List of Hebrew-language poets

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List of Hebrew language poets (year links are to corresponding "[year] in poetry" article):

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Biblical[]

  • Moses
  • King David
  • King Solomon
  • Jeremiah

Early Middle Ages[]

  • Eleazar ha-Kalir
  • Jose b. Jose
  • Yannai

Golden Age in Spain[]

  • Joseph ibn Abitur
  • Abraham Abulafia
  • Meir Halevi Abulafia
  • Todros ben Judah Halevi Abulafia
  • Samuel he-Hasid
  • Todros Abulafia
  • Yehuda Alharizi (1190-1240)[1]
  • (born c. 1086)[1]
  • Dunash ben Labrat (10th century)[1]
  • Santob De Carrion (late 14th century), also a proverb writer[1]
  • Abraham ibn Ezra, also known as Abraham ben Meir ibn Ezra (1088-1167), known mainly for Biblical commentaries and grammar works[1]
  • Moses ibn Ezra (1070-1139)[1]
  • Solomon Ibn Gabirol (1021-1058)[1]
  • Isaac ibn Ghiyyat
  • Yehuda Halevi
  • Joseph Kimhi (1105-1170), born in Spain, he fled to Narbonne, Provence, where he became known as a grammarian, exegete, poet, and translator.[1]
  • Shmuel haNagid, also known as Samuel ibn Naghrela or Samuel Ha-Naggid (992-1055)[1]
  • Menahem ibn Saruq
  • Joseph ben Jacob ibn Zaddik (died 1149)

Medieval Germany[]

  • Baruch of Worms (early 13th century), liturgical poet and commentator[2]
  • Meir ben Baruch, known as Ma'aram of Rothenburg (1215-1293), a Talmudist, Tosafist and liturgical poet[1]
  • Judah Halevi (born c. 1086)
  • Judah he-Hasid
  • Eleazer ben Judah ben Kalonymus of Worms (1176-1238), a Talmudist, Cabalist, moralist, scientist and poet[1]

Medieval France[]

Safed Cabalists[]

Italian Renaissance[]

  • Deborah Ascarelli (17th century)[1]
  • Immanuel Frances
  • Immanuel the Roman also known as Immanuel ben Solomon and Immanuel of Rome (1270-1330), a satirical poet and scholar[1]
  • Daniel ben Judah (late 14th century), liturgical poet[2]
  • Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, also known as Moses Hayyim Luzzatto (1707-1747)
  • Judah Leone Modena, also known as: Leon Modena or Yehudah Aryeh Mi-modena (1571-1648), a rabbi, orator, scholar, teacher and poet[1]
  • Sara Copia Sullam (died 1641)[1]

North Africa and Yemen[]

  • Shalom Shabazi

Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah)[]

Modern Hebrew[]

A[]

  • Shimon Adaf (born 1972), Israeli poet and author
  • Shmuel Yosef Agnon
  • Ada Aharoni
  • Lea Aini
  • Nathan Alterman, also known as Natan Alterman (1910-1970), Israeli journalist, translator and popular poet
  • Ronen Altman Kaydar (born 1972)
  • Yehudah Amichai (1924-2000), Israeli poet and one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew
  • Aharon Amir
  • Aharon Appelfeld
  • Roy Arad
  • Dan Armon
  • David Avidan (1934–1995), Israeli poet, painter, filmmaker, publicist and playwright

B[]

  • Simon Bacher
  • Yocheved Bat-Miriam (1901–1979), German-born Israeli
  • Menahem Ben (Braun)
  • Itamar Ben Canaan
  • Yakir Ben Moshe
  • Avraham Ben-Yitzhak
  • Reuven Ben-Yosef
  • Fania Bergstein
  • Haim Nachman Bialik (1873-1934)[1]
  • Ya'qub Bilbul
  • Erez Biton

C[]

D[]

E[]

  • Dror Elimelech

F[]

  • Jacob Fichman (1881-1958) a critic, essayist and poet[1]
  • Ezra Fleischer
  • Simeon Samuel Frug (1860-1922), wrote in Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew[1]

G[]

  • Yehonatan Geffen
  • Mordechai Geldman
  • Amir Gilboa
  • (1890-1944)[1]
  • Haim Gouri
  • Leah Goldberg (1911-1970), born in Lithuania, emigrated to Israel[2]
  • Uri Zvi Greenberg (Tur Malka)

