List of Hebrew language poets
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List of Hebrew language
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Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah
Hebrew language
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
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Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
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Golden Age in Spain
- Joseph ibn AbiturJoseph ibn AbiturJoseph ibn Abitur was a Spanish rabbi of around the 9th century. He was a student of Moses ben Hanoch.Abitur was from a very prestigious Spanish family from the city of Mérida. His great great grandfather was a communal and Rabbinic leader. Besides being a great Torah scholar, Abitur was also a...
- Abraham AbulafiaAbraham AbulafiaAbraham ben Samuel Abulafia , the founder of the school of "Prophetic Kabbalah", was born in Zaragoza, Spain, in 1240, and died sometime after 1291, in Comino, Maltese archipelago.-Early life and travels:...
- Meir Halevi AbulafiaMeir AbulafiaMeir ben Todros HaLevi Abulafia , also known as the Ramah , was a major Sephardic Talmudist and Halachic authority in medieval Spain...
- Todros ben Judah Halevi AbulafiaTodros ben Judah Halevi AbulafiaTodros ben Judah Halevi Abulafia was a Jewish poet who wrote primarily in Hebrew. He also wrote poems in Arabic.Abulafia collected his poems in diwan, which he called Gan HaMeshalim veHaHidot . The collection of poems was written mostly in Hebrew and included poems by other authors as well...
- Samuel he-HasidSamuel of SpeyerSamuel ben Kalonymus he-Hasid of Speyer was a Tosafist, liturgical poet, and philosopher of the 12th century, surnamed also "the Prophet" . He seems to have lived in Spain and in France. He is quoted in the tosafot to Yebamot and Soṭah , as well as by Samuel b. Meïr in his commentary on Arbe...
- Todros Abulafia
- Levi ibn Altaban
- Yehuda AlhariziYehuda AlhariziYehuda Alharizi, also Judah ben Solomon Harizi or al-Harizi was a rabbi, translator, poet and traveller active in Spain in the Middle Ages . He was supported by wealthy patrons, to whom he wrote poems and dedicated compositions.He was a rationalist, conveying the works of Maimonides and his...
(1190-12401240 in poetry-Events:*Peire Bremon Ricas Novas and Sordello attack each other in a string of sirventes-Births:* Tran Thanh Tong , Vietnamese poet and ruler* Yunus Emre , Turkish poet and Sufi mystic...
) - Judaben Samuel Halevi (born c. 1086
- Joseph ibn Hisdai
- Dunash ben LabratDunash ben LabratDunash ha-Levi ben Labrat was a medieval Jewish commentator, poet, and grammarian of the Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain. He was, according to Moses ibn Ezra, born in Fes. In his youth he travelled to Bagdad to study with Saadia Gaon.Dunash is called the founder of Spanish Hebrew poetry...
(10th century) - Santob De Carrion (late 14th century), also a proverb writer
- Abraham ibn EzraAbraham ibn EzraRabbi Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra was born at Tudela, Navarre in 1089, and died c. 1167, apparently in Calahorra....
, also known as Abraham ben Meir ibn Ezra (1088-1167), known mainly for Biblical commentaries and grammar works - Isaac ibn Ezra
- Moses ibn EzraMoses ibn EzraRabbi Moses ben Jacob ibn Ezra, known as ha-Sallah was a Jewish, Spanish philosopher, linguist, and poet. He was born at Granada about 1055 – 1060, and died after 1138. Ezra is Jewish by religion but is also considered a great influence in the Arabic world in regards to his works...
(1070-1139) - Solomon Ibn GabirolSolomon ibn GabirolSolomon ibn Gabirol, also Solomon ben Judah , was an Andalucian Hebrew poet and Jewish philosopher with a Neoplatonic bent. He was born in Málaga about 1021; died about 1058 in Valencia.-Biography:...
(1021-1058) - Isaac ibn GhiyyatIsaac ibn GhiyyatIsaac ben Judah ibn Ghiyyat was a Spanish rabbi, Biblical commentator, philosopher, and liturgical poet. He was born and lived in the town of Lucena, where he also headed a rabbinic academy. He died in Cordoba.According to some authorities he was the teacher of Isaac Alfasi; according to...
- Yehuda HaleviYehuda HaleviJudah Halevi was a Spanish Jewish physician, poet and philosopher. He was born in Spain, either in Toledo or Tudela, in 1075 or 1086, and died shortly after arriving in Palestine in 1141...
- Joseph KimhiJoseph KimhiJoseph Ḳimḥi , was a medieval Jewish rabbi and biblical commentator. He was the father of Moses and David Kimhi, and the teacher of Rabbi Menachem Ben Simeon....
(1105-1170), born in Spain, he fled to NarbonneNarbonneNarbonne is a commune in southern France in the Languedoc-Roussillon region. It lies from Paris in the Aude department, of which it is a sub-prefecture. Once a prosperous port, it is now located about from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea...
, ProvenceProvenceProvence ; Provençal: Provença in classical norm or Prouvènço in Mistralian norm) is a region of south eastern France on the Mediterranean adjacent to Italy. It is part of the administrative région of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur...
, where he became known as a grammarian, exegete, poet, and translator. - Shmuel haNagidSamuel ibn NaghrelaSamuel ibn Naghrela , also known as Samuel HaNagid , , was a Talmudic scholar, grammarian, philologist, poet, warrior, and statesman, who lived in Iberia at the time of the Moorish rule....
, also known as Samuel ibn Naghrela or Samuel Ha-Naggid (992-1055) - Isaac ibn Khalfun
- Isaac ibn Mar Shaul
- Joseph ibn Sahl
- Menahem ibn SaruqMenahem ben SaruqMenahem ben Saruq was a Spanish-Jewish philologist of the tenth century CE. He was a skilled poet and polyglot. He was born in Tortosa around 920 and died around 970. Menahem produced an early dictionary of the Hebrew language...
