Hebrew-language poets

Yona Wallach (Hebrew: יונה וולך‎‎; June 10, 1944 – September 29, 1985) was an Israeli poet.

Meir of Rothenburg (c. 1215–1293) was a German Rabbi and poet, a major author of the tosafot on Rashi's commentary on the Talmud.

Zelda Schneersohn Mishkovsky (June 20, 1914 – April 30, 1984) (Hebrew: זלדה שניאורסון-מישקובסקי‎‎), widely known as Zelda, was an Israeli poet.

Rabbi Abraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם אִבְּן עֶזְרָא or ראב"ע‎‎, Arabic: ابن عزرا‎‎; also known as Abenezra or Aben Ezra, 1089–1167) was born in Tudela, Navarre in 1089, and died c.

Samuel ibn Naghrillah (Hebrew: שמואל הלוי בן יוסף הנגיד‎‎, Sh'muel HaLevi ben Yosef HaNagid; Arabic: أبو إسحاق إسماعيل بن النغريلة‎‎ Abu Iṣḥāq Ismā‘īl bin an-Naghrīlah), also known as Samuel HaNagid (Hebrew: שמואל הנגיד‎‎, Shmuel HaNagid, lit. Samuel the Prince) (born 993; died after 1056), was a Talmudic scholar, grammarian, philologist, soldier, politician, patron of the arts, and an influential medieval Hebrew poet who lived in Iberia at the time of the Moorish rule.

Dahlia Ravikovitch (Hebrew: דליה רביקוביץ'‎‎; November 17, 1936 – August 21, 2005) was an Israeli poet, translator, and peace activist.

Eleazar ben Killir, also known as Eleazar Kalir, Eleazar Qalir or El'azar HaKalir (c. 570 – c. 640) was a Hebrew poet whose classical liturgical verses, known as piyut, have continued to be sung through the centuries during significant religious services, including those on Tisha B'Av and on the sabbath after a wedding.

Solomon ibn Gabirol (alt. Solomon ben Judah) (Hebrew: שלמה בן יהודה אבן גבירול‎‎ Shlomo Ben Yehuda ibn Gabirol, pronounced [ʃlɵ.mɵ bɛn jɛ.ˈhuː.də ˈɪ.bn ˌgə.bi.ˈrɒːl]; Arabic: أبوأيوب سليمان بن يحيى بن جبيرول‎‎ Abu Ayyub Sulayman bin Yahya bin Jabrirul, pronounced [æ.ˈbuː æy.ˈyuːb ˌsu.læj.ˈmæːnɪ bnɪ ˌjæ'hyæː bnɪ dʒæ.biː.'ruːl]) was an 11th-century Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher with a Neo-Platonic bent.

Reuven Ben-Yosef (Hebrew: ראובן בן יוסף‎‎; 1937–2001) was an Israeli poet

David Shimoni (Hebrew: דוד שמעוני) (August 25, 1891 – December 10, 1956) was an Israeli poet, writer and translator.

Rabbi Moses ben Jacob ibn Ezra, known as Ha-Sallaḥ ("writer of penitential prayers") (Arabic: أبو هارون موسى بن يعقوب ابن عزرا‎‎, Abu Harun Musa bin Ya'acub ibn Ezra, Hebrew: משה בן יעקב הסלח אבן עזרא‎‎) was a Jewish, Spanish philosopher, linguist, and poet.

Jacob ben Meir (1100 in Ramerupt – 9 June 1171 (4 tammuz) in Troyes), best known as Rabbeinu Tam, was one of the most renowned Ashkenazi Jewish rabbis and leading French Tosafists, a leading halakhic authority in his generation, and a grandson of Rashi.

Immanuel ben Solomon ben Jekuthiel of Rome (Immanuel of Rome, Immanuel Romano, Manoello Giudeo) (1261, Rome – 1328, Fermo, Italy) was an Italian-Jewish scholar and satirical poet.

Rachel Bluwstein Sela (September 20 (Julian calendar), 1890 – April 16, 1931) was a Hebrew-language poet who immigrated to Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire, in 1909.

Yitshak Orpaz (Hebrew: יצחק אוורבוך אורפז) (born 1923) was an Israeli writer.

Miriam Yalan-Shteklis (sometimes translated Miriam Yalan-Stekelis) (Hebrew: מרים ילן-שטקליס‎‎) (21 September 1900 – 9 May 1984) was an Israeli writer and poet famous for her children's books.

Shabazi was born in 1619 in the town of al-Ṣaʻīd.

Judah Halevi (also Yehuda Halevi or ha-Levi; Hebrew: יהודה הלוי and Judah ben Shmuel Halevi יהודה בן שמואל הלוי; Arabic: يهوذا اللاوي‎‎; c. 1075 – 1141) was a Spanish Jewish physician, poet and philosopher.

Abraham Dob Bär Lebensohn ( Traditional Jewish Lithuanian pronunciation : Avrohom Dov Beyr Leybenzon ) (born in Vilnius, Russian Empire c. 1789/1794; died there November 19, 1878) was a Lithuanian Jewish Hebraist, poet, and grammarian.

Dror Elimelech (Hebrew: דרור אלימלך) (born 1956 in Israel) is an Israeli psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and poet, and a composer and performer of contemporary classical music.

Dunash ha-Levi ben Labrat (920-990) (Hebrew: דוֹנָש הלוי בֵּן לָבְרָט‎‎; Arabic: دناش بن لبراط‎‎) was a medieval Jewish commentator, poet, and grammarian of the Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain.

Simon Bacher (Hungarian: Bacher Simon; February 1, 1823, Liptovský Mikuláš - November 9, 1891, Budapest) was a Hungarian Neo-Hebraic poet.

Élie Halévy (Ḥalfan/Chalfan), or Élie Halfon-Halévy (Fürth 1760 – 5 November 1826 Paris), was a French Hebrew poet and author.

Ronen Elimelech Altman Kaydar (Hebrew: רונן אלטמן קידר‎‎; born October 1, 1972) is an Israeli writer and poet.

Rami Saari (Hebrew: רמי סערי‎‎; b. 17 September 1963, Petah Tikva, Israel) is an Israeli poet, translator, linguist and literary critic.

Ada Aharoni (b. Andrée Yadid, 1933) is an Egyptian-born Israeli poet, writer, lecturer and peace researcher.

Esther Raab (Hebrew: אסתר ראב‎‎; April 25, 1894 – September 4, 1981) was a Hebrew author of prose and poetry, known as "the first Sabra poet", for the prominence of her native landscape in her imagery.

Joseph Massel (also Yoysef Mazl, born near Vilna, Russia, 1850; d. Manchester, 1912) was a Zionist activist, writer, Hebrew poet and translator.

Lea Aini (Hebrew: לאה איני‎‎) (born 1962 Tel Aviv), is an Israeli author and poet, who has written over twenty books.

Ezra Fleischer (Hebrew: עזרא פליישר‎‎; 14 July 1928 – 25 July 2006) was a Romanian-Israeli Hebrew-language poet and philologist.

Gabriel Preil (Hebrew: גבריאל פרייל; August 21, 1911 – June 5, 1993) was a modern Hebrew poet active in the United States, who wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish.

Hermann Wassertrilling, or Hebrew: Ẓebi-Hirsch ben Nathan Wassertrilling, (Zwi-)Hirsch Wassertrilling (born in Boskowitz, Moravia) was an Austrian Hebraist who flourished in the 19th century.

Shem-Tov ben Joseph ibn Falaquera, also spelled Palquera (1225 – c. 1290) (Hebrew: שם טוב בן יוסף אבן פלקירה) was a Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet and commentator.

Samuel David Luzzatto (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsamwel ˈdavid lutˈtsato]; Hebrew: שמואל דוד לוצאטו‎‎) was an Italian Jewish scholar, poet, and a member of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement.

Isaac ben Abraham Uziel (d. April 1, 1622, Amsterdam) (Hebrew: יצחק בן אברהם עזיאל) was a Spanish physician, poet and grammarian, born at Fez.

Max (Meïr Halevi or Myer Levi) Letteris (September 13, 1800, Zolkiev – May 19, 1871, Vienna) was an Austrian Jewish scholar and the foremost poet of the Galician Haskala.

Shimon Adaf (Hebrew: שמעון אדף‎‎, born 1972) is an Israeli poet and author born in Sderot.