H[]

  • Simon Halkin
  • Avigdor Hameiri (1886-1970), born in Carpato-Russ and emigrated to Israel in 1921; also a novelist[2]
  • Hedva Harekhavi
  • Shulamith Hareven
  • Paul Hartal
  • Galit Hasan-Rokem
  • Roy Hasan
  • Haim Hazaz
  • Haim Hefer
  • Dalia Hertz
  • Amira Hess
  • Ayin Hillel
  • Yair Hurvitz

I[]

  • Naphtali Herz Imber (1856-1909), the author of Hatikvah ("The Hope"), called "the Jewish national hymn"[1]

K[]

  • Yehudit Kafri
  • Ben Kalman, see Abraham Reisen
  • Itzhak Katzenelson (anglicized: Isaac Katzenelson; 1886-1944), perished in Auschwitz[2]
  • Admiel Kosman
  • Abba Kovner

L[]

  • Yitzhak Lamdan (1899-1954)[1]
  • Yitzhak Laor (born 1948) Israeli poet, author, and journalist
  • Haim Lensky, also known as "Hayyim Lensky" (1905–1942 or 1943), Russian poet who wrote in Hebrew; imprisoned in Soviet labor camps after 1934, where he wrote most of his verse
  • Giora Leshem
  • Hezi Leskali
  • Hanoch Levin
  • (1845-1925)[1]
  • (1885-1962)[1]

M[]

  • Meir Leibush Malbim (1809-1879), notable Russian Bible commentator who wrote some poetry in Hebrew[2]
  • Salomon Mandelkern (1846-1902), Ukrainian poet and scholar; author of the Hebrew concordance, Hekal Hakodesh[2]
  • (1859-1886)[1]
  • Reda Mansour
  • Salman Masalha
  • Margalit Matitiahu
  • Agi Mishol (born 1947), Hungarian-born Israeli poet

N[]

O[]

  • Amir Or

P[]

  • Dan Pagis
  • Alexander Penn
  • Isaac Loeb Peretz (1851-1915), wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish[1]
  • Israel Pinkas
  • Anda Pinkerfeld Amir
  • Elisha Porat
  • (1911- )[1]
  • Gabriel Preil

R[]

  • 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 (1890–1931), poet who immigrated to Palestine in 1909
  • Yonatan Ratosh
  • Dahlia Ravikovitch
  • Janice Rebibo
  • Abraham Regelson
  • Abraham Reisen (1870-1953), Russian native who emigrated to the United States; prolific poet and prose writer; pen name: Ben Kalman[2]
  • Tuvya Ruebner

S[]

  • Rami Saari
  • Yossi Sarid
  • Zalman Shneur (1887-1959), novelist and poet[1]
  • (1846-1931)[1]
  • Amir Segal
  • Aharon Shabtai
  • Yaakov Shabtai
  • Amnon Shamossh
  • Zalman Shazar
  • Naomi Shemer
  • David Shimonowitz, also known as "David Shimoni" (1886-1956)[1]
  • Abraham Shlonsky
  • Tal Slutzker
  • Ronny Someck
  • Jacob Steinberg (1887-1948)[1]

T[]

  • Shaul Tchernichovsky, also known as Saul Tchernihowsky* (1875-1943)[1]
  • Yoram Taharlev, (1938-present)

V[]

  • David Vogel

W[]

  • Yona Wallach
  • Meir Wieseltier

Y[]

  • Zvi Yair
  • Miriam Yalan-Shteklis
  • Avoth Yeshurun
  • Natan Yonatan

Z[]

  • Nathan Zach
  • Nurit Zarchi
  • Zelda
  • Eliezer Zvi Zweifel [he], also a Russian scholar, commentator and defender of Hassidism[2]
  • Stephan Zweig, (1836-1913), wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish[1]
  • Eliakum Zunser, (1881-1942), born in Vienna; also a biographer and dramatist[2]

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av Kravitz, Nathaniel (1972). 3,000 Years of Hebrew Literature. Chicago: Swallow Press Inc. ISBN 9780804005050.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Kravitz, Nathaniel, "3,000 Years of Hebrew Literature", Chicago: Swallow Press Inc., 1972, Appendix B ("Other Hebrew Writers and Scholars"), pp 555-559
  3. ^ Breger, Jennifer. "Rachel Morpurgo". Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jewish Women's Archive.
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