- Joseph ibn Suli
- Joseph ben Jacob ibn Zaddik (died 1149)
Medieval Germany
- Baruch of Worms (early 13th century), liturgical poet and commentator
- Meir ben BaruchMeir of RothenburgMeir of Rothenburg was a German Rabbi and poet, a major author of the tosafot on Rashi's commentary on the Talmud...
, known as Ma'aram of Rothenburg (12151215 in poetry-Events:*Gui de Cavalhon and Raymond VI of Toulouse composed a tenso while on their way to the Fourth Lateran Council-Births:* Guido delle Colonne Sicilian writer, in Latin...
-12931293 in poetry-Events:* The poet-emperor Trần Nhân Tông ends his reign as third emperor of the Trần Dynasty and became Taishang Huang -Deaths:...
), a Talmudist, Tosafist and liturgical poet - Judah Halevi (born c. 1086)
- Judah he-HasidJudah ben Samuel of RegensburgJudah ben Samuel of Regensburg , also called HeHasid or 'the Pious' in Hebrew, was the initiator of the Chassidei Ashkenaz, a movement of Jewish mysticism in Germany....
- Samuel he-Hasid
- Eleazer ben Judah ben KalonymusElazar RokeachEleazar Rokeach , also known as Eleazar of Worms or Eleazar ben Judah ben Kalonymus, was a leading Talmudist and mystic, and the last major member of the Chassidei Ashkenaz, a group of German Jewish pietists.- Biography :...
of Worms (1176-12381238 in poetryThe following events are associated with the year 1238 AD in poetry.-Births:* Yao Sui , writer of Chinese Sanqu poetry and an official* Homam-e Tabrizi born either 1238 or 1239 , Persian poet of the Ilkhanid era-Deaths:...
), a Talmudist, Cabalist, moralist, scientist and poet
Medieval France
- David HakohenDavid HakohenDavid Hakohen was a late thirteenth-century Hebrew liturgical poet from Avignon, who wrote from a Jewish perspective in the troubadouresque tradition. His most published work, "Silence and Praise" , is in the form of a muwashshah, a prelude to prayer. Ironically, the ode pledges that the prayer...
(late 13th century), composer of piyyutim from AvignonAvignonAvignon is a French commune in southeastern France in the départment of the Vaucluse bordered by the left bank of the Rhône river. Of the 94,787 inhabitants of the city on 1 January 2010, 12 000 live in the ancient town centre surrounded by its medieval ramparts.Often referred to as the... - Isaac GorniIsaac GorniIsaac Gorni was a late thirteenth-century Hebrew lyric poet from Aire-sur-l'Adour in Gascony, then ruled by the English Prince Edward. His surname derives from the Hebrew goren, "threshing floor", the Occitan for which is aire, as in his birthplace. He was widely travelled...
(late 13th century), troubadour from Aire-sur-l'AdourAire-sur-l'AdourAire-sur-l'Adour is a commune in the Landes département in Aquitaine in south-western France.It lies on the river Adour in the wine area of southwest France. It is an episcopal see of the Diocese of Aire and Dax. The nearest large towns are Mont-de-Marsan to the north and Pau to the... - Jedaiah ben Abraham BedersiJedaiah ben Abraham BedersiJedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi was a Jewish poet, physician, and philosopher; born at Béziers...
(12701270 in poetry-Events:* Tanaide Mor mac Dúinnín Ó Maolconaire becomes Ollamh Síl Muireadaigh* Three planhs composed for the death of Louis IX of France:**Guilhem d'Autpol composed Fortz tristors es e salvaj'a retraire...
–1340), a poet, philosopher and physician born in BéziersBéziersBéziers is a town in Languedoc in southern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the Hérault department. Béziers hosts the famous Feria de Béziers, centred around bullfighting, every August. A million visitors are attracted to the five-day event... - Joseph ben Isaac Bekor Shor (12th century), a Tosafist, exegete and poet from OrléansOrléans-Prehistory and Roman:Cenabum was a Gallic stronghold, one of the principal towns of the Carnutes tribe where the Druids held their annual assembly. It was conquered and destroyed by Julius Caesar in 52 BC, then rebuilt under the Roman Empire...
Safed, Palestine Cabalists
- Solomon Alkabiz (16th century)
- Israel ben Moses NajaraIsrael ben Moses NajaraIsrael ben Moses Najara was a Jewish liturgical poet, preacher, Biblical commentator, kabbalist, and rabbi of Gaza.- Biography :...
(c. 15551555 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-France:*Joachim du Bellay, Les Regrets, France* Jean Antoine de Baïf, Les Amours de Francine...
- c. 16251625 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Thomas Heywood:...
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Italian Renaissance
- Samuel Archevolti
- Deborah Ascarelli (Seventeenth century)
- Rafael da Faenza
- Immanuel Dei Rossi
- Immanuel FrancesImmanuel FrancesImmanuel Frances was an Italian Jewish poet and rabbinical scholar.Born at Mantua, he received his instruction from his elder brother Jacob Frances and from Joseph Firmo of Ancona. In 1674 he was chosen by some Italian communities to represent them in a case against the heirs of R. Zachariah Porto...
- Jacob Frances
- Immanuel the RomanImmanuel the RomanImmanuel ben Solomon ben Jekuthiel of Rome was an Italian-Jewish scholar and satirical poet. He was a member of a prominent, wealthy family and occupied an important position in Rome, possibly secretary or treasurer of the Jewish community there...
also known as Immanuel ben Solomon and Immanuel of Rome (12701270 in poetry-Events:* Tanaide Mor mac Dúinnín Ó Maolconaire becomes Ollamh Síl Muireadaigh* Three planhs composed for the death of Louis IX of France:**Guilhem d'Autpol composed Fortz tristors es e salvaj'a retraire...
-1330), a satirical poet and scholar - Daniel ben JudahDaniel ben JudahDaniel ben Judah was a Jewish liturgical poet, who lived at Rome in the middle of the fourteenth century CE. He was the grandfather of Daniel ben Samuel ha-Rofe, rabbi at Tivoli....
(late 14th century), liturgical poet - Moshe Chaim LuzzattoMoshe Chaim LuzzattoMoshe Chaim Luzzatto , also known by the Hebrew acronym RaMCHaL , was a prominent Italian Jewish rabbi, kabbalist, and philosopher.-Padua:Born in Padua at night, he received classical Jewish and Italian educations, showing a...
, also known as Moses Hayyim Luzzatto (17071707 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Elizabeth Bradford and William Bradford write prefatory poems for Benjamin Keach's War with the Devil, Colonial America...
-17471747 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Sir William Blackstone, The Panthion, published anonymously, attribution uncertain* William Dunkin, Boeotia...
) - Judah Leone ModenaLeon of ModenaLeon Modena or Yehudah Aryeh Mi-modena was a Jewish scholar born in Venice of a notable French family that had migrated to Italy after an expulsion of Jews from France.-Life:...
, also known as: Leon Modena or Yehudah Aryeh Mi-modena (15711571 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* John Barbour, publication year conjectural, The Bruce, written 1376, posthumously published...
-16481648 in poetryTo the Virgins, to Make Much of Time— First lines from Robert Herrick's To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, first published this year...
), a rabbi, orator, scholar, teacher and poet - Moses da Rieti
- Sarah Copia Sullam (d. 16411641 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier presented Guirlande de Julie, a manuscript of 41 madrigals to Julie d'Angennes this year ; five of the madrigals were written by Sainte-Maure; the other...
) - Joseph Zarfati
Jewish Enlightenment (HaskalahHaskalahHaskalah , the Jewish Enlightenment, was a movement among European Jews in the 18th–19th centuries that advocated adopting enlightenment values, pressing for better integration into European society, and increasing education in secular studies, Hebrew language, and Jewish history...
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- Isaac ErterIsaac ErterIsaac Erter was a Polish-Jewish satirist.He was born at Janischok, Galicia. The first part of his life was full of struggles and hardships...
(17921792 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* William Blake, Song of Liberty...
-18511851 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published in English:-United Kingdom:* Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Poems Posthumous and Collected...
) satirist and poet - Mordecai Aaron Ginzberg
- Judah Leib GordonJudah Leib GordonJudah Leib Gordon, also known as Leon Gordon, was among the most important Hebrew poets of the Jewish Enlightenment....
, also known as "Judah Löb ben Asher Gordon" or "Leon Gordon" (18311831 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* John Banim and Michael Banim, The Chaunt of the Cholera* Henry Glassford Bell, Summer and Winter Hours...
-18921892 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* William Butler Yeats founds the Irish Literary Society in Dublin....
) - Abraham Baer Gottlober (18111811 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* March 25 — Oxford University expels Percy Bysshe Shelley after Shelley and Thomas Jefferson Hogg refuse to answer questions about The Necessity of Atheism, a pamphlet they wrote.-Lord Byron:*...
-18991899 in poetry— Opening lines of Rudyard Kipling's White Man's Burden, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:...
) - Abraham Dob Bär LebensohnAbraham Dob Bär LebensohnAbraham Dob Bär Lebensohn was a Russian Hebraist, poet, and grammarian.-Life:...
(17891789 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Ireland:* Charlotte Brooke, Reliques of Irish Poetry, anthology published in the United Kingdom...
-18781878 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Notorious American poetaster Julia A. Moore publishes her second collection, A Few Choice Words to the Public, but unlike her bestseller of 1876, The Sweet Singer of Michigan Salutes the Public, it ...
) - Micah Joseph LebensohnMicah Joseph LebensohnMicah Joseph Lebensohn Russian Hebrew poet.His father, the poet Abraham Bär Lebensohn, implanted in him the love of Hebrew poetry, and Micah Joseph began very early to translate and to compose Hebrew songs. He suffered from consumption during the last five or six years of his short life...
(18281828 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Southern Review, an American quarterly literary magazine, begins publication in Charleston, South Carolina, it champions Southern culture and literature -Works published:-United...
-18521852 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems* Alfred Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington...
) - Meir Halevi Letteris (18001800 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 10 – The Serampore Mission and Press is established in Serampore India by Baptist missionaries Joshua Marshman and William Ward...
-18711871 in poetry— From Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky", published as part of Through the Looking GlassNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published in English:-United Kingdom:...
) - Isaac Baer LevinsohnIsaac Baer LevinsohnIsaac Baer Levinsohn , born Kremenetz, October 13, 1788; died there, February 12, 1860, was a notable Russian-Hebrew scholar, satirist, writer and Haskalah leader. He was called "the Russian Mendelssohn"...
(17881788 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:This year three works of poetry, all written by women , condemned slavery:...
-18601860 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* Charles Heavysege, Count Filippo* Charles Sangster, Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics-United Kingdom:...
) - Samuel David LuzzattoSamuel David LuzzattoSamuel David Luzzatto was an Italian Jewish scholar, poet, and a member of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement. He is also known by his Hebrew acronym, Shadal ....
(18001800 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 10 – The Serampore Mission and Press is established in Serampore India by Baptist missionaries Joshua Marshman and William Ward...
-18651865 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, First Series, including "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"...
) - Rahel Luzzatto Morpurgo (17901790 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Henry James Pye became Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom...
-18711871 in poetry— From Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky", published as part of Through the Looking GlassNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published in English:-United Kingdom:...
) - Süsskind RaschkowSüsskind RaschkowSüsskind Raschkow was a German poet of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. He was the author of the following works: "Yosef v'Asenat," a drama ; "Hayye Shimshon," an epic poem ; and "Tal Yaldut," poems and proverbs ....
- Constantin Shapiro (18411841 in poetryThe year's at the spring,And day's at the morn;Morning's at seven;The hill-side's dew-pearled;The lark's on the wing;The snail's on the thorn;God's in his Heaven -All's right with the world!...
