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 meani ...

in the

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 ve ...

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* Moyshe Altman

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* Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim *

Rachel Boymvol Rachel Boymvol, sometimes spelled Baumwoll (russian: Рахиль Львовна Баумволь, yi, רחל בױמװאָל, he, רחל בוימוול, March 4, 1914, Odessa - June 16, 2000, Jerusalem) was a Soviet Union, Soviet poet, children' ...

Olexander Beyderman Olexander Abramovytsch Beyderman (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian , Scientific transliteration '; also: Bejderman ; * 1949 in Odessa) is a USSR, Soviet-Ukraine, Ukrainian writer of Jewish descent. He is a lecturer of Hebrew, Russian language, Russian ...

Israil Bercovici Israil Bercovici (, yi, ישראל בערקאָװיטש; 1921–1988) was a Jewish Romanian dramaturg, playwright, director, biographer, and memoirist, who served the State Jewish Theater of Romania between 1955 and 1982; he also wrote Yiddi ...

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 Bi ...

Hayim Nahman Bialik Hayim Nahman Bialik ( he, חיים נחמן ביאַליק; January 9, 1873 – July 4, 1934), was a Jewish poet who wrote primarily in Hebrew but also in Yiddish. Bialik was one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poetry. He was part of the vangu ...

* Benjamin J. Bialostotzky * Moishe Broderzon * Srul Bronshtein

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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 ...

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David Edelstadt David Edelstadt (Yiddish: דוד עדעלשטאַט; May 9, 1866, Kaluga, Russia – 17 October 1892, Denver, Colorado) was a Jewish, Russian-American anarchist poet in the Yiddish language. Edelstadt immigrated to Cincinnati and worked as a bu ...

* Mendel Elefant * Israel Emiot''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 April ...

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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 Poet ...

Leon Feinberg Leon Feinberg (February 6, 1897 – January 22, 1969) was a Ukrainian-born Jewish-American Yiddish poet, writer, and journalist. Life Feinberg was born on February 6, 1897, in Kodyma, Russia. Feinberg attended religious primary school until h ...

* Mikhoel Felsenbaum *

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, contrib ...

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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 ...

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, 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. * J ...

), 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 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 bor ...

(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 bor ...

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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 Abraham Goldfaden (Yiddish: אַבֿרהם גאָלדפֿאַדען; born Avrum Goldnfoden; 24 July 1840 – 9 January 1908), also known as Avram Goldfaden, was a Russian-born Jewish poet, playwright, stage director and actor in the languages Yid ...

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 H ...

Chaim Grade Chaim Grade ( yi, חיים גראַדע) (April 4, 1910 – June 26, 1982) was one of the leading Yiddish writers of the twentieth century. Grade was born in Vilnius, Russian Empire and died in The Bronx, New York. He is buried in Riverside Cemet ...

* Uri Zvi Greenberg

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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 commer ...

* Binem Heller * David Hofstein

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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 * Moyshe Kulbak *

Leib Kvitko Leyb Moiseyevich Kvitko (russian: Лев Моисе́евич Кви́тко, yi, לייב קוויטקאָ) (October 15, 1890 – August 12, 1952) was a prominent Yiddish poet, an author of well-known children's poems and a member of the Je ...

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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, ...

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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 wor ...

), born in Russia, emigrated to the United States; called "foremost" Yiddish poet and dramatist *

Mani Leib Mani Leib (Mani Leyb, yi, מאַני לייב; born Mani Leib Brahinsky, russian: Мани Лейб Брагинский; 20 December 1883, Nezhin, Russian Empire – 4 October 1953, New York) was a Yiddish-language poet. He was one of eight chil ...

* 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 * Januar ...

)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, Russi ...

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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 poet and playwright, a self-proclaimed folk bard, visionary, and 'master tailor ...

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, ...

Peretz Markish Peretz Davidovich Markish ( yi, פּרץ מאַרקיש ) (russian: Перец Давидович Маркиш) (7 December 1895 (25 November OS) – 12 August 1952) was a Russian Jewish poet and playwright who wrote predominantly in Yiddish. ...

* N. B. Minkoff * Kadia Molodowsky

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* Rikuda Potash * Gabriel Preil (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 ...

(Abraham Reisen) *

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 * Morris Rosenfeld

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* Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman * Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath * Meyer Shtiker * Fradl Shtok * Joel Slonim *

Abraham Nahum Stencl Abraham Nahum Stencl (Polish: Avrom Nokhem Sztencl, he, אברהם נחום שטנצל) (1897-1983) was a Polish-born Yiddish poet. Life Stencl was born in Czeladź in south-western Poland, and studied at the yeshiva in Sosnowiec, where his broth ...

* Jacob Sternberg *

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

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* Miryem Ulinover

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* Leyb Vaserman

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Morris Winchevsky Morris Winchevsky (Yiddish: מאָריס װינטשעװסקי; born as Leopold Benzion Novokhovitch; August 9 1856–March 18 1932), also known as Ben Netz, was a prominent Jewish socialist leader in London and the United States in the late 19th ...

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* Yehoash (Blumgarten)

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Aaron Zeitlin Aaron Zeitlin (3 June 1898 – 28 September 1973) was a Jewish American educator and writer. He authored several books on Yiddish literature, poetry and parapsychology. Biography Zeitlin was born in Uvarovichi, Russia (now Belarus) to Hillel Z ...

* 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 ve ...

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 ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writt ...