Poets who wrote, or write, much or all of their

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

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Yiddish language Yiddish (, or , ''yidish'' or ''idish'', , ; , ''Yidish-Taytsh'', ) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a ver ...

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Moyshe Altman Moyshe Altman ( yi, משה אַלטמאַן; russian: Моисей Элевич Альтман; ro, Moisei Altman) (May 7, 1890, Lipcani, Bessarabia - October 21, 1981, Chernivtsi, USSR) was a Yiddish writer A writer is a person who uses wr ...

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Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim ( yi, רבקה באסמאן; 20 February 1925 – 22 March 2023) was a Lithuanian-born Israeli Yiddish poet and educator. She was the recipient of the Itzik Manger Prize in 1984. Basman was also awarded the Chaim Zhitlowsk ...

* Rachel Boymvol * Olexander Beyderman * Israil Bercovici *

Źmitrok Biadula Samuil Jafimavič Płaŭnik ( be, Самуіл Яфімавіч Плаўнік, translit=Samuil Jafimavič Płaŭnik; yi, שמואל בן חיים פּלאַווניק; 23 April 1886 – 3 November 1941), better known by the pen name Źmitrok B ...

* Hayim Nahman Bialik *

Benjamin J. Bialostotzky Benjamin Jacob Bialostotzky (June 15, 1893 - September 22, 1962) Is a Lithuanian-born Jewish-American Yiddish poet. Life Bialostotzky was born on June 15, 1893, in Pumpėnai, Russia, the son of the Grodner ''Maggid''. Bialostozky attended reli ...

Moishe Broderzon Moishe Broderzon ( yi, משה בראדערזאן, November 23, 1890 — August 17, 1956) was a Yiddish poet, theatre director, and the founder of the Łódź literary society, literary group ''Yung-yidish''. He was born 1890 in Moscow, but his f ...

Srul Bronshtein Srul Bronshtein ( yi, סראָל בראָנשטײן; –1943) was a Romanian and Soviet Union, Soviet Yiddish-language poet. Biography Srul Bronshtein was born into a Bessarabian Jews, Jewish baker's family in the village of Ștefănești, Floreș ...

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Celia Dropkin Celia Dropkin ( yi, ציליע דראַפּקין, – August 18, 1956) was a Russian-born American Yiddish poet, writer, and artist. Biography Dropkin was born in Bobruysk, Russian Empire to an assimilated Russian-Jewish family. In Yiddish h ...

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* David Edelstadt * Mendel Elefant *

Israel Emiot Israel Emiot (1909 – March 7, 1978) was the pen name of Israel Goldwasser or Israel Yanofsky, a Yiddish poet and writer who was born in what is now Poland, later lived in the Soviet Union, and spent his last two decades in Rochester, New York. ...

''Britannica Book of the Year 1967'', 1967 (for events of 1966), "Literature" section, "Jewish" subsection, "Yiddish" sub-subsection, page 493 *

Alter Esselin Alter Esselin ( yi, אלטער עסעלין, born Orkeh Serebrenik) was a Jewish-American poet who wrote in the Yiddish language. He was born in Chernihiv, in the Chernigov Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) on Apri ...

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Itzik Fefer Itzik Feffer (10 September 1900 – 12 August 1952), also Fefer (Yiddish איציק פֿעפֿער, Russian Ицик Фефер, Исаàк Соломòнович Фèфер) was a Soviet Yiddish poet executed on the Night of the Murdered Po ...

* Leon Feinberg *

Mikhoel Felsenbaum Mikhoel Felzenbaum ( yi, מיכאל פֿעלזענבאַום, russian: Михо́эл Фельзенба́ум; born 1951 in Vasylkiv, Ukraine, USSR) is a postmodernist Yiddish novelist, poet and playwright. He grew up in the Bessarabian city of Fl ...

Chaim Leib Fox Chaim Leib Fox (born Chaim Leib Fuchs/Fuks, 1894 – 1984), was a Yiddish poet, writer and a journalist associated with literary life of Łódź after World War I. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1953, Fox worked on encyclopaedic projects, contribut ...