-19001900 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* In February, Myōjō , a monthly literary magazine, begins publication in Japan. between February 1900 and November 1908...
) - Hermann WassertrillingHermann WassertrillingHermann Wassertrilling, or Hebrew: Ẓebi-Hirsch ben Nathan Wassertrilling, Hirsch Wassertrilling was an Austrian Hebraist who flourished in the 19th century....
- Naphtali Hirz WesselyNaphtali Hirz WesselyNaphtaliHerz Wessely, aka NaphtaliHirz Wessely, also Wesel was a 18th-century German Jewish Hebraist and educationist born at Hamburg.-Family History:...
(17251725 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Scottish poet James Thomson moves to London, where he continues writing verse and becomes a playwright, living first in East Barnet and later Richmond in 1736.* Edward Taylor, a puritan minister in...
-18051805 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Sir Roger Newdigate founds the Newdigate Prize for English Poetry at Oxford University...
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- Shimon AdafShimon AdafShimon Adaf is an Israeli poet and author born in Sderot.Shimon Adaf's first book of poetry, Icarus' Monologue won a prize from the Israeli Ministry of Education. In 1996–2000, Adaf studied at Tel Aviv University, simultaneously writing articles on literature, film and rock music for Israeli...
(b. 19721972 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* John Betjeman becomes Poet Laureate...
), Israeli poet and author - Shmuel Yosef AgnonShmuel Yosef AgnonShmuel 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...
- Lea AiniLea AiniLea 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...
- Nathan AltermanNathan AltermanNathan 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:...
, also known as Natan Alterman (19101910 in poetry— closing lines of Rudyard Kipling's If—, first published this year in Rewards and FairiesNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:...
-19701970 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* May – "La nuit de la poésie", a poetry reading in Montreal bringing together poets from French Canada to recite before an audience of more than 2,000 in the Théâtre du Gesu, lasting until 7...
), Israeli journalist, translator and popular poet - Ronen Altman KaydarRonen Altman KaydarRonen Elimelech Altman Kaydar is an Israeli writer and poet.The topics of his academic and artistic writing include science fiction, sexual identity, philosophy of science, history of science and more...
(b. 19721972 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* John Betjeman becomes Poet Laureate...
) - Yehudah Amichai (19241924 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* October 10 — Ezra Pound leaves Paris permanently and moves to Rapallo, Italy...
-20002000 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Griffin Poetry Prize is established, with one award given each year for the best work by a Canadian poet and one award given for best work in the English language internationally.* February —...
) Israeli poet and one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew - Aharon AmirAharon AmirAharon Amir was an Israeli Hebrew poet, a literary translator and a writer.- Biography :Amir was born in Kaunas, Lithuania. He moved to Palestine with his family in 1933 and grew up in Tel Aviv. His father,...
- Aharon AppelfeldAharon 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...
- Roy AradRoy AradRoy "Chicky" Arad is an Israeli poet, singer, script-writer and artist.-Poetry:Arad has published three books. In his first book, “The Nigger”, he formed a style that he called "Kimo" and defined as "a Hebrew adaptation of the Japanese Haiku": it consists of three lines of 10, 7, and 6 syllables...
- Dan ArmonDan ArmonDan Armon, Israeli poet, was born in Jerusalem in 1948, the year Israel gained independence. He studied literature and theater at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has published four books of poems.-External links:*...
- David AvidanDavid AvidanDavid Avidan was an Israeli "poet, painter, filmmaker, publicist, and playwright" . He wrote 20 published books of Hebrew poetry.-Biography and literary career:...
(19341934 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Barretts of Wimpole Street, a film directed by Sidney Franklin, with Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett and Fredric March as Robert Browning; redone in 1957, less successfully*The University...
–19951995 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* February 16 — Announcement that 300 poems by S.T...
), Israeli poet, painter, filmmaker, publicist and playwright
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- Simon BacherSimon BacherSimon Bacher was a Hungarian Neo-Hebraic poet.Bacher, whose name was originally Bachrach, came of a family of scholars, and counted as one of his ancestors the well-known Moravian-German rabbi Jair Ḥayyim Bacharach. He studied Talmud in his native city, and in Mikulov under Menahem Nahum...
- Yocheved Bat-MiriamYocheved Bat-MiriamYocheved 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...
(19011901 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* a small plaque is set on the Statue of Liberty to display Emma Lazarus' 1883 poem, "The New Colossus"...
–19791979 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Kenyon Review is restarted by Kenyon College 10 years after the original publication was closed....
), German-born Israeli - Menahem BenMenahem BenMenahem Ben is an Israeli poet and journalist and an outspoken literary and culture critic. He is a frequent op-ed contributor and authors two weekly columns, on culture and literature, in the Maariv daily newspaper, as well as a monthly book review page in that paper's literary...
(Braun) - Itamar Ben CanaanItamar Ben CanaanItamar Ben Canaan is the pen name of Ithamar Handelman Smith, a Jewish writer, publicist, filmmaker and play-writer based in Paris...
- Yakir Ben MosheYakir Ben MosheYakir Ben Moshe is an Israeli poet and, since 2000, editor of Beit Bialik, Tel Aviv. His first book, Every Morning at Least One Blond Guy Becomes Bald, was published in 2003 and won the Culture Minister's prize the same year.-References:...
- Avraham Ben-YitzhakAvraham Ben-YitzhakAvraham Ben-Yitzhak was an Israeli Hebrew poet.He was born Avraham Sonne, on September 13, 1883 in Przemyśl, Galicia, a region of Eastern Europe which has changed hands throughout history between Austria and Poland. In his youth, Przemyśl was part of the Austrian Empire, and he moved to Vienna to...
- Reuven Ben-YosefReuven Ben-YosefReuven Ben-Yosef was an Israeli poet-Biography:Ben-Yosef was born Robert Eliot Reiss, the son of Joseph and Cecilia Reiss, in New York City on May 31, 1937....
