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page 1Yiddish-language poets
Marc Chagall
Belarusian-French artist (1887–1985)
Zalman Shazar
3rd President of Israel (1963–1973)
Hayim Nahman Bialik
Hebrew poet, author, and editor (1873–1934)
Abraham Sutzkever
Russian-born Yiddish poet and Holocaust survivor (1913-2010)
Sholem Schwarzbard
Russian-born Moldovan-French Yiddish poet of Jewish descent and anarchist (1886-1938)
Elia Levita
Renaissance Hebrew grammarian, scholar and poet (1469–1549)
Emmanuil Kazakevich
Soviet writer (1913-1962)
Mordechai Gebirtig
Yiddish writer (1877–1942)
Itzik Feffer
Soviet Yiddish poet (1900-1952)
Peretz Markish
Soviet Yiddish poet and playwright
Itzhak Katzenelson
Jewish teacher, poet and dramatist, murdered in Holocaust (1886-1944)
Yehiel De-Nur
Jewish Holocaust survivor and writer (1909–2001)
Leib Kvitko
Soviet Yiddish poet (1890-1952)
Itzik Manger
Israeli Yiddish poet (1901-1969)
Zalman Shneur
Jewish (Hebrew and Yiddish) author (1887-1959)
Morris Rosenfeld
American poet writing in Yiddish
Chava Rosenfarb
Holocaust survivor and Jewish-Canadian author
Moyshe Kulbak
Soviet writer (1896-1937)
Rachel Korn
Yiddish writer (1898-1982)
Hirsh Glick
jewish poet and resistance member (1922–1944)
Jacob Glatstein
Polish-American Yiddish poet (1896-1971)
Irena Klepfisz
lesbian Polish-American author, activist
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
Yiddish author (1886-1932)
Leib Naidus
Russian Empire Yiddish poet (1890–1918)
Dovid Gofshteyn
Soviet poet in Yiddish language (1889-1952)
Avrom Reyzen
Yiddish writer and poet (1876–1953)
H. Leivick
American writer and Yiddish poet (1888-1962)
Shmerke Kaczerginsky
Polish poet (1908–1954)
Rachel Boymvol
Israeli poet (1914–2000)
Ion Călugăru
Romanian writer (1902-1956)
Isabella Grinevskaya
Russian-Polish writer and poet
Eliakum Zunser
Lithuanian Yiddish writer (1840–1913)
Shmuel Halkin
Soviet poet (1897-1960)
Boris Sandler
Soviet writer and journalist
Moishe Broderzon
Polish Jewish poet and theatre director (1890-1956)
Leibu Levin
Yiddish artistic narrator, singer, composer (1914–1983)
Eliezer Steinbarg
Romanian Jewish poet
Esther Segal
Ukrainian-born Canadian Yiddish-language poet
Ida Maze
Canadian poet
David Einhorn
American writer
Yankev Shternberg
Yiddish poet and playwright (1890–1973)

Mani Leib
Yiddish-language poet
Rebecca bat Meir Tiktiner
Yiddish-language writer
Abba Gordin
Israeli anarchist (1887–1964)
Chaim Yellin
Yiddish poet and leader of the resistance movement in the Kovno Ghetto
Israil Bercovici
Romanian writer (1921-1988)
Melech Ravitch
Yiddish writer (1893–1976)
Aron Vergelis
Soviet Yiddish poet and publicist (1918–1999)
Malka Locker
Israeli poet, translator, literary theorist
Samuel Hirszhorn
Polish journalist and writer (1876-1942)
Ovsey Driz
Soviet poet writing in Yiddish
Hirsch Oscherowitsch
Israeli poet (1908–1994)
Rajzel Zychlinski
Polish writer of Yiddish poetry (1910–2001)

Miriam Ulinower
Polish Jewish poet
J. I. Segal
Canadian Yiddish poet and journalist
Srul Bronshtein
Romanian writer (1913–1943)
Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim
Israeli Yiddish poet (1925–2023)
Abraham Nahum Stencl
Yiddish poet (1897–1983)
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
Yiddish poet and songwriter (1920-2013)
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