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Mordechai Gebirtig Mordechai Gebirtig ( yi, מרדכי געבירטיג), born Mordecai Bertig (4 May 1877 – 4 June 1942), was an influential Polish poet and songwriter of the interwar period. He was shot by Germans in the Kraków Ghetto, occupied Poland, during t ...

Aron Glantz-Leieles Aron may refer to: Characters * Aron (comics), from the Marvel Universe comic ''Aron! HyperSpace Boy!'' * Aron (Pokémon), in the ''Pokémon'' franchise * Aron Trask, from John Steinbeck's novel ''East of Eden'' * Áron or Aaron, the brother of ...

, alternative English spelling: Glanz-Leyeles (

1899 Events January 1899 * January 1 ** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. ** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City. * January 2 – **Bolivia sets up a c ...

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1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Januar ...

), Polish native and Yiddish poet writing in the United StatesKravitz, Nathaniel, "3,000 Years of Hebrew Literature", Chicago: Swallow Press Inc., 1972, Appendix B ("Other Hebrew Writers and Scholars"), pp 555-559 *

Jacob Glatstein Jacob Glatstein (1896–1971) yiddish יעקב גלאטשטיין was a Poland, Polish-born United States, American poet and literary critic who wrote in the Yiddish language. His name is also spelled Yankev Glatshteyn or Jacob Glatshteyn. Early ...

(alternative English spelling:

Yankev Glatshteyn Jacob Glatstein (1896–1971) yiddish יעקב גלאטשטיין was a Polish-born American poet and literary critic who wrote in the Yiddish language. His name is also spelled Yankev Glatshteyn or Jacob Glatshteyn. Early life Glatstein was born ...

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Hirsh Glick Hirsch Glick (1922 in Wilno, Poland – 1944 in Estonia) was a Jewish poet and partisan. Glick was born in Wilno in 1922 (at the time a part of inter-war Poland). He began to write Yiddish poetry in his teens and became co-founder of '' Yungvald ...

* Abraham Goldfaden *

Pincus Goodman Pincus Goodman ( yi, פינחס גודמאן, 1881–1947), who published as P. Goodman (), was an American Yiddish-language poet active from the 1920s to the 1940s. Because he worked as a silk weaver his whole life, he was known as the "weaver ...

Eliezer Greenberg Eliezer Greenberg (December 13, 1896 – June 2, 1977) was a Bessarabian-born Jewish-American Yiddish poet and literary critic. Life Greenberg was born on December 13, 1896 in Lipcani, Russian Empire, the son of Ezekiel Greenberg and Ethel Has ...

* Chaim Grade *

Uri Zvi Greenberg Uri Zvi Greenberg ( he, אוּרִי צְבִי גְּרִינְבֵּרְג; September 22, 1896 – May 8, 1981; also spelled Uri Zvi Grinberg) was an acclaimed Modern Hebrew poetry, Israeli poet, journalist and politician who wrote in Yiddish ...

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Moyshe-Leyb Halpern Moyshe-Leyb Halpern (January 2, 1886 – August 31, 1932) was a Yiddish-language modernist poet. He was born and raised in a traditional Jewish household in Zlotshev, Galicia and brought to Vienna at the age of 12 in 1898 to study commerc ...

* Binem Heller *

David Hofstein Dovid Hofshteyn ( yi, דוד האָפשטיין ''Dovid Hofshteyn'', russian: Давид Гофштейн; June 12, 1889 in Korostyshiv – August 12, 1952), also known as David Hofstein, was a Yiddish poet. He was one of the 13 Jewish intellectua ...

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Reuben Iceland Reuben Iceland (April 29, 1884 – June 18, 1955) was a Galician-born Jewish-American Yiddish poet, translator, and journalist Life Iceland was born on April 29, 1884 in Radomyśl Wielki, Galicia. He began writing Hebrew poems in 1900 and Yid ...

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* Pinchus Kahanovich (

Der Nister Der Nister ( yi, דער נסתּר ֹor דער ניסטער, "the Hidden One"; 1 November 1884 – 4 June 1950 in a Soviet Gulag) was the pseudonym of Pinchus Kahanovich ( yi, פּנחס קאַהאַנאָוויטש), a Yiddish author, philoso ...