- Fania BergsteinFania BergsteinFania Bergstein was a Hebrew poet, born in 1908 in Szczuczyn, Congress Poland, Russian Empire. Fania Bergstein participated in the Zionist youth movement He-Halutz Hatzair. In 1930 she immigrated to British Mandate of Palestine, and joined Kibbutz Gvat. She died of heart failure at the age of 42,...
- Haim Nachman BialikBialikBialik was originally a Polish/Czech surname before it was adopted by the Jewish population. The name probably originated from the Polish word Biały...
(18731873 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Alexander Anderson, A Song of Labour, and Other Poems...
-19341934 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Barretts of Wimpole Street, a film directed by Sidney Franklin, with Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett and Fredric March as Robert Browning; redone in 1957, less successfully*The University...
) - Ya'qub BilbulYa'qub BilbulYa'qub Bilbul was an Iraqi Jewish writer. His literary works were published in Arabic, and he achieved recognition as early as 1936 after publishing an article in the Iraqi journal, Al-Hatif...
- Erez BitonErez BitonErez Biton is an Hebrew poet. Born in North Africa, he immigrated to Israel in 1948. At the age of 10, he was blinded by a stray hand grenade that he found. He spent the rest of his childhood in Jerusalem's Institute for the Blind. He received a degree in social work from The Hebrew University of...
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- Ya'akov CahanYa'akov Cohen (writer)Ya'akov Cohen was an Israeli poet, playwright, translator, writer and Hebrew linguist.- Early life :...
(18811881 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Frederick James Furnivall founds the Browning Society-Canada:...
-19601960 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* August Derleth launches the poetry magazine, Hawk and Whippoorwill....
) - T. CarmiT. 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...
- Rahel Chalfi
- Sami Shalom ChetritSami Shalom ChetritSami Shalom Chetrit is a Moroccan- born Hebrew poet and Israeli social and peace activist.-Biography:Sami Shalom Chetrit was born in Errachedia, Morocco. His family moved to Israel when he was 3 years old. He grew up in Ashdod...
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- Jacob FichmanJacob FichmanJacob Fichman also transliterated as Yakov Fichman , was an acclaimed Hebrew poet, essayist and literary critic.-Biography:Fichman was born in Botoşani, Romania in 1881...
(18811881 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Frederick James Furnivall founds the Browning Society-Canada:...
-19581958 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Brazilian manifesto for concrete poetry, which focuses on visual and other sensory qualities...
) a critic, essayist and poet - Ezra FleischerEzra FleischerEzra Fleischer was a Romanian-Israeli Hebrew-language poet and philologist.- Biography :...
- Simeon Samuel Frug (18601860 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* Charles Heavysege, Count Filippo* Charles Sangster, Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics-United Kingdom:...
-19221922 in poetry— Opening lines from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry established...
), wrote in Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew
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- Yehonatan GeffenYehonatan GeffenYehonatan Geffen also known as Yonatan Gefen, is an Israeli author, poet, songwriter, journalist, and playwright.- Biography :...
- Mordechai GeldmanMordechai 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...
- Amir GilboaAmir GilboaAmir Gilboa was a prominent Israeli Hebrew poet, born in Ukraine.-Biography:...
- Simon Ginzburg (18901890 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .- Events :* Rhymer's Club founded in London by William Butler Yeats and Ernest Rhys as a group of like-minded poets who met regularly and published anthologies in 1892 and 1894; attendees included Ernest...
-19441944 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The first and second lines of Paul Verlaine's 1866 poem Chanson d'automne were broadcast by the Allies over Radio Londres this year as a message in code to the...
) - Haim GouriHaim GouriHaim 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...
- Leah GoldbergLeah GoldbergLeah Goldberg was a prolific Hebrew poet, author, playwright, literary translator, and comparative literary researcher. Her writings are considered classics of Israeli literature and remain very popular among Hebrew speaking Israelis.-Biography:...
(19111911 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Britain establishes six copyright libraries to which copies of all books published in the country must be sent: Bodleian Library ; British Library ; National Library of Scotland ; National Library of...
-19701970 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* May – "La nuit de la poésie", a poetry reading in Montreal bringing together poets from French Canada to recite before an audience of more than 2,000 in the Théâtre du Gesu, lasting until 7...
), born in Lithuania, emigrated to Israel - Uri Zvi GreenbergUri Zvi GreenbergUri Zvi Grinberg was an acclaimed Israeli poet and journalist who wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew.-Biography:Uri Zvi Grinberg was born in Bialikamin, Galicia, then Austria-Hungary, into a prominent Hasidic family. He was raised in Lemberg . Some of his poems in Yiddish and Hebrew were published...
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- Simon HalkinSimon HalkinSimon Halkin was an Israeli poet, novelist, teacher, and translator.- Biography :Simon Halkin was born in Dovsk near Rogachev , then in the Russian Empire in 1899. He emigrated to New York City with his family in 1914. He lived and studied in the United States from 1914 to 1932...
- Avigdor HameiriAvigdor HameiriAvigdor Hameiri was an Israeli author.-Biography:Hameiri was born Avigdor Feuerstein in 1890 in the village of Odavidhaza , Carpathian Ruthenia in Austria Hungary. He emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1921, where he became one of the original 16,000 1948 freedom fighters...
(18861886 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Frederick James Furnivall founds the Shelley Society...
-19701970 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* May – "La nuit de la poésie", a poetry reading in Montreal bringing together poets from French Canada to recite before an audience of more than 2,000 in the Théâtre du Gesu, lasting until 7...
), born in Carpato-Russ and emigrated to Israel in 1921; also a novelist - Hedva HarekhaviHedva HarekhaviHedva Harekhavi, Israeli poet and artist, was born in 1941 in Degania B, one of the oldest kibbutzim in Israel. A graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art, she has lived in Jerusalem most of her life and has so far published four volumes of poetry...
- Shulamith HarevenShulamith HarevenShulamith Hareven was an Israeli author and essayist.She was born in Warsaw, Poland, to a Zionist family. She immigrated to the Land of Israel with her parents in 1940....
