List of Yiddish language poets
Encyclopedia
Poets who wrote or write much of their poetry
in the Yiddish language
include:
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
in the Yiddish language
Yiddish language
Yiddish is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. It developed as a fusion of German dialects with Hebrew, Aramaic, Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages...
include:
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- Zelik Barditshever
- Rachel Baumvoll
- Elye Beyder
- Chaim Beyder
- Olexander BeydermanOlexander BeydermanOlexander Abramovytsch Beyderman is a Soviet-Ukrainian writer of Jewish descent...
- Alexander Belousov
- Lev Berinsky
- Israil BercoviciIsrail BercoviciIsrail Bercovici was a Jewish Romanian dramaturg, playwright, director, biographer, and memoirist, who served the State Jewish Theater of Romania between 1955 to 1982; he also wrote Yiddish-language poetry.-Biography:...
- Hayim Nahman Bialik
- Menachem Boreisho
- Itshe Borukhovitsh
- Joseph Bovshover
- Moishe BroderzonMoishe BroderzonMoishe Broderzon was a Yiddish poet, theatre director, and the founder of the Łódź literary group Yung-yidish....
- Srul BronshteinSrul Bronshtein-Biography:Srul Bronshtein was born into a Jewish baker's family in the village of Ştefăneşti, Bessarabia — at the time a southwestern province of Imperial Russia...
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- Itzik Fefer
- Mikhoel FelsenbaumMikhoel FelsenbaumMikhoel Felzenbaum ; is a postmodernist Yiddish novelist, poet and playwright....
- Ezra Fininberg
- Rokhel Fishman
- Shimen Frug
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- Mordechai GebirtigMordechai GebirtigMordechai Gebirtig, born Mordecai Bertig was an influential Yiddish poet and songwriter.- S'brent :One of Gebirtig's best-known songs is "S'brent" , written in 1938 in response to the 1936 pogrom of Jews in the shtetl of Przytyk. Gebirtig had hoped its message, “Don't stand there, brothers, douse...
- Aron Glantz-Leieles, alternative English spelling: Glanz-Leyeles (18991899 in poetry— Opening lines of Rudyard Kipling's White Man's Burden, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:...
-19681968 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Belfast Group, a grouping of poets in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which was started in 1963 in poetry, lapsed in 1966 when founder Philip Hobsbaum left for Glasgow, is reconstituted this year by...
), Polish native and Yiddish poet writing in the United States - Jacob GlatsteinJacob GlatsteinJacob Glatstein was a Polish-born American poet and literary critic who wrote in the Yiddish language. He was born 1896 August 20 in Lublin, Poland and died 1971 November 19 in New York City, New York, U.S.A. He is also known as Yankev Glatshteyn and as Jacob Glatshteyn...
(alternative English spelling: Yankev Glatshteyn) - Hirsh GlickHirsh GlickHirsch Glick was a Jewish poet and partisan.Glick was born in Vilna in 1922. He began to write Yiddish poetry in his teens and became co-founder of Yungvald , a group of young Jewish poets...
- Abraham GoldfadenAbraham GoldfadenAbraham Goldfaden ; was an Russian-born Jewish poet, playwright, stage director and actor in the languages Yiddish and Hebrew, author of some 40 plays.Goldfaden is considered the father of the Jewish modern theatre.In 1876 he founded in...
- Avrom Gontar
- Chaim GradeChaim GradeChaim Grade was one of the leading Yiddish writers of the twentieth century....
- Uri Zvi GreenbergUri Zvi GreenbergUri Zvi Grinberg was an acclaimed Israeli poet and journalist who wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew.-Biography:Uri Zvi Grinberg was born in Bialikamin, Galicia, then Austria-Hungary, into a prominent Hasidic family. He was raised in Lemberg . Some of his poems in Yiddish and Hebrew were published...
- Yankev Groper
- Motl Grubian
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- Shmuel Halkin
- Moyshe-Leyb HalpernMoyshe-Leyb HalpernMoyshe-Leyb Halpern 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 commercial art. He then began writing modernist poetry in German...
- Malka Heifetz-Tussman
- Binem HellerBinem HellerBinem Heller is a Polish poet and activist. He was born in 1908 in Warsaw, and became a glove worker at the age of fourteen.He emerged early as a leader of Poland's proletarian poets, equivalent to the Proletypen, with his first collection, "Through the Bars", published in Lodz in 1930. From 1937...
- David HofsteinDavid HofsteinDavid Hofstein was a Yiddish poet.He was born in Ukraine, Russian Empire and received a traditional Jewish education; his application to the Kiev University was declined. Hofstein began to write in Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, and Ukrainian....
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- Shmerke Kacherginsky
- Menke Katz
- Ariel Koprov
- Avrom Karpinovich (Karpinowicz)
- Itzhak Katzenelson
- Emmanuil KazakevichEmmanuil KazakevichEmmanuil Genrikhovich Kazakevich was a Soviet author, poet and playwright of Jewish extraction, writing in Russian and Yiddish.-Early life:...
