Shimon Adaf
(Israel, 1972)
Shimon Adaf was born in 1972 in Sderot, a small town in Southern Israel. Adaf’s parents …
Ayman Agbaria
(Israel, 1968)
Palestinian-Israeli poet and playwriter Ayman Agbaria was born in Umm Al-Fahm (Israel) …
Taha Muhammad Ali
(Mandatory Palestine, 1931–2011)
Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in a village in Galilee [then Saffuriya in Mandatory …
Aharon Almog
(Mandate Palestine, 1931)
It is certainly time to honor Aharon Almog, as his daughter Eliana suggests in her …
Nathan Alterman
(Poland, 1910)
Nathan Alterman was born in 1910 in Warsaw, Poland, settled in Tel Aviv in 1925 and …
Dvora Amir
(Israel, 1948)
Dvora Amir was born in Jerusalem during the 1948 War of Independence. Her parents came …
Dana Amir
(Israel, 1966)
Dana Amir was born in Haifa in 1966 to a Polish mother and a Bulgarian father, both …
David Avidan
(Mandatory Palestine, 1934–1995)
The concise epithet ‘wordman’ – an invented compound word, in Hebrew, adamila – is …
Navit Barel
(Israel, 1977)
Israeli poet Navit Barel, 36, was born in Ashkelon on Israel’s southern coast to …
Ella Bat-Tsion
(Israel, 1954)
Ella Bat-Tsion began to publish her poetry, under the name Gabriella Elisha, at the …
Avraham Ben Yitzhak
(Poland, 1883)
Avraham Ben Yitzhak was born in Przemysl in Galicia, Poland, and died in Israel.
Mois Benarroch
(Morocco, 1959)
Mois Benarroch was born in Tetuan, (formerly Spanish) Morocco, in 1959 and came to …
Lev Berinski
(Israel, 2003)
Lev Berinski was born in Romania. His family fled east during the war and in 1945 …
Chaim Nachman Bialik
(Ukraine, 1873)
Israel’s national poet, Chaim Nachman Bialik, combined in a unique way his own wish for …
T. Carmi
(USA, 1925–1994)
Carmi’s background was international; he absorbed French and English, as well as Hebrew …
Raquel Chalfi
(Mandatory Palestine)
The author of nine books of poetry, Raquel Chalfi was born in Israel and lives in Tel …
Ramy Ditzanny
(Israel, 1950)
With seven books of poetry to date, Ramy Ditzanny's oeuvre includes a wide range of …
Shai Dotan
(Israel, 1969)
Shai Dotan was born in Eilat, the resort town at the southernmost tip of Israel, to …
Israel Eliraz
(Mandatory Palestine, 1936)
Israel Eliraz was born in Jerusalem in 1936, the fifth generation of his family to live …
Esther Ettinger
(Mandatory Palestine, 1941)
Esther Ettinger’s work, an editor has remarked, “is infused with her own religious …
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
(Spain, 1021)
Solomon Ibn Gabirol, one of the greatest liturgical poets of the Middle Ages, was a …
Lea Goldberg
(Germany, 1911)
Lea Goldberg was born in Koenigsberg, East Prussia, (today Kaliningrad in Russia), …
Chaim Gouri
(Mandatory Palestine, 1923)
Chaim Gouri – poet, writer, journalist and documentary filmmaker – was born in Tel Aviv …
Tamir Greenberg
(Israel, 1959)
Tamir Greenberg is an architect and serves as head of the architecture and interior …
Zali Gurevitch
(USA, 1949)
Poet and anthropologist Zali Gurevitch answers the figure of a famous Hebrew writer who …
Israel Har
(Poland, 1932)
Israel Har was born in 1932, in the city of Chelm in Poland.
Hedva Harechavi
(Mandatory Palestine, 1941)
Painter and poet Hedva Harechavi was born on Kibbutz Degania B, and has lived since …
Sharron Hass
(Israel, 1966)
The forces of intellect, myth and emotion vie for attention in the poetry of Sharron …
Yair Hurwitz
(Mandatory Palestine, 1941–1988)
Yair Hurwitz was born in Tel Aviv in 1941. He died in 1988 at the tragically early age …
Liat Kaplan
(Israel, 1956)
Liat Kaplan, born on a kibbutz and today a resident of Tel Aviv, is a poet, creative …
Yonadav Kaploun
(Australia, 1963)
Yonadav Kaploun was born in Melbourne and moved to Israel as a child with his parents, …
Admiel Kosman
(Israel, 1957)
Admiel Kosman was born in Haifa to an observant Orthodox Jewish family. His …
Tamir Lahav-Radlmesser
(Israel, 1953)
Tamir Lahav-Radlmesser was born in Jerusalem in 1953. A graduate of the Bezalel Art …
Hezy Leskly
(Israel, 1952–1994)
Poet, choreographer and dance critic Hezy Leskly was born in Israel to Czech Holocaust …
Anat Levin
(Israel, 1973)
Anat Levin was born in Israel to a mother of Russian descent from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, …
Salman Masalha
(Israel, 1953)
Salman Masalha was born in 1953 in the Arab town of Al-Maghar (in the Galilee, northern …
Gilad Meiri
(Israel, 1965)
Gilad Meiri was born in Jerusalem to a father of Syrian Jewish descent and a mother …
Oreet Meital
(Israel, 1957)
The titles of Oreet Meital’s volumes of verse – Problems of Balance and …
Agi Mishol
(Hungary, 1947)
Agi Mishol was born in 1947 in Hungary to Holocaust survivor parents and came to Israel …
Efrat Mishori
(Israel, 1964)
Efrat Mishori, poet, essayist and doctoral student in literature at Tel Aviv …
Nawal Naffaa'
(Israel, 1970)
Writer and artist Nawal Naffaa' was born in the northern Israeli village of Beit …
Tal Nitzán
(Israel)
Tal Nitzán is an award-winning poet, editor and a major Israeli translator of Hispanic …
Amir Or
(Israel, 1956)
A poet who combines the mysteries of the spirit with the joys of the flesh, curious …
Dan Pagis
(Romania, 1930–1986)
Dan Pagis was born into a German-speaking family in Radauti, Bukovina in Romania (now …
Haviva Pedaya
(Israel)
Haviva Pedaya, a poet and scholar, is an excellent cartographer of the soul. Her two …
Esther Raab
(Ottoman Palestine, 1894–1981)
Esther Raab (1894-1981) is often touted as Israel’s first native-born woman poet, with …
Rachel
(Russia, 1890)
The poet Rachel`s life has taken on mythic proportions for Israel`s reading public.
Dahlia Ravikovitch
(Mandatory Palestine, 1936)
Dahlia Ravikovitch was born in Ramat Gan, Israel in 1936. Her language, rich inner life …
Tuvia Ruebner
(Slovakia, 1924)
Tuvia Ruebner was born into a semi-secular, German-speaking Jewish family (his father …
Rami Saari
(Israel, 1963)
Rami Saari was born in Petah Tikva, Israel, and spent his childhood in Argentina and in …
Aharon Shabtai
(Mandatory Palestine, 1939)
Aharon Shabtai was born in 1939 in Tel Aviv and spent his childhood on Kibbutz …
Nano Shabtai
(Israel, 1975)
Poet, dramatist and director Nano Shabtai was born in the small, secular center of …
Yudit Shahar
(Israel, 1959)
If Yudit Shahar may be compared to any other poet, it is to the American Philip Levine, …
Lyor Shternberg
(Israel, 1967)
The poetry of Lyor Shternberg “deflects attention to the dark stains of reality, …
Benjamin Shvili
(Israel, 1954)
Writer Benjamin Shvili is hard to classify. He is, according to scholar Nili Gold, a …
Gali-Dana Singer
(Russia, 1962)
Painting by: Nekoda Singer Gali-Dana Singer, born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in …
Aryeh Sivan
(Mandatory Palestine, 1929)
Aryeh Sivan’s poetry has been said to evoke a sense of shared public experience at the …
Ronny Someck
(Iraq, 1951)
Ronny Someck’s poetry, which has both a local and a universal flavor, has the ability …
David Vogel
(Russia, 1891–1944)
“I love him very much,” says Lilach Netanel, the scholar who discovered the …
Yona Wallach
(Mandatory Palestine, 1944)
Yona Wallach, who was born in Tel Aviv in 1944 and died of breast cancer in 1985, is …
Nathan Wasserman
(Israel, 1962)
Nathan Wasserman, born in Jerusalem in 1962, lives in Jerusalem and teaches Assyriology …
Dorit Weisman
(Israel, 1950)
Poet and translator Dorit Weisman was born April 1950 in Kfar-Saba (Israel) and lives …
Julia Wiener
(USSR, unknown)
For the first time in the history of PI's Israeli domain, we are publishing a poet …
Meir Wieseltier
(Russia, 1941)
Meir Wieseltier was born in Moscow in 1941, just before the Germans invaded Russia. He …
Avoth Yeshurun
(Ukraine, 1904)
Avoth Yeshurun was born in the Ukraine in 1904. He was raised in a Chassidic home and …
Natan Zach
(Germany, 1930)
Natan Zach was born in 1930 in Berlin to a German father and an Italian mother; he …
Nurit Zarchi
(Mandatory Palestine, 1941)
Nurit Zarchi was born in 1941 in Jerusalem. Her father was an author (Israel Zarchi) …
Anat Zecharya
(Israel, 1974)
Anat Zecharya is an outspoken young poet who writes forthrightly about women’s …
Zelda
(Ukraine, 1914)
A spiritual poet who attracted secular readers too, Zelda was born in 1914 in …
Ariel Zinder
(USA, 1973)
Ariel Zinder was born in 1973 in Berkeley, California, where his Israeli father was …
 

 
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