- Paul HartalPaul HartalPaul Hartal is a Canadian painter and poet, born in Szeged, Hungary. He has created the term "Lyrical Conceptualism" to characterize his style in both painting and poetry, and has created a manifesto to describe his thesis....
- Galit Hasan-RokemGalit Hasan-RokemGalit Hassan Rokem is a full professor in the Hebrew Literature department in the Hebrew University.Hassan Rokem completed her doctorate at Hebrew University under Prof. Noy, is a specialist in the proverb genre...
- Haim HazazHaim HazazHaim 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....
- Haim HeferHaim Hefer-Biography:Hefer was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1925 to Issachar Feiner, a chocolate salesman, and Rivka Herzberg, a housewife. He had a private Hebrew tutor....
- Daliyah HertsDaliyah HertsDaliyah Herts is an Israeli poet.Daliyah Herts received an MA in Philosophy from Tel Aviv University. She taught Philosophy for several years. She edited and presented literary programs on Israel Radio, published several books of poetry, and wrote two plays...
- Amira HessAmira HessAmira Hess is an Israeli poet and artist. Arriving in Israel in 1951, she first lived in an immigrant transit camp, then moved to Jerusalem, where she still lives today. Her first book, And the Moon is Dripping Madness, was awarded the Luria Prize...
- Ayin Hillel
- Yair HurvitzYair HurvitzYair Hurvitz was an Israeli poet who began publishing poetry in the 1960's. His poems mark a return to the tradition of Haim Nachman Bialik...
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- Naphtali Herz Imber (18561856 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Elizabeth Barrett Browning:** Aurora Leigh** Poems...
-19091909 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Andrew Cecil Bradley, Oxford Lectures on Poetry* Founding of the Poetry Recital Society...
), the author of Hatikvah ("The Hope"), called "the Jewish national hymn"
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- Yehudit KafriYehudit KafriYehudit Kafri Meiri is a 20th century Israeli poet and a writer.She was born in 1935 and lived as a child in Kibbutz Ein HaHoresh in the Galilee area of Israel. After she got married, she moved to Kibbutz Sasa where she wrote her first book, called...
- Ben Kalman, see Abraham Reisen
- Yitzhak KatzenelsonYitzhak KatzenelsonItzhak Katzenelson נעלסאָן was a Jewish teacher, poet and dramatist. He was born in 1886 in Karelichy near Minsk, and was murdered May 1, 1944 in Auschwitz.Soon after his birth Katzenelson's family moved to Łódź, Poland, where he grew up...
, alternate English spelling, "Isaac Katzenelson" (18861886 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Frederick James Furnivall founds the Shelley Society...
-19441944 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The first and second lines of Paul Verlaine's 1866 poem Chanson d'automne were broadcast by the Allies over Radio Londres this year as a message in code to the...
), perished in Auschwitz, where he wrote a famous poem about the extermination of the Jews - Admiel KosmanAdmiel KosmanAdmiel Kosman is an Israeli poet and professor of Talmud.-Biography:Admiel Kosman was born in Haifa, Israel to an Orthodox Jewish family. His father hailed from a German Jewish family living in France, and his mother immigrated from Iraq...
- Abba KovnerAbba KovnerAbba Kovner was a Lithuanian Jewish Hebrew poet, writer, and partisan leader. He became one of the great poets of modern Israel. He was a cousin of the Israeli Communist Party leader Meir Vilner.-Biography:...
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- Yitzhak LamdanYitzhak LamdanYitzhak Lamdan was an Israeli poet, translator, editor and Hebrew columnist.- Biography :...
(18991899 in poetry— Opening lines of Rudyard Kipling's White Man's Burden, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:...
-19541954 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Robert Creeley founds and edits the Black Mountain Review...
) - Yitzhak LaorYitzhak LaorYitzhak Laor, is an Israeli poet, author and journalist. He is the author of . He is mostly known for his poetry of political protest, particularly about the Lebanese War of 1982 and the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories...
(born 19481948 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Sometime this year, Jack Kerouac introduced the phrase Beat Generation to describe his friends and as a general term describing the underground, anti-conformist youth gathering in New York at that...
) Israeli poet, author, and journalist - Haim LenskyHaim LenskyHaim Lensky , also Hayyim Lensky, was a Russian poet who wrote in Hebrew. He wrote the bulk of his verse while imprisoned in several Soviet labor camps from 1934 onward....
also known as "Hayyim Lensky" (19051905 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Ezra Pound presents Hilda Doolittle with a sheaf of love poems with the collective title Hilda's Book...
–19421942 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* George Oppen forces his induction into the U.S. Army....
or 19431943 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* September 12 – Abraham Sutzkever, a Polish Jew writing poetry in Yiddish, escapes the Vilna Ghetto with his wife and hides in the forests. Sutzkever and fellow Yiddish poet Shmerke...
), Russian poet who wrote in Hebrew; imprisoned in Soviet labor camps after 1934, where he wrote most of his verse - Giora LeshemGiora LeshemGiora Leshem was an award-winning Israeli poet and translator and one of the founders of the Keshev poetry publishing house. At the time of his death, Keshev was the largest independent book publisher in Israel.- Education and experience :Leshem was born in Tel Aviv, British Mandate Palestine...
- Hezi LeskaliHezi LeskaliHezi Leskali was born in Rehovot, Israel. He studied dancing and art in Holland. He worked as a painter and a choreographer, and published four books of poems. In 1992 he published Dutch Poetry - Four Imagined Dutch Poets and a Nonexistent Israeli Poet.-References:* The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself,...
- Amasai LevinAmasai LevinAmasai Levin was an Israeli poet and translator. Levin is perhaps best known for his lyrics for Badad , a popular Hebrew song, famous for its performance by Zohar Argov and the subject of many subsequent renditions....
- Hanoch LevinHanoch LevinHanoch 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 :...
