List of Hebrew language poets

List of Hebrew language poets (year links are to corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

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Biblical

• King David
• King Solomon
• Jeremiah

Early Middle Ages

• Yose ben Yose
• Yannai
• Eleazar ha-Kalir

Golden Age in Spain

• Joseph ibn Abitur
• Abraham Abulafia
• Meir Halevi Abulafia
• Todros Abulafia
• Levi ibn Altaban
• Yehuda Alharizi (1190-1240)^[1]

• Judaben Samuel Halevi (born c. 1086^[1]
• Joseph ibn Hisdai
• Dunash ben Labrat (Tenth century)^[1]
• Santob De Carrion (late Fourteenth century), also a proverb writer^[1]
• Abraham ibn Ezra, also known as Abraham ben Meir ibn Ezra (1088-1167), known mainly for Biblical commentaries and grammar works^[1]
• Isaac ibn Ezra
• Moses ibn Ezra (1070-1139)^[1]
• Solomon Ibn Gabirol (1021-1058)^[1]
• Isaac ibn Ghiyyat
• Yehuda Halevi
• Joseph Kimhi (1105-1170), born in Spain, he fled to Narbonne, Provence, where he became known as a grammarian, exegete, poet, and translator.^[1]
• Shmuel haNagid, also known as Samuel ibn Naghrela or Samuel Ha-Naggid (992-1055)^[1]
• Isaac ibn Khalfun
• Isaac ibn Mar Shaul
• Joseph ibn Sahl
• Menahem ibn Saruq
• Joseph ibn Suli
• Joseph ben Jacob ibn Zaddik (died 1149)

Medieval Germany

• Baruch of Worms (early Thirteenth century), liturgical poet and commentator^[2]
• Meir ben Baruch, known as Ma'aram of Rothenburg (1215-1293), a Talmudist, Tosafist and liturgical poet^[1]
• Judah Halevi (born c. 1086)
• Judah he-Hasid
• Samuel he-Hasid
• Eleazer ben Judah ben Kalonymus of Worms (1176-1238), a Talmudist, Cabalist, moralist, scientist and poet^[1]

Medieval France

• David Hakohen (late 13th century), composer of piyyutim from Avignon
• Isaac Gorni (late 13th century), troubadour from Aire-sur-l'Adour
• Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi (1270–1340), a poet, philosopher and physician born in Béziers^[1]
• Joseph ben Isaac Bekor Shor (12th century), a Tosafist, exegete and poet from Orléans^[1]

Safed, Palestine Cabalists

• Solomon Alkabiz (Sixteenth century)^[1]
• Israel ben Moses Najara^[1] (c. 1555 - c. 1625)

Italian Renaissance

• Samuel Archevolti
• Deborah Ascarelli (Seventeenth century)^[1]
• Rafael da Faenza
• Immanuel Dei Rossi
• Immanuel Frances
• Jacob Frances
• Immanuel the Roman also known as Immanuel ben Solomon and Immanuel of Rome (1270-1330), a satirical poet and scholar^[1]
• Daniel ben Judah (late Fourteenth 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]
• Moses da Rieti
• Sarah Copia Sullam (d. 1641)^[1]
• Joseph Zarfati

North Africa and Yemen

• Saadiah ben Amram
• Shimon Labi
• Shalom Shabazi

Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah)

• Isaac Erter (1792-1851) satirist and poet^[1]
• Mordecai Aaron Ginzberg
• Judah Leib Gordon, also known as "Judah Löb ben Asher Gordon" or "Leon Gordon" (1831-1892)^[1]
• Abraham Baer Gottlober (1811-1899)^[1]
• Abraham Dob Bär Lebensohn (1789-1878)^[1]
• Micah Joseph Lebensohn (1828-1852)^[1]
• Meir Halevi Letteris (1800-1871)^[1]
• Isaac Baer Levinsohn (1788-1860)^[1]
• Samuel David Luzzatto (1800-1865)^[1]
• Rahel Luzzatto Morpurgo (1790-1871)^[1]
• Süsskind Raschkow
• Constantin Shapiro (1841-1900)^[1]
• Hermann Wassertrilling
• Naphtali Hirz Wessely (1725-1805)^[1]

Modern Hebrew

A

• Shimon Adaf (b. 1972), Israeli poet and author
• Nathan Alterman, also known as Natan Alterman (1910-1970), Israeli journalist, translator and popular poet
• Yehudah Amichai (1924-2000) Israeli poet and one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew
• Vered Ariel
• Tirtza Atar
• David Avidan (1934–1995), Israeli poet, painter, filmmaker, publicist and playwright
• Reuben Avinoam (born 1905)
• Ronen Altman Kaydar (b. 1972)

B

• Yocheved Bat-Miriam (1901–1979), German-born Israeli
• Maya Bejerano
• Menahem Ben (Braun)
• Yakir Ben Moshe
• Haim Nachman Bialik (1873-1934)^[1]
• Erez Biton
• Miri Ben Simhon

