List of Yiddish-language poets

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

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 Emiot<ref name=boy67>Britannica Book of the Year 1967, 1967 (for events of 1966), "Literature" section, "Jewish" subsection, "Yiddish" sub-subsection, page 493</ref>
• Alter Esselin<ref>Liptzin, Sol, A History of Yiddish Literature, Jonathan David Publishers, Middle Village, NY, 1972, Template:ISBN, pp.352-353.</ref>

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)<ref name=nk>Kravitz, Nathaniel, "3,000 Years of Hebrew Literature", Chicago: Swallow Press Inc., 1972, Appendix B ("Other Hebrew Writers and Scholars"), pp 555-559</ref>
• Jacob Glatstein (alternative English spelling: Yankev Glatshteyn)<ref name=boy67/>
• 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 Korn<ref>Korn, R. (1982). Generations: Selected Poems (R. Augenfeld and S. Mayne, Trans.). Oakville, Ont.: Mosaic Press/Valley Editions.</ref>
