List of Hebrew-language poets
Appearance
List of Hebrew language poets (year links are to corresponding "[year] in poetry" article):
Biblical
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
- 1086)[1]
- Dunash ben Labrat (10th century)[1]
- Santob De Carrion (late 14th century), also a proverb writer[1]
- 1167), known mainly for Biblical commentaries and grammar works[1]
- 1139)[1]
- 1058)[1]
- Isaac ibn Ghiyyat
- Solomon ibn Zakbel (fl. 12th century
- Yehuda Halevi
- 1055)[1]
- Menahem ibn Saruq
- 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]
- 1086)
- Judah he-Hasid
Medieval France
- David Hakohen (late 13th century), composer of piyyutim from Avignon
- Isaac Gorni (late 13th century), troubadour from Aire-sur-l'Adour
Safed Cabalists
- Solomon Alkabetz (16th century)[1]
- Israel ben Moses Najara[1] (c. 1555-c. 1625)
Italian Renaissance
- Deborah Ascarelli (17th century)[1]
- Immanuel Frances
- 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
Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah)
- Isaac Erter (1792-1851) satirist and poet[1]
- Judah Leib Gordon (1831-1892),[1] also known as "Judah Löb ben Asher Gordon" or "Leon Gordon"
- Micah Joseph Lebensohn (1828-1852)[1]
- Isaac Baer Levinsohn (1788-1860)[1]
- Samuel David Luzzatto (1800-1865)[1]
- Süsskind Raschkow
- Constantin Shapiro (1841-1900)[1]
- Hermann Wassertrilling
- Naphtali Hirz Wessely (1725-1805)[1]
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)
- ), 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
- 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
- T. Carmi
- Miriam Chalfi(writing as Miriam Barukh)
- Rahel Chalfi
- Sami Shalom Chetrit
- Amichai Chasson
D
E
F
- Jacob Fichman (1881-1958) a critic, essayist and poet[1]
- Ezra Fleischer
G
- Yehonatan Geffen
- Mordechai Geldman
- Amir Gilboa
- Simon Ginzburg (1890-1944)[1]
- Haim Gouri
- Leah Goldberg (1911-1970), born in Lithuania, immigrated to Israel[2]
- Uri Zvi Greenberg (Tur Malka)
H
- Simon Halkin
- Avigdor Hameiri (1886-1970), born in Carpato-Russ and immigrated 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
K
- Yehudit Kafri
- Ben Kalman, see Abraham Reisen
- Auschwitz[2]
- Admiel Kosman
- Abba Kovner
L
- Yitzhak Lamdan (1899-1954)[1]
- Yitzhak Laor (born 1948) Israeli poet, author, and journalist
- Russianpoet who wrote in Hebrew; imprisoned in Soviet labor camps after 1934, where he wrote most of his verse
- Giora Leshem
- Hezi Leskali
- Hanoch Levin
- Judah Lob Levin (1845-1925)[1]
- Ephraim Lisitzky (1885-1962)[1]
M
- Salomon Mandelkern (1846-1902), Ukrainian poet and scholar; author of the Hebrew concordance, Hekal Hakodesh[2]
- Mordecai Zvi Mane (1859-1886)[1]
- Reda Mansour
- Salman Masalha
- Margalit Matitiahu
- Rivka Miriam
- Agi Mishol (born 1947), Hungarian-born Israeli poet
N
O
P
- Dan Pagis
- Alexander Penn
- Israel Pinkas
- Anda Pinkerfeld Amir
- Elisha Porat
- Daniel Preil (1911- )[1]
- Gabriel Preil
R
- ), poet who immigrated to Palestine in 1909
- Yonatan Ratosh
- Dahlia Ravikovitch
- Janice Rebibo
- Abraham Regelson
- Ben Kalman[2]
- Tuvya Ruebner
S
- Rami Saari
- Yossi Sarid
- A. A. Schwartz (1846-1931)[1]
- Amir Segal
- Aharon Shabtai
- Yaakov Shabtai
- Amnon Shamossh
- Zalman Shazar
- Naomi Shemer
- Abraham Shlonsky
- Simha Siani
- 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
Y
Z
- Nathan Zach
- Nurit Zarchi
- Zelda
- Eliezer Zvi Zweifel[2], also a Russian scholar, commentator and defender of Hassidism
- Eliakum Zunser, (1881-1942), born in Vienna; also a biographer and dramatist[2]
See also
Notes
- ^ ISBN 9780804005050.
- ^ 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
- ^ Breger, Jennifer. "Rachel Morpurgo". Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jewish Women's Archive.