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Itzhak Katzenelson Itzhak Katzenelson ( he, יצחק קצנלסון, yi, (יצחק קאַצ(ע)נעלסאָן(זון; also transcribed as ''Icchak-Lejb Kacenelson'', ''Jizchak Katzenelson''; ''Yitzhok Katznelson'') (1 July 1886 – 1 May 1944) was a Polish Jewis ...

Emmanuil Kazakevich Emmanuil Genrikhovich Kazakevich (russian: Эммануи́л Ге́нрихович Казаке́вич, yi, עמנואל קאַזאַקעװיטש; February 24, 1913 – September 22, 1962) was a Soviet author, poet and playwright of Jewish ext ...

Rokhl Korn Rachel (Rokhl) Häring Korn ( yi, רחל קאָרן, 15 January 1898 – 9 September 1982) was a Poland, Polish-born Canadians, Canadian Yiddish language poet and author. In total, she published eight collections of poetry and two of prose. Seymou ...

Moyshe Kulbak Moyshe Kulbak ( yi, משה קולבאַק; be, Майсей (Мойша) Кульбак; 1896 1937) was a Belarusian Jewish writer who wrote in Yiddish. Biography Born in Smarhon (present-day Belarus, then in the Russian Empire) to a Jewish fa ...

* Leib Kvitko

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H. Leivick H. Leivick (Yiddish: ה. לײװיק; pen name of Leivick Halpern, December 25, 1888 – December 23, 1962) was a Yiddish language writer, known for his 1921 "dramatic poem in eight scenes" '' The Golem''. He also wrote many highly political, r ...

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1888 In Germany, 1888 is known as the Year of the Three Emperors. Currently, it is the year that, when written in Roman numerals, has the most digits (13). The next year that also has 13 digits is the year 2388. The record will be surpassed as late ...

1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wors ...

), born in Russia, emigrated to the United States; called "foremost" Yiddish poet and dramatist * Mani Leib * Moshe Lifshits (

1894 Events January–March * January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire. * January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United S ...

1940 A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January *January ...

)Reyzen, Zalman 1927: ''Leksikon fun der yidisher literatur'' : ''Prese un filologye''. Vol. II, Vilnius. Zalmen Zilbertsvayg, Jacob Mestel: ''Leksikon fun yidishen teater''. Vol. II, 1934, Column 1130 ff. The Hebrew Actors Union of America. Warsaw; Samuel Niger, Jacob Shatzky: ''Leksikon fun der nayer yidisher literatur''. Vol. V, 1963, Col. 220 ff. New York. * Malka Locker *

Abraham Liessin Abraham Walt (May 19, 1872 – November 5, 1938), better known by his pen name Abraham Liessin, was a Belarusian-born Jewish-American socialist activist, Yiddish poet, and newspaper editor. Life Liessin was born on May 19, 1872, in Minsk, Russ ...

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1872 Events January–March * January 12 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years. * February 2 – The government of the United Kingdom buys a number of forts on ...

1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...

), American * A. Lutzky

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Itzik Manger Itzik Manger (30 May 1901, Czernowitz, then Austrian-Hungarian Empire – 21 February 1969, Gedera, Israel; yi, איציק מאַנגער) was a prominent Yiddish language, Yiddish poet and playwright, a self-proclaimed folk bard, visionary, a ...

Anna Margolin Anna Margolin ( yi, אַננאַ מאַרגאָלין) is the pen name of Rosa Harning Lebensboym (1887–1952) a twentieth century Jewish Russian-American, Yiddish language poet. Biography Born in Brest, then part of the Russian Empire, she wa ...

* Peretz Markish *

N. B. Minkoff Nahum Baruch Minkoff (November 18, 1893 – March 14, 1958) was a Polish-born Jewish American Yiddish poet, newspaper editor, and educator. Life Minkoff was born on November 18, 1893, in Warsaw, Congress Poland, Poland. His father Moyshe was a ...

Kadia Molodowsky Kadia Molodowsky ( yi, קאַדיע מאָלאָדאָװסקי; also: Kadya Molodowsky; May 10, 1894, in Bereza Kartuska, now Byaroza, Belarus – March 23, 1975, in Philadelphia) was an American poet and writer in the Yiddish language, and a t ...

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* Rikuda Potash *

Gabriel Preil Gabriel Preil (Hebrew: גבריאל פרייל; August 21, 1911 – June 5, 1993) was a modern Hebrew poet active in the United States, who wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish. Preil translated Robert Frost and Walt Whitman into Hebrew. Biography Gabrie ...

(alternative English spelling: "Gabriel Preyl")

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Avrom Reyzen Avrom Reyzen (Yiddish: אַבֿרהם רייזען; April 8, 1876 – April 2, 1953), known as Abraham Reisen, was a Yiddish writer, poet and editor, and the elder brother of the Yiddishist Zalman Reisen. Reyzen was born in Koidanov (Minsk, ea ...

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Abraham Regelson Abraham Regelson (1896–1981; Hebrew: אברהם רגלסון) was an Israeli 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 ...

Chava Rosenfarb Chava Rosenfarb (9 February 1923 – 30 January 2011) ( yi, חוה ראָזענפֿאַרב) was a Holocaust survivor and Jewish-Canadian author of Yiddish poetry and novels, a major contributor to post-World War II Yiddish Literature. Early li ...

Morris Rosenfeld Morris Rosenfeld (Yiddish: מאָריס ראָסענפֿעלד; born as Moshe Jacob Alter; December 28, 1862 in Stare Boksze in Russian Poland, government of Suwałki – June 22, 1923 in New York City) was a Yiddish poet. His work sheds light ...

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Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman Beyle (or Bella) "Beyltse" Schaechter-Gottesman (August 7, 1920 – November 28, 2013) was a Yiddish poet and songwriter. Biography She was born in Vienna into an Eastern-European, Yiddish-speaking family; her family left for Czernowitz, Ukrai ...

Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath (born 1958) is a Yiddish-language poet and author. Early childhood and education Gitl Schaechter was born in The Bronx New York. She grew up in a Yiddish-speaking home and attended Yiddish schools as a child. She att ...

Meyer Shtiker Meyer may refer to: People *Meyer (surname), listing people so named *Meyer (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the name Companies * Meyer Burger, a Swiss mechanical engineering company * Meyer Corporation * Meyer Sound Labor ...

Fradl Shtok Fradl Shtok ( yi, פֿראַדעל שטאָק) (also Fradel Stock, 1888 – 1952?)Kenvin, Helene." ''JewishGen KehilaLinks''. Last updated 13 September 2015. Retrieved 2016-05-13. was a Jewish-American Yiddish-language poet and writer, who immigr ...

* Joel Slonim * Abraham Nahum Stencl *

Jacob Sternberg Yankev Shternberg (in English language texts occasionally referred to as Jacob Sternberg; yi, יעקבֿ שטערנבערג; russian: link=no, Яков Моисеевич Штернберг; 1890, Lipcani, Bessarabia, Russian Empire – 1973, Mos ...

Abraham Sutzkever Abraham Sutzkever ( yi, אַבֿרהם סוצקעווער, Avrom Sutskever; he, אברהם סוצקבר; July 15, 1913 – January 20, 2010) was an acclaimed Yiddish poet. ''The New York Times'' wrote that Sutzkever was "the greatest poet o ...

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* Dora Teitelboim *

Malka Heifetz Tussman Malka Heifetz Tussman (1893–1987) was a Ukrainian-American Yiddish poet and teacher. Life Tussman was born in Volhynia in 1893, the second of eight children. As a young child, she was educated in Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, and English. She imm ...

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* Miryem Ulinover

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* Leyb Vaserman

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* Morris Winchevsky

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Yehoash (Blumgarten) Solomon Blumgarten () (16 September 1872 – 10 January 1927), known by his pen name Yehoash (), was a Yiddish poet, scholar, and translator. Yehoash was "generally recognized by those familiar with iddishliterature, as its greatest living poet an ...

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* Aaron Zeitlin * Rajzel ŻychlińskyZychlinsky, R. (1997). God Hid His Face: Selected Poems (B. Zumoff, A. Kramer, M. Kanter, et al., Trans.). Santa Rosa, C.A.: Word & Quill Press.

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Yiddish Yiddish (, or , ''yidish'' or ''idish'', , ; , ''Yidish-Taytsh'', ) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a ver ...

Poets A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...