Poets who wrote, or write, much or all of their poetry in the Yiddish language include:

A Moyshe Altman

B Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim Israil Bercovici Olexander Beyderman Źmitrok Biadula Hayim Nahman Bialik Benjamin J. Bialostotzky Rachel Boymvol Moishe Broderzon Srul Bronshtein

D Der Nister (Pinchus Kahanovich) Celia Dropkin

E David Edelstadt Mendel Elefant Israel EmiotBritannica Book of the Year 1967, 1967 (for events of 1966), "Literature" section, "Jewish" subsection, "Yiddish" sub-subsection, page 493 Alter EsselinLiptzin, Sol, A History of Yiddish Literature, Jonathan David Publishers, Middle Village, NY, 1972, , pp.352-353.

F Itzik Fefer Leon Feinberg Mikhoel Felsenbaum Rukhl Fishman Chaim Leib Fox

G Mordechai Gebirtig Aaron Glanz-Leyeles, Polish native and Yiddish poet writing in the United States)Kravitz, Nathaniel, "3,000 Years of Hebrew Literature", Chicago: Swallow Press Inc., 1972, Appendix B ("Other Hebrew Writers and Scholars"), pp 555-559 Jacob Glatstein (alternative English spelling: Yankev Glatshteyn) Hirsh Glick Abraham Goldfaden Pincus Goodman Chaim Grade Eliezer Greenberg Uri Zvi Greenberg

H Moyshe-Leyb Halpern Binem Heller David Hofstein

I Reuben Iceland

K Itzhak Katzenelson Emmanuil Kazakevich Evgeny Kissin Rokhl KornKorn, R. (1982). Generations: Selected Poems (R. Augenfeld and S. Mayne, Trans.). Oakville, Ont.: Mosaic Press/Valley Editions. Moyshe Kulbak Leib Kvitko

L Mani Leib H. Leivick (1888-1962), born in Russia, emigrated to the United States; called "foremost" Yiddish poet and dramatist Abraham Liessin (1872-1948), American Moshe Lifshits (1894-1940)Reyzen, Zalman 1927: Leksikon fun der yidisher literatur : Prese un filologye. Vol. II, Vilnius. Zalmen Zilbertsvayg, Jacob Mestel: Leksikon fun yidishen teater. Vol. II, 1934, Column 1130 ff. The Hebrew Actors Union of America. Warsaw; Samuel Niger, Jacob Shatzky: Leksikon fun der nayer yidisher literatur. Vol. V, 1963, Col. 220 ff. New York. Malka Locker A. Lutzky

M Leib Malach Itzik Manger Anna MargolinMargolin, A. (2005). Drunk From the Bitter Truth: the Poems of Anna Margolin (S. Kumove, Trans.). Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press. Peretz Markish Yoel Matveyev N. B. Minkoff Kadia MolodowskyMolodowsky, K. (1999). Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky (K. Hellerstein, Trans.). Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

O Hirsch Osherovich

P Rikuda Potash Gabriel Preil (alternative English spelling: "Gabriel Preyl")

R Abraham Regelson Avrom Reyzen (Abraham Reisen) Chava RosenfarbRosenfarb, C. (2013). Exile at Last: Selected Poems (G. Morgentaler, Ed.). Toronto: Guernica. Morris Rosenfeld

S Boris Sandler Beyle Schaechter-GottesmanSchaechter-Gottesman, B. (1995). Lider (T. Bird, et al., Trans.). Merrick, N.Y.: Cross-Cultural Communications. Gitl Schaechter-ViswanathScaechter-Viswanath, G. (2003). Plutsemdiker Regn: Lider (Y. Shandler and S. Berger, Trans.). Tel Aviv: Yisroel Bukh. Eliezer Schindler S.L. Shneiderman Meyer Stiker Fradl Shtok Joel Slonim Abraham Nahum Stencl Jacob Sternberg Abraham Sutzkever

T Dora TeitelboimTeitelboim, D. (1995). All My Yesterdays Were Steps: the Selected Poems of Dora Teitelboim (A. Kramer, Trans.). Hoboken, N.J.: Dora Teitelboim Foundation, Ktav Publishing House. Malka Heifetz TussmanTussman, M. (1992). With Teeth in the Earth: Selected Poems of Malka Heifetz Tussman (M. Falk, Trans.). Detroit: Wayne State University Press. U Miriam Ulinover Article in an online version of a print encyclopedia.

V Leyb Vaserman

W Morris Winchevsky

Y Yehoash (Blumgarten)

Z Aaron Zeitlin Rajzel ŻychlińskyZychlinsky, R. (1997). God Hid His Face: Selected Poems (B. Zumoff, A. Kramer, M. Kanter, et al., Trans.). Santa Rosa, C.A.: Word & Quill Press.

See also

List of Hebrew-language poets

References