yonah Michael (1955)

Dan Miron
Dan Miron
Dan Miron is an Israeli literary critic and author. Miron is a Professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the Leonard Kaye Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.-Awards...

 (1980)

Aaron Mirski (1978)

Shlomo Morag
Shlomo Morag
Shlomo Morag was an Israeli professor of the Hebrew Language at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.- Biography :Morag was born in Ramat Gan, in Mandate Palestine in 1926. Both his parents were teachers....

 (1989)
N - Dov Noy (2002)
O Ya'akov Orland (1996)
Uri Orlev
Uri Orlev
Uri Orlev is an award-winning Israeli children's author and translator of Polish-Jewish origin.-Biography:Uri Orlev, born Jerzy Henryk Orlowski, was born in Warsaw, Poland. He survived the war years in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he was sent to after his...

 (2006)

Yitzhak Auerbuch-Orpaz (1986)

Amos Oz
Amos Oz
Amos Oz is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva....

 (1986)
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P - Raphael Patai
Raphael Patai
Raphael Patai , born Ervin György Patai, was a Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer, historian, Orientalist and anthropologist.-Family background:...

 (1936)
Mendel Pikaz (2004)

Shlomo Pines
Shlomo Pines
Shlomo Pines was a scholar of Jewish and Islamic philosophy, best known for his English translation of Maimonides' Guide to the Perplexed.-Biography:...

 (1985)

Benjamin Pinkus (1994)

Avraham Polak (1943)
Q - Yosef Qafih (Kapach)
Yosef Qafih
Yosef Qafih , widely known as Rabbi Kapach , was one of the foremost leaders of the Yemenite Jewish community, first in Yemen and later in Israel. He was the grandson of Rabbi Yihhyah Qafahh, also a prominent Yemenite leader and grandson of the founder of the Dor Deah movement in Yemen...

 (1962, 1973)
R Dalya Rabikovich (1987)
Ozer Rabin (1983)

Abraham Regelson
Abraham Regelson
Abraham Regelson was a Hebrew poet, author, children's author, translator, and editor.-Biography:Abraham Regelson was born in Hlusk, now Belarus, in the Russian Empire in 1896, and died at his home in Neveh Monossohn, Israel in 1981...

 (1972)

Aharon Reuveni (1969)

Miriam Rut (2002)
Zvi Meir Rabinovitz (1988)
Yitzhak Rafael
Yitzhak Rafael
Yitzhak Rafael was an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Religions in the mid-1970s.-Biography:Rafael was born in Sabov in Galicia in 1914, and attended high school in Poland...

 (1979)

Yehuda Ratzaby (1965, 1979)

Nathan Rotenstreich
Nathan Rotenstreich
-Biography:Rotenstreich was born in 1914 in Sambir, Galicia, then in the Austria-Hungary, later in Poland, now in Ukraine. His father, Ephraim Fischel Rotenstreich, was a Zionist leader. In 1932, at the age of 18, Rotenstreich emigrated to Mandate Palestine....

 (1991)

Zvi Rudy (1939)
S Dov Sadan
Dov Sadan
Professor Dov Sadan was an Israeli academic and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1965 and 1968.-Biography:...

 (1980)
Pinchas Sadeh
Pinchas Sadeh
Pinchas Sadeh, also transliterated Pinhas Sadeh, was a Polish-born Israeli novelist and poet.-Early life:Sadeh was born in Poland. He immigrated to what was then Palestine in 1934. He lived and studied in Kibbutz Sarid. Later, he studied in England....

 (1990)

Zelda Schneersohn Mishkovsky (1978)

Nathan Shaham
Nathan Shaham
-Biography:Born in Tel Aviv, Shaham has been a member of Kibbutz Beit Alfa since 1945, and served with the Palmach in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. He is the son of Eliezer Steinman, the Hebrew author and essayist....

 (1987)

David Shahar (1984)

Moshe Shamir
Moshe Shamir
Moshe Shamir was an Israeli author, playwright, opinion writer, and public figure.-Biography:...

 (1955)

Shalom Yosef Shapira (1941)

Zalman Shazar
Zalman Shazar
Zalman Shazar was an Israeli politician, author. and poet. Shazar served as the third President of Israel from 1963 to 1973.-Biography:...

 (1966)

Haya Shenhav (2004)

David Shimoni
David Shimoni
David Shimoni was an Israeli poet, writer and translator.David Shimonovitch was born in Babruysk in Belarus to Nissim Shimonovitch and Malka Fridland Although he lived in Ottoman Palestine for a year in 1909, he did not immigrate to British-administered Palestine...

 (1936, 1949)

Avraham Shlonsky
Avraham Shlonsky
Avraham Shlonsky was a significant and dynamic Israeli poet and editor born in Russian Empire.He was influential in the development of modern Hebrew and its literature in Israel through his many acclaimed translations of literary classics, particularly from Russian, as well as his own original...

 (1959)

Zalman Shneur
Zalman Shneur
Zalman Shneur was an Israeli poet and writer.- Biography :Shneur was born in Shklov in Belarus in 1887. His parents were Isaac Zalkind and Feiga Sussman. At age 13, he left for Odessa, the center of literature and Zionism during this time...

 (1951)

Matityahu Shoham (1933)

Gershon Shufman
Gershon Shufman
Gershon Shoffman was an Israeli writer and painter.- Biography :Shoffman was born in Orsha , in the Russian Empire in 1880. His parents were Zalman Shoffman and Feiga Haya Levin...

