List of Hebrew-language poets

This is a list of Hebrew-language poets (year links are to corresponding "[year] in poetry" article):

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Biblical

• Moses
• King David
• King Solomon
• Jeremiah

Early Middle Ages

• Eleazar ha-Kalir
• Jose b. Jose
• Yannai

Golden Age in Spain

• Joseph ibn Abitur
• Abraham Abulafia
• Meir Halevi Abulafia
• Todros ben Judah Halevi Abulafia
• Samuel he-Hasid
• Todros Abulafia
• Yehuda Alharizi (1190-1240) ^[1]
• Judah Ben Samuel Halevi (born c. 1086) ^[1]
• Dunash ben Labrat (10th century) ^[1]
• Santob De Carrion (late 14th 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]
• Moses ibn Ezra (1070-1139) ^[1]
• Solomon Ibn Gabirol (1021-1058) ^[1]
• Isaac ibn Ghiyyat
• Solomon ibn Zakbel (fl. 12th century
• 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]
• Menahem ibn Saruq
• Joseph ben Jacob ibn Zaddik (died 1149)

Medieval Germany

• Baruch of Worms (early 13th 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 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), poet, philosopher and physician born in Béziers ^[1]
• Joseph ben Isaac Bekor Shor (12th century), Tosafist, exegete and poet from Orléans ^[1]

Safed Cabalists

• Solomon Alkabetz (16th century) ^[1]
• Israel ben Moses Najara ^[1] (c. 1555-c. 1625)

Italian Renaissance

• Deborah Ascarelli (17th century) ^[1]
• Immanuel 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 14th century), liturgical poet ^[2]
• Moses Judah Abbas (17th century)
• 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]
• Sara Copia Sullam (died 1641) ^[1]

North Africa and Yemen

• Shalom Shabazi
• David Buzaglo

Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah)

• Isaac Erter (1792-1851) satirist and poet ^[1]
• Judah Leib Gordon (1831-1892), ^[1] also known as "Judah Löb ben Asher Gordon" or "Leon Gordon"
• 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) ^[3]
• Süsskind Raschkow
• Constantin Shapiro (1841-1900) ^[1]
• Hermann Wassertrilling
• Naphtali Hirz Wessely (1725-1805) ^[1]

Modern Hebrew

A

• Shimon Adaf (born 1972), Israeli poet and author
• Shmuel Yosef Agnon
• Ada Aharoni
• Lea Aini
• Nathan Alterman, also known as Natan Alterman (1910-1970), Israeli journalist, translator and popular poet
• Ronen Altman Kaydar (born 1972)
• Yehudah Amichai (1924-2000), Israeli poet and one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew
• Aharon Amir
• Aharon Appelfeld
• Roy Arad
• Dan Armon
• David Avidan (1934 – 1995), Israeli poet, painter, filmmaker, publicist and playwright

B

• Simon Bacher
• Yocheved Bat-Miriam (1901 – 1979), German-born Israeli
• Menahem Ben (Braun)
• Itamar Ben Canaan
• Yakir Ben Moshe
• Avraham Ben-Yitzhak
• Reuven Ben-Yosef
• Fania Bergstein
• Haim Nachman Bialik (1873-1934) ^[1]
• Ya'qub Bilbul
• Erez Biton

C

• Ya'akov Cahan (1881-1960) ^[1]
• T. Carmi
• Miriam Chalfi (writing as Miriam Barukh)
• Rahel Chalfi
• Sami Shalom Chetrit
• Amichai Chasson

D

• Menahem Mendel Dolitzki (1858-1931) ^[1]

E

• Dror Elimelech
• Israel Eliraz

F

• Jacob Fichman (1881-1958) a critic, essayist and poet ^[1]
• Ezra Fleischer
• Simeon Samuel Frug (1860-1922), wrote in Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew ^[1]

G

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

H

• Simon Halkin
• Avigdor Hameiri (1886-1970), born in Carpato-Russ and immigrated to Israel in 1921; also a novelist ^[2]
• Hedva Harekhavi
• Shulamith Hareven
• Paul Hartal
• Galit Hasan-Rokem
• Roy Hasan
• Haim Hazaz
• Haim Hefer
• Dalia Hertz
• Amira Hess
• Ayin Hillel
• Yair Hurvitz

I

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

K

• Yehudit Kafri
• Ben Kalman, see Abraham Reisen
• Itzhak Katzenelson (anglicized: Isaac Katzenelson; 1886-1944), murdered in Auschwitz ^[2]
• Admiel Kosman
• Abba Kovner

L

• Yitzhak 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
• Giora Leshem
• Hezi Leskali
• Hanoch Levin
• 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]
• Salomon Mandelkern (1846-1902), Ukrainian poet and scholar; author of the Hebrew concordance, Hekal Hakodesh ^[2]
• Mordecai Zvi Mane (1859-1886) ^[1]
• Reda Mansour
• Salman Masalha
• Margalit Matitiahu
• Rivka Miriam
• Agi Mishol (born 1947), Hungarian-born Israeli poet

N

• Vaan Nguyen
• Tal Nitzán

O

• Amir Or
• Ofra Offer Oren

P

• Dan Pagis
• Alexander Penn
• Isaac Loeb Peretz (1851-1915), wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish ^[1]
• Israel Pinkas
• Anda Pinkerfeld Amir
• Elisha Porat
• Daniel Preil (1911- ) ^[1]
• Gabriel Preil

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 Ravikovitch
• Janice Rebibo
• Abraham Regelson
• Abraham Reisen (1870-1953), Russian native who immigrated to the United States; prolific poet and prose writer; pen name: Ben Kalman ^[2]
• Tuvya Ruebner

S

• Rami Saari
• Yossi Sarid
• Zalman Shneur (1887-1959), novelist and poet ^[1]
• A. A. Schwartz (1846-1931) ^[1]
• Amir Segal
• Aharon Shabtai
• Yaakov Shabtai
• Amnon Shamossh
• Zalman Shazar
• Naomi Shemer
• David Shimonowitz, also known as "David Shimoni" (1886-1956) ^[1]
• Abraham Shlonsky
• Simha Siani
• Tal Slutzker
• Ronny Someck
• Jacob Steinberg (1887-1948) ^[1]

T

• Shaul Tchernichovsky, also known as Saul Tchernihowsky* (1875-1943) ^[1]
• Yoram Taharlev, (1938-present)

V

• David Vogel

W

• Yona Wallach
• Meir Wieseltier

Y

• Zvi Yair
• Miriam Yalan-Shteklis
• Avoth Yeshurun
• Natan Yonatan

Z

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

See also

• The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself

Notes

1. Kravitz, Nathaniel (1972). 3,000 Years of Hebrew Literature . Chicago: Swallow Press Inc. ISBN   9780804005050.
2. Kravitz, Nathaniel, "3,000 Years of Hebrew Literature", Chicago: Swallow Press Inc., 1972, Appendix B ("Other Hebrew Writers and Scholars"), pp 555-559
3. Breger, Jennifer. "Rachel Morpurgo". Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jewish Women's Archive.