Tchernichovsky Prize is an Israeli prize awarded to individuals for exemplary works of translation into

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

History

The Tchernichovsky Prize is awarded by the municipality of

Tel Aviv-Yafo Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the ...

.Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality website (in Hebrew) - Tchernichovsky Prize
. Retrieved 7 February 2011 Although initially awarded annually, it is now awarded every two years. The prize was founded, in the name of the poet

Shaul Tchernichovsky Shaul Tchernichovsky ( he, שאול טשרניחובסקי) or Saul Gutmanovich Tchernichovsky (russian: link=no, Саул Гутманович Черниховский; 20 August 1875 – 14 October 1943) was a Russian-born Hebrew poet. He is c ...

, following a 1942 resolution of the municipality. Tchernichovsky himself participated in formulating the policies for the grant of the award and attended the first award ceremony for the prize in 1943.

Recipients

* Saul Adler *

Nathan Alterman Nathan Alterman ( he, נתן אלתרמן, August 14, 1910 – March 28, 1970) was an Israeli poet, playwright, journalist, and translator. Though never holding any elected office, Alterman was highly influential in Socialist Zionist politics, ...

* Aharon Amir, 1951 * Hugo Bergmann * Isaac Dov Berkowitz *

Ya'akov Cohen (writer) Ya'akov Cahan or Kahan ( he, יעקב כהן, born 26 June 1881; died 20 November 1960) was an Israeli poet, playwright, translator, writer and Hebrew linguist. Biography Ya'akov Cahan was born in Slutsk, in the Russian Empire, now Belarus. He ...

Shlomo Dykman Shlomo Dykman ( he, שלמה דיקמן; 10 February 1917 – 1965) was a Polish-Israeli translator and classical scholar. Biography Dykman was born in 1917 in Warsaw, Poland. He attended school at the "''Hinuch''" Hebrew Gymnasium, and then studi ...

Israel Eldad Israel Eldad () (11 November 1910 – 22 January 1996), was an Israeli Revisionist Zionist philosopher and member of the Jewish underground group Lehi in Mandatory Palestine. Biography Israel Scheib (later Eldad) was born in 1910 in Pidvoloch ...

* Ran HaCohen * Shlomo Herberg *

Ephraim Katzir Ephraim Katzir ( he, אפרים קציר, translit=Efrayim Katsir; – 30 May 2009) was an Israeli biophysicist and Labor Party politician. He was the fourth President of Israel from 1973 until 1978. Biography Efraim Katchalski (later Katzir ...

*, 1951 * Levana Moshon, 1995 * Tal Nitzán *, 1951 *

Rami Saari Rami Saari ( he, רמי סערי; b. 17 September 1963, Petah Tikva, Israel) is an Israeli poet, translator, linguist and literary critic. Biography Saari studied Semitic and Uralic languages at the Universities of Helsinki, Budapest and Jerusal ...

* Aharon Shabtai *

Abraham Schalit Abraham Haim Schalit ( he, אברהם שליט) (1898, 21 August 1979) was an Israeli historian and a scholar of the Second Temple period. Biography Schalit was born in 1898 in the Galician town of Zolochiv, then in Austria-Hungary (from 1918 ...

* David Shimoni *

Avraham Shlonsky Avraham Shlonsky (March 6, 1900 – May 18, 1973; he, אברהם שלונסקי; russian: Авраам Шлёнский) was a significant and dynamic Israeli poet and editor born in the Russian Empire. He was influential in the development of ...

Eisig Silberschlag Eisig Silberschlag (; January 8, 1903 – September 30, 1988) was a Galician-born American Hebrew poet, translator, and literary critic. He received the Tchernichovsky Prize in 1951 for his translations of Aristophanes and Menander into Hebrew. ...

, 1951 *

Leon Simon (Zionist) Sir Leon Simon (11 July 188127 April 1965) was a leading British Zionist intellectual and civil servant who took part in the drafting of the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and served on the Zionist Commission with Chaim Weizmann. An advocate of cu ...

Reuven Snir Reuven Snir ( he, ראובן שניר; born 1953) is an Israeli Jewish academic, Professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of Haifa, Dean of Humanities, and a translator of poetry between Arabic, Hebrew, and English. He is the ...

Joseph Gerhard Liebes Joseph Gerhard Liebes, born August 25, 1910 in San Salvador, El Salvador and died on August 3, 1988 in Jerusalem, was an Israeli translator and scholar of Ancient Greek classical literature and Latin literature into Hebrew. He translated Pla ...

References

Hebrew literary awards Israeli literary awards Jewish literary awards Israeli awards Awards by the municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo Awards established in 1942 Translation awards 1942 establishments in Mandatory Palestine {{TelAviv-stub