Jose b. Jose (Hebrew: יוסי בן יוסי‎‎) was an early payyetan who lived in Palestine in the 6th century CE.

Yannai (Hebrew: יניי or ינאי‎‎) was the first payyetan to employ rhyme and introduce his name in acrostics.

David Franco Mendes was a Jewish Hebrew-language poet, born in Amsterdam Aug.

Zvi Yair (Hebrew: צבי יאיר‎‎) is the pen-name of the Hebrew poet and Chassidic scholar, Rabbi Zvi Meir Steinmetz (Hebrew: צבי מאיר שטיינמץ‎‎; 1915–2005).

Zechariah (Yaḥya) al-Ḍāhirī (Hebrew: זכריה אלצ'אהרי‎‎, pronounced [zekharˈyah al-dhahˈiri]; often spelled Zechariah al-Dhahiri (Arabic: زكريا الضاهري‎‎); the son of Saʻīd (Saʻadia) al-Ḍāhirī, from Kawkaban, in the District of al-Mahwit, Yemen, a place north-west of Sana’a, b. circa 1531 – d. 1608) was a Yemenite Jewish poet and rabbinic scholar of the 16th century who left Yemen in search of a better livelihood and who traveled to Calicut and Cochin in India, Hormuz in Persia, Basra and Irbīl in Babylonia, Bursa and Istanbul in Turkey, Rome in Italy, Aleppo and Damascus in Syria, Safed and Tiberius, as well as Jerusalem and Hebron in the Land of Israel, Sidon in Lebanon and Egypt, and finally unto Abyssinia where he returned to Yemen by crossing the Erythraean Sea and alighting at a port c

Maxim Ghilan (1931–2005) was an Israeli poet and activist.

Robert Whitehill was born in 1947 in High Point, North Carolina, and grew up in Lubbock, Texas, where he attended Texas Tech University.

Isaac ben Judah ibn Ghiyyat (or Ghayyat) (Hebrew: יצחק בן יהודה אבן גיאת‎‎, Arabic: ﺇﺑﻦ ﻏﻴﺎث‎‎ ibn Ghayyath) (1038–1089) was a Spanish rabbi, Biblical commentator, philosopher, and liturgical poet.

Mordechai Geldman (Hebrew: מרדכי גלדמן‎‎; b. 1946) is an Israeli artist, author, poet and psychologist.

Yitzhak Lamdan (Hebrew: יצחק למדן; ‎ 7 November 1899 – 17 November 1954) was an Israeli Hebrew-language poet, translator, editor and columnist.

Salman Masalha (Arabic: سلمان مصالحة‎‎, Hebrew: סלמאן מצאלחה‎‎; born November 4, 1953) is a poet, writer, essayist and translator.

Abraham Regelson (1896–1981; Hebrew: אברהם רגלסון) was an Israeli Hebrew poet, author, children's author, translator, and editor.

Yehudit Kafri Meiri (Hebrew: יהודית כפרי מאירי‎‎) is a 20th–21st century Israeli poet and a writer, as well as editor and translator.

Israel ben Moses Najara (Hebrew: ישראל בן משה נאג'ארה, "Yisrael ben Moshe Najarah"; Arabic: إسرائيل بن موسى النجارة‎‎, "Isra'il bin Musa al-Najara"; c. 1555, Safed, Ottoman Empire – c. 1625, Gaza, Ottoman Empire) was a Jewish liturgical poet, preacher, Biblical commentator, kabbalist, and rabbi of Gaza.

Immanuel Frances (22 July 1618 (?) - after 1703) was an Italian Jewish poet and rabbinical scholar.

Isaac ben Saul Chmelniker Candia was a Hebrew poet who lived at Warsaw, Poland, in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Jacob ben Joab Elijah da Fano was an Italian rabbi and Hebrew poet; he lived at Ferrara and Ancona about the middle of the sixteenth century.

Janice Rebibo (née Silverman; January 31, 1950 – March 11, 2015) was an American-born Israeli poet who began writing in Hebrew in the mid-1980s.

Sami Shalom Chetrit (born 1960; Hebrew: סמי שלום שטרית) is a Moroccan- born Hebrew poet and Israeli social and peace activist.