C

• Yaacov Cahan (1881-1960)^[1]
• T. Carmi
• Abraham Chalfi
• Rahel Chalfi
• Sami Shalom Chetrit
• Shlomit Cohen-Assif
• Leora Conway

D

• M. M. Dolitzki (1858-1931)^[1]

E

• David Edelstadt (1866–1892), workers poet and one of the first Jewish poets in the United States^[2]
• Israel Efrat
• Shelley Elkayam

F

• Jacob Fichman (1881-1958) a critic, essayist and poet^[1]

• Larry Friefeld (Elazar)
• Lois Friefeld
• Simeon Samuel Frug (1860-1922), wrote in Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew^[1]

G

• Mordechai Geldman
• Orit Gidali
• Amir Gilboa
• Simon Ginzburg (1890-1944)^[1]
• Haim Gouri
• Leah Goldberg (1911-1970), born in Lithuania, emigrated to Israel^[2]
• Uri Zvi Greenberg (Tur Malka)

H

• Simon Halkin
• Avigdor Hameyeri (1886-1970), born in Carpato-Russ and emigrated to Israel in 1921; also a novelist^[2]
• Haim Hazaz
• Judah he-Hasid
• Samuel he-Hasid
• Ayin Hillel
• Yair Hurvitz

I

• Naphtali Herz Imber (1856-1909), the author of Hatikvah ("The Hope"), called "the Jewish national hymn"^[1]

K

• Ben Kalman, see Abraham Reisen
• Yitzhak Katzenelson, alternate English spelling, "Isaac Katzenelson" (1886-1944), perished in Auschwitz, where he wrote a famous poem about the extermination of the Jews^[2]
• Admiel Kosman
• Abba Kovner

L

• Isaac Lamdan (1899-1954)^[1]
• Yitzhak Laor (born 1948) Israeli poet, author, and journalist
• Haim Lensky also known as "Hayyim Lensky" (1905–1942 or 1943), Russian poet who wrote in Hebrew; imprisoned in Soviet labor camps after 1934, where he wrote most of his verse
• Hezy Leskly
• Judah Lob Levin (1845-1925)^[1]
• Ephraim Lisitzky (1885-1962)^[1]

M

• Meir Leibush Malbim (1809-1879), notable Russian Bible commentator who wrote some poetry in Hebrew^[2]
• Solomon Mandelkern (1846-1902), Ukrainian poet and scholar; author of the Hebrew concordance, Hekal Hakodesh^[2]
• Mordecai Zevi Manne (1859-1886)^[1]
• Sabina Messeg
• Agi Mishol (b. 1947) Hungarian-born Israeli poet

O

• Jacob Orland
• Amir Or

P

• Dan Pagis
• Alexander Penn
• Isaac Loeb Peretz (1851-1915) wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish^[1]
• Elisha Porat
• Daniel Preil (1911- )^[1]

R

• Rachel (Hebrew: רחל‎) in English, sometimes transcribed as "Ra'hel" or "Rahel", also known as "Rachel the poetess" (Hebrew: רחל המשוררת‎), pen name of Rachel Bluwstein Sela (1890–1931), poet who immigrated to Palestine in 1909
• Yonatan Ratosh
• Dahlia Rabikovitch
• Janice Rebibo
• Abraham Regelson
• Asher Reich
• Abraham Reisen (1870-1953) Russian native who emigrated to the United States; prolific poet and prose writer; pen name: Ben Kalman^[2]
• Aharon Reuveni
• Tuvya Rubner

S

• Yossi Sarid
• Zalman Schnaiur (1887-1959), novelist and poet^[1]
• A. A. Schwartz (1846-1931)^[1]
• Aharon Shabtai
• Yaakov Shabtai
• Amnon Shamossh
• Rina Shani
• Zalman Shazar
• Naomi Shemer
• David Shimonowitz, also known as "David Shimoni" (1886-1956)^[1]
• Abraham Shlonsky
• Roni Someck
• Jacob Steinberg (1887-1948)^[1]

T

• Shaul Tchernichovsky, also known as Saul Tchernihowsky* (1875-1943)^[1]
• Ben-Zion Tomer

V

• David Vogel

W

• Yona Wallach
• Rafi Weichert
• Meir Wieseltier

Y

• Miriam Yalan-Shteklis
• Avoth Yeshurun
• Natan Yonatan

Z

• Nathan Zach
• Nurit Zarchi
• Zelda
• Eliezer Zebi Zweifel (1815-1888), also a Russian scholar, comentator and defender of Hassidism^[2]
• Eliakum Zunser (1836-1913) wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish^[1]
• Stephan Zweig (1881-1942), born in Vienna; also a biographer and dramatist^[2]
• Zvi Yair

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw} Kravitz, Nathaniel, "3,000 Years of Hebrew Literature", Chicago: Swallow Press Inc., 1972,
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Kravitz, Nathaniel, "3,000 Years of Hebrew Literature", Chicago: Swallow Press Inc., 1972, Appendix B ("Other Hebrew Writers and Scholars"), pp 555-559

See also

• The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself