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Biblical
Early Middle Ages
Golden Age in Spain
- Joseph ibn Abitur
- Abraham Abulafia
- Meir Halevi Abulafia
- Todros Abulafia
- Levi ibn Altaban
- Yehuda Alharizi
- Judaben Samuel Halevi (born c. 10861
- Joseph ibn Hisdai
- Dunash ben Labrat (Tenth century)1
- Santob De Carrion (late Fourteenth century), also a proverb writer1
- Abraham ibn Ezra, also known as Abraham ben Meir ibn Ezra (1088-1167), known mainly for Biblical commentaries and grammar works1
- Isaac ibn Ezra
- Moses ibn Ezra (1070-1139)1
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol (1021-1058)1
- Isaac ibn Ghiyyat
- Yehuda Halevi
- Judah al-Harizi (1190-1240)1
- 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 commentator2
- Meir ben Baruch, known as Ma'aram of Rothenburg (1215-1293), a Talmudist, Tosafist and liturgidal poet ande one of the foremost leadeers of Ashkenazic Jews1
- Judah Ben Samuel Halevi (born c. 1086), called the "greatest German-Jewish lyric poet"1
- Judah he-Hasid
- Samuel he-Hasid
- Eleazer ben Judah ben Kalonymus of Worms (1176-1238), a Talmudist, Cabalist, moralist, scientist and poet1
Medieval France
- Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi (1270-1340), a poet, philosopher and physician born in Beziers1
- Joseph ben Isaac Bekor Shor (Twelfth century) of Orleans, a Tosafist, exegete and poet1
Safed, Palestine Cabalists
- Solomon Alkabiz (Sixteenth century)1
- Israel ben Moses Najara1 (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 scholar1
- Daniel ben Judah (late Fourteenth century), liturgical poet2
- 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 poet1
- Moses da Rieti
- Sarah Copia Sullam (d. 1641)1
- Joseph Zarfati
North Africa and Yemen
Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah)
- Isaac Erter (1792-1851) satirist and poet1
- 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
- Reuben Avinoam (1905-)
B
- Maya Bejerano
- Menahem Ben (Braun)
- Yakir Ben Moshe
- Haim Nachman Bialik (1873-1934)1
- Erez Biton
- Miri Ben Simhon
C
- Abraham Chalfi
- Rahel Chalfi
- T. Carmi
- Shlomit Cohen-Assif
- Sami Shalom Chetrit
- Jacob Cohen (1881-1960)1
D
E
- David Edelstadt (1866-1892), workers poet and one of the first Jewish poets in the United States2
- Israel Efrat
- Shelley Elkayam
F
- Jacob Fichman (1881-1958) a critic, essayist and poet1
- Larry Friefeld (Elazar)
- Lois Friefeld
- Simeon Samuel Frug (1860-1922), wrote in Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew1
G
- Mordechai Geldman
- Orit Gidali
- Amir Gilboa
- Simon Ginzburg (1890-1944)1
- Haim Gouri
- Leah Goldberg (1911-1970), born in Lithuania, emigrated to Israel2
- Uri Zvi Greenberg (Tur Malka)
H
- Simon Halkin
- Avigdor Hameyeri (1886-1970), born in Carpato-Russ and emigrated to Israel in 1921; also a novelist2
- 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 Jews2
- Admiel Kosman
- Abba Kovner
L
- Isaac Lamdan (1899-1954)1
- Yitzhak Laor(b. 1948) Israeli poet, author, and journalist
- Haim Lensky
- 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 Hebrew2
- Solomon Mandelkern (1846-1902), Ukrainian poet and scholar; author of the Hebrew concordance, Hekal Hakodesh2
- Mordecai Zevi Manne (1859-1886)1
- Sabina Messeg
- Agi Mishol (b. 1947) Hungarian-born Israeli poet
O
P
- Dan Pagis
- Alexander Penn
- Isaac Loeb Peretz (1851-1915) wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish1
- Elisha Porat
- Daniel Preil (1911- )1
R
- Rachel (1887-1959)1
- Yonathan 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 Kalman2
- Aharon Reuveni
- Tuvya Ruebner
S
- Yossi Sarid
- Zalman Schnaiur (1887-1959), novelist and poet1
- 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
W
Y
Z
- Nathan Zach
- Nurit Zarchi
- Zelda
- Eliezer Zebi Zweifel (1815-1888), also a Russian scholar, comentator and defender of Hassidism2
- Eliakum Zunser (1836-1913) wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish1
- Stephan Zweig (1881-1942), born in Vienna; also a biographer and dramatist2
- Zvi Yair
Notes
- ^ 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 ax ay Kravitz, Nathaniel, "3,000 Years of Hebrew Literature", Chicago: Swallow Press Inc., 1972,
- ^ 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