 (1946)

Ephraim Sidon
Ephraim Sidon
Ephraim Sidon is a renowned Israeli author, playwright and satirist, cherished for both for his satirical work and his children's books.-Biography:...

 (2004)

Aryeh Sivan (1998)

Ya'akov Steinberg (1937)

Eliezer Steinman
Eliezer Steinman
Eliezer Steinman was a Russian-born Israeli writer, journalist and editor.-Biography:Steinman was born in 1892 in a village in Podolia in the Russian Empire, later part of Poland, now in Ukraine. In his youth, while studying in Chişinău to obtain semikhah to become a rabbi, he began to publish his...

 (1959)
Gershom Scholem
Gershom Scholem
Gerhard Scholem who, after his immigration from Germany to Palestine, changed his name to Gershom Scholem , was a German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian, born and raised in Germany...

 (1977)
Moshe Zvi Segal
Moshe Zvi Segal
Moshe Zvi Segal was an eminent Israeli rabbi, linguist and Talmudic scholar.- Early life :...

 (1936, 1950)

Gershon Shaked
Gershon Shaked
-Biography:Born Gerhard Mandel in Vienna, Austria, he immigrated to Palestine alone in 1939, and was later followed by his parents. He attended Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv...

 (1987)

Uriel Simon  (2004)

Nahum Slouschz
Nahum Slouschz
Nahum Slouschz , was a Russian Hebrew litterateur, writer and translator. His 1902 doctoral thesis, "La Renaissance de la Littérature Hebraïque", was published first in French and then revised and extended for publication in Hebrew under the title "Korot ha-Sufrut ha-Ìbrit ha-Hadasha" in the...

 (1941)
T Shlomo Tanai (1985)
Yehoshua Tan-Pi (1981)

Shaul Tchernichovsky
Shaul Tchernichovsky
Shaul Tchernichovsky , was a Russian-born Hebrew poet. He is considered one of the great Hebrew poets, identified with nature poetry, and as a poet greatly influenced by the culture of ancient Greece.- Life :...

 (1940, 1942)

Avner Treinin
Avner Treinin
Avner Treinin was an Israeli poet and professor of physical chemistry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.-Biography:Treinin was born in Tel Aviv on February 14, 1928. At the age of two his family moved to Jerusalem...

 (1989)

Shlomo Tzemah (1944)
Israel M. Ta-Shma (2002)
Yeshayahu Tishbi (1972)

Chava Turniansky (2006)

Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai
Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai
Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai was a Bible scholar, author, and linguist instrumental in the revival of the Hebrew language as a modern, spoken language...

 (1940)
U - Ephraim Elimelech Urbach
Ephraim Urbach
Ephraim Elimelech Urbach was a distinguished scholar of Judaism. He is best known for his landmark works on rabbinic thought, The Sages, and for research on the Tosafot...

 (1983)
V Zvi Vislevsky (1956) Zev Vilnay
Zev Vilnay
Zev Vilnay was an Israeli geographer, author and lecturer.-Biography:Zev Vilnay was born in Kishinev. He moved to Palestine with his parents at the age of six and grew up in Haifa. He served as a military topographer in the Haganah, and later in the Israel Defense Forces. Vilnay and his wife...

 (1981)
David Vital (2008)
W Meir Wieseltier
Meir Wieseltier
Meir Wieseltier is a prize-winning Israeli poet and translator.-Biography:Meir Wieseltier was born in Moscow in 1941, shortly before the German invasion of Russia. He was taken to Novosibirsk in southwestern Siberia by his mother and two older sisters. His father was killed while serving in the...

 (1994)
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X - -
Y Mordechai Ben Yehezkel (1961)
A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua
Abraham B. Yehoshua is an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. His pen name is A. B. Yehoshua.-Biography:...

 (1989)

Avot Yeshurun (1979)

S. Yizhar
S. Yizhar
Yizhar Smilansky , better known by his pen name S. Yizhar , was an Israeli writer and a great innovator in modern Hebrew literature.His pen name was given to him by the poet and editor Yitzhak Lamdan, when in 1938 he published Yizhar's first story Ephraim Goes Back to Alfalfa in his literary...

 (1991)

Natan Yonatan
Natan Yonatan
Natan Yonatan was an Israeli poet.His poems have been translated from Hebrew and published in more than a dozen languages, among them: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Yiddish....

 (1946)
Avraham Ya’ari (1964)
Shmuel Yeivin
Shmuel Yeivin
Shmuel Yeivin was an Israeli archaeologist.-Biography:Yeivin was born in 1896 in Odessa, in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire...

 (1955)
Israel Jacob Yuval (2002)
Z Nathan Zach
Nathan Zach
Nathan Zach is an Israeli poet.-Biography:Born in Berlin, Germany, to a German father and an Italian mother, Zach immigrated to what was then known as Palestine in 1936 and served in the IDF during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War....

 (1982)
Nurit Zarchi
Nurit Zarchi
Nurit Zarchi is an Israeli poet and author for adults and children....

 (1999)

Zelda (1978)

Ezra Zussman (1968)
Melech Zagrodski (1939)
Moshe Zilberg
Moshe Zilberg
-Biography:Zilberg was born in 1900 near Kaunas in Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire. He studied at various yeshivot, including Klem, Mir, Slabodka and Novardok, and appeared to be somewhat of a prodigy. In 1920, he moved to Frankfurt, Germany and completed his general studies...

(1958)

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