- Judah Lob Levin (18451845 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 10—Robert Browning, 32, and Elizabeth Barrett, 38, begin their correspondence when she receives a note declaring "I love you" from Browning, a little-known poet whose verses she had...
-19251925 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* T. S. Eliot joins the publishing house of Faber & Gwyer, leaves Lloyds bank....
) - Ephraim Lisitzky (18851885 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* Frederick George Scott, Justin and Other Poems. Published at author's expense.-United Kingdom:...
-19621962 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Writers in the Soviet Union this year were allowed to publish criticism of Joseph Stalin and were given more freedom generally, although many were severely criticized for doing so...
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- Meir Leibush Malbim (18091809 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Lord Byron, "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers", his anonymous response to the Edinburgh Review's attack on his 1807 work, Hours of Idleness; this year's response created considerable stir...
-18791879 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia; or, The Great Renunciation...
), notable Russian Bible commentator who wrote some poetry in Hebrew - Salomon MandelkernSalomon MandelkernSalomon Mandelkern was a Ukrainian Jewish poet and author.He was educated as a Talmudist. After his father's death he went to Dubno , where he continued his Talmudical studies...
(18461846 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* William Barnes, Poems, Partly of Rural Life...
-19021902 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Hilda Doolittle meets and befriends Ezra Pound* Times Literary Supplement begins publication-Canada:* James B...
), Ukrainian poet and scholar; author of the Hebrew concordance, Hekal Hakodesh - Mordecai Zevi Manne (18591859 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* William Barnes:** Hwomely Rhymes ** The Song of Solomon in the Dorset Dialect...
-18861886 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Frederick James Furnivall founds the Shelley Society...
) - Reda MansourReda MansourReda Mansour is a Druze Israeli poet, historian and Diplomat. He has published three books of Hebrew poetry and received the University of Haifa Miller Award as well as the State President Scholarship for young writers....
- Salman MasalhaSalman MasalhaSalman Masalha is a poet, writer, essayist and translator. He is Druze citizen of Israel. Masalha is a bilingual writer who writes in Arabic and Hebrew, and publishes in both languages...
- Margalit MatitiahuMargalit MatitiahuMargalit Matitiahu is a poet in Ladino and Hebrew from Israel.After the Holocaust, her parents moved to Israel from Thessaloniki, Greece where they were Sephardi Jews who were descendants of Jews from León...
- Agi MisholAgi MisholAgi Mishol is an Israeli poet.-Biography:Mishol was born in Transylvania, Romania, to Hungarian-speaking parents and brought to Israel as a young child. Her parents ran a grocery store in Gedera and spoke mainly Hungarian at home. Mishol holds BA and MA degrees in Hebrew literature from Hebrew...
(b. 19471947 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time....
) Hungarian-born Israeli poet
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- Dan PagisDan PagisDan Pagis was an Israeli poet, lecturer and holocaust survivor. He was born in Rădăuţi, Bukovina in Romania and imprisoned as a child in a concentration camp in Ukraine...
- Alexander PennAlexander Penn-Early years:Penn was born in Nizhne Kolymsk, Russia. As a youth, he was a boxer. He moved to Moscow in 1920, to study cinema, and published his first poems in Russian that year. In 1927, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine...
- Isaac Loeb Peretz (18511851 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published in English:-United Kingdom:* Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Poems Posthumous and Collected...
-19151915 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Russian poet Sergei Yesenin , published his first book of poems titled "Radumitsa."...
) wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish - Israel PinkasIsrael PinkasIsrael Pincas is an Israeli poet.-Biography:Pincas was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1935. He lost his father at the age of 6. As a boy, he emigrated as to the Mandate Palestine with his mother in 1944. He lives in Tel Aviv....
- Anda Pinkerfeld AmirAnda Pinkerfeld AmirAnda Pinkerfeld Amir was an Israeli poet and author. She is best remembered in Israel as a children's writer.-Biography:Anda Pinkerfeld was born in Rzeszow, Poland in 1902. Her father worked as an architect for the Austro-Hungarian government. Her family was secular, and did not provide a Jewish...
- Elisha PoratElisha PoratElisha Porat , is a Hebrew poet and writer. He has published 19 volumes of fiction and poetry, in Hebrew, since 1973 and won the 1996 Israel's Prime Minister's Prize for Literature. His works have appeared in translation in Israel, the United States, Canada and England...
- Daniel Preil (19111911 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Britain establishes six copyright libraries to which copies of all books published in the country must be sent: Bodleian Library ; British Library ; National Library of Scotland ; National Library of...
- ) - Gabriel PreilGabriel PreilGabriel Preil was a modern Hebrew poet active in the United States, who wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish. He was the last of the Haskala poets. The critic Yael Feldman has done significant work on Preil, focusing on the Yiddish influences in his Hebrew poetry...
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- Rachel (Hebrew: רחל) in English, sometimes transcribed as "Ra'hel" or "Rahel", also known as "Rachel the poetess" (Hebrew: רחל המשוררת), pen name of Rachel Bluwstein Sela (18901890 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .- Events :* Rhymer's Club founded in London by William Butler Yeats and Ernest Rhys as a group of like-minded poets who met regularly and published anthologies in 1892 and 1894; attendees included Ernest...
–19311931 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Louis Zukofsky edits the February issue of Poetry magazine. The issue eventually will be recognized as the founding document of the Objectivist poets...
), poet who immigrated to Palestine in 1909 - Yonatan RatoshYonatan RatoshUriel Shelach , better known by his pen name Yonatan Ratosh , was an Israeli poet and the founder of the Canaanite movement.-Biography :...
- Dahlia Rabikovitch
- Janice RebiboJanice RebiboJanice Silverman Rebibo is a Boston-born Israeli poet who began writing in Hebrew in the mid-1980s.Janice Silverman Rebibo’s poems have been admired for having, “a new strength and the kind of courage that comprises a strategic breakthrough, a stance of both audacity and humor that adds something...
- Abraham RegelsonAbraham RegelsonAbraham 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...
- Abraham Reisen (18701870 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Edward Lear, Nonsense Songs, stories, Botany, and Alphabets * William Morris, The Earthly Paradise, Part...
-19531953 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen and Harold L...
) Russian native who emigrated to the United States; prolific poet and prose writer; pen name: Ben Kalman - Tuvya Ruebner
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- Rami SaariRami SaariRami Saari is an Israeli poet, translator, linguist and literary critic.-Biography:Saari studied Semitic and Uralic languages at the Universities of Helsinki, Budapest and Jerusalem. He did his PhD in linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His doctoral thesis, "Maltese Prepositions",...
- Yossi SaridYossi SaridYossi Sarid is a left-wing Israeli news commentator and former politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment, Ratz and Meretz between 1974 and 2006...
- Zalman ShneurZalman ShneurZalman 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...
(18871887 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* George Frederick Cameron, Lyrics on Freedom, Love and Death, posthumously published ....
-19591959 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* In the United States, "Those serious new Bohemians, the beatniks, occupied with reading their deliberately undisciplined, protesting verse in night clubs and hotel ballrooms, created more publicity...
), novelist and poet - A. A. Schwartz (18461846 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* William Barnes, Poems, Partly of Rural Life...
-19311931 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Louis Zukofsky edits the February issue of Poetry magazine. The issue eventually will be recognized as the founding document of the Objectivist poets...
) - Aharon ShabtaiAharon ShabtaiAharon Shabtai is one of the Hebrew language's leading poets, as well as a translator of Greek drama into Hebrew.-Biography:...
- Yaakov ShabtaiYaakov ShabtaiYaakov Shabtai was an Israeli novelist, playwright, and translator.-Biography:Shabtai was born in 1934 in Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine. In 1957, after completing military service, he joined Kibbutz Merhavia, but returned to Tel Aviv in 1967....
- Amnon Shamossh
- Zalman ShazarZalman ShazarZalman Shazar was an Israeli politician, author. and poet. Shazar served as the third President of Israel from 1963 to 1973.-Biography:...
- Naomi ShemerNaomi ShemerNaomi Shemer was a leading Israeli songwriter hailed as the "first lady of Israeli song and poetry."-Biography:Naomi Sapir was born on Kvutzat Kinneret, a kibbutz her parents had helped found, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. In the 1950s she served in the Israeli Defense Force's Nahal...
- David Shimonowitz, also known as "David ShimoniDavid ShimoniDavid 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...
" (18861886 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Frederick James Furnivall founds the Shelley Society...
-19561956 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* February 27—Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath meet in Cambridge...
) - Abraham Shlonsky
- Ronny SomeckRonny SomeckRonny Someck is an Israeli poet and author, whose works have been translated into many languages.-Biography:Someck was born in Baghdad and came to Israel as a young child. He studied Hebrew literature and philosophy at Tel Aviv University and drawing at the Avni Academy of Art...
- Jacob SteinbergJacob SteinbergJacob Steinberg was a major Ukrainian-born Israeli poet. He moved to the Land of Israel in 1915. He defied trends in two significant ways: his poetry was individualistic rather than nationalistic, and he wrote in the Ashkenazic dialect rather than the Sephardic dialect, which became the accepted...
(18871887 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* George Frederick Cameron, Lyrics on Freedom, Love and Death, posthumously published ....
-19481948 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Sometime this year, Jack Kerouac introduced the phrase Beat Generation to describe his friends and as a general term describing the underground, anti-conformist youth gathering in New York at that...
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- Shaul TchernichovskyShaul TchernichovskyShaul 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 known as Saul Tchernihowsky* (18751875 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*October 1 - American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe is reburied in Westminster Hall and Burying Ground with a larger memorial marker...
-19431943 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* September 12 – Abraham Sutzkever, a Polish Jew writing poetry in Yiddish, escapes the Vilna Ghetto with his wife and hides in the forests. Sutzkever and fellow Yiddish poet Shmerke...
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- Nathan ZachNathan ZachNathan 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....
- Nurit ZarchiNurit ZarchiNurit Zarchi is an Israeli poet and author for adults and children....
- ZeldaZelda Schneersohn MishkovskyZelda Schneersohn Mishkovsky , widely known as Zelda, was an Israeli poet. She received three awards for her published works.-Biography:...
- Eliezer Zebi Zweifel (18151815 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* February 2 — Leigh Hunt released from prison after being jailed for criticizing the Prince Regent in The Examiner...
-18881888 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:*William Wilfred Campbell, Snowflakes and sunbeams. St. Stephen, NB: St. Croix Courier Press. Published at author's expense....
), also a Russian scholar, comentator and defender of Hassidism - Eliakum ZunserEliakum ZunserEliakum Zunser , was a Lithuanian Jewish Yiddish-language poet, songwriter, and badchen who lived out the last part of his life in U.S.. A 1905 article in the New York Times lauded him as "the father of Yiddish poetry". About a quarter of his roughly 600 songs survive...
(18361836 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Bernard Barton and Lucy Barton, The Reliquary...
-19131913 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 8—Harold Monro founds the Poetry Bookshop in London...
) wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish - Stephan Zweig (18811881 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Frederick James Furnivall founds the Browning Society-Canada:...
-19421942 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* George Oppen forces his induction into the U.S. Army....
), born in Vienna; also a biographer and dramatist - Zvi YairZvi YairZvi Yair is the pen-name of the Hebrew poet and Chassidic scholar, Rabbi Zvi Meir Steinmetz . Zvi Yair was a Jewish poet who wrote in Hebrew.-Biography:...
See also
- The Modern Hebrew Poem ItselfThe Modern Hebrew Poem ItselfThe Modern Hebrew Poem Itself is an anthology of modern Hebrew poetry, presented in the original language, with a transliteration into Roman script, a literal translation into English, and commentaries and explanations....