- Dov-Ber Kerler (writing as Boris Karloff)
- Yosef Kerler
- Meyer Kharatz
- Rokhel Korn
- Yosef Kotliar
- Moyshe KulbakMoyshe KulbakMoyshe Kulbak was a Yiddish-language writer, born in Smarhon to a Jewish family. He studied at the Volozhin Yeshiva in Lithuania.-Overview:...
- Aron Kushnirov
- Leib KvitkoLeib KvitkoLeib Kvitko was a prominent Yiddish poet, an author of well-known children's poems and a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee . He was one of the editors of Eynikayt and of the Heymland, a literary magazine...
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- Malke Lee
- H. LeivickH. LeivickH. Leivick was a Yiddish language writer, known for his 1921 "dramatic poem in eight scenes" The Golem...
(18881888 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:*William Wilfred Campbell, Snowflakes and sunbeams. St. Stephen, NB: St. Croix Courier Press. Published at author's expense....
-1962 in poetry1962 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Writers in the Soviet Union this year were allowed to publish criticism of Joseph Stalin and were given more freedom generally, although many were severely criticized for doing so...
), born in Russia, emigrated to the United States; called "foremost" Yiddish poet and dramatist - Moyshe Lemster
- Mani LeibMani LeibMani Leib Yiddish poet, born in Nizhyn, . He was one of eight children; his father sold furs, hides, and animals at regional fairs. His mother supported the family selling hens, geese and eggs...
- Reuben Ludwig
- Abraham Lyessin (18721872 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Alfred Austin, Interludes* Robert Browning, Fifine at the Fair...
-19481948 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Sometime this year, Jack Kerouac introduced the phrase Beat Generation to describe his friends and as a general term describing the underground, anti-conformist youth gathering in New York at that...
), American
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- Itzik MangerItzik MangerItzik Manger was a prominent Yiddish poet and playwright, a self-proclaimed folk bard, visionary, and ‘master tailor’ of the written word...
- Anna MargolinAnna MargolinAnna Margolin is the pen name of Rosa Harning Lebensboym a twentieth century Jewish Russian-American, Yiddish language poet....
- Peretz MarkishPeretz MarkishPeretz Davidovich Markish was a Soviet/Russian Jewish poet and playwright who wrote in Yiddish.Peretz Markish was born in Polonnoye in 1895. His distant ancestors lived in Spain. As a child he attended a cheder and sang in the choir of the local synagogue. He served as a private in the Russian...
- Ida Maza
- Kadia Molodowsky
- N. B. Minkoff
- Peretz Miransky
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- Avrom ReyzenAvrom ReyzenAvrom Reyzen , Yiddish writer, poet, and editor. He was born in Koidanov . Supported by Yaknehoz , while in his early teens Reyzen sent articles to Dos Yudishes folks-blat in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He corresponded with Jacob Dinezon and Y. L...
(Abraham Reisen) - Abraham RegelsonAbraham RegelsonAbraham Regelson was a 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 his home in Neveh Monossohn, Israel in 1981...
- Max Riant
- Hertsl Rivkin
- Khava Rosenfarb
- Morris RosenfeldMorris RosenfeldMorris Rosenfeld was a Yiddish poet....
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- Motl Saktsier
- Beyle Schaechter-GottesmanBeyle Schaechter-GottesmanBeyle Schaechter-Gottesman is a Yiddish poet and songwriter.-Biography:She was born in Vienna into an Eastern-European, Yiddish-speaking family; her family left for Czernowitz, Ukraine and settled there when Schaechter-Gottesman was a young child...
- Gitl Schaechter-ViswanathGitl Schaechter-ViswanathGitl Schaechter-Viswanath is a Yiddish-language poet who was born in The Bronx, New York, USA. She grew up in a Yiddish-speaking home and attended Yiddish schools as a child. She began writing poetry, much of which was published in the journals Yugntruf and Afn Shvel, in 1980...
- Eliezer Shteinbarg
- Meyer Shtiker
- Moyshe Shimel(in Polish: Maurycy Szymel)
- Yisroel Shtern
- Esther Shumiatcher Hirschbein
- Simkhe Simkhovich
- Alexander Spiegelblat
- Abraham Nahum StenclAbraham Nahum Stencl-Life:Stencl was born in Czeladź in south-western Poland, and studied at the yeshiva in Sosnowice, where his brother was rabbi.He left home in 1917; he joined a Zionist community, the HeHalutz Group. His views were not in fact Zionist, but the agricultural work appealed...
- Jacob SternbergJacob SternbergYankev Shternberg was a Yiddish theater director, teacher of theater, playwright, avant-garde poet and short-story writer, best known for his theater work in Romania between the two world wars.Shternberg grew up in the northern Bessarabian shtetl of...
- Abraham SutzkeverAbraham SutzkeverAbraham Sutzkever was an acclaimed Yiddish poet. The New York Times wrote that Sutzkever was "the greatest poet of the Holocaust."-Biography:...