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This is a list of notable Jewish American poets. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans . Persons listed with a double asterisks (**) are winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry .
Gary Gach. Serge Gainsbourg. Alexander Galich (writer) Moshe David Gaon. Art Garfunkel. Raymond Garlick. Joseph Gart. Mordechai Gebirtig. František Gellner.
Liturgical Jewish poetry (Piyyut) flourished in the Byzantine Palestine in the seventh and eighth centuries with the writings of Yose ben Yose, Yanai, and Eleazar Kalir. [ 1 ] Later Spanish, Provençal, and Italian poets wrote both religious and secular poems. Particularly prominent poets were Solomon ibn Gabirol and Yehuda Halevi.
Joshua Braff, novelist [17] Abraham Cahan, journalist, author and editor of Yiddish newspaper Jewish Daily Forward[18][19] Hortense Calisher, novelist and president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters [20] Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal, colonial era rabbi who published the first Jewish sermons in America [21] Melvin Jules Bukiet ...
Marcia Falk. Kenneth Fearing. Leon Feinberg. Edward Field (poet) Michael John Fles. Shalom Freedman. David D. Friedman. Robert Friend (poet) Kenny Fries.
(5 May 1915 – 24 September 2011) [282] was a British writer and well-known figure in Anglo-Jewish literature, known for novels, short stories, poetry, plays and human rights campaigning. Litvinoff became aware of plight of persecuted Soviet Jews, and started worldwide campaign against this persecution. [ 283 ]
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.
Judah ben Shmuel Halevi was born either in Toledo or Tudela, Spain in 1075. The confusion surrounding his place of birth arises from unclear text in a manuscript. [2] Both cities were under Muslim control when he grew up but were conquered by Christian rulers during his lifetime; Toledo by Alfonso VI in 1086, and Tudela by Alfonso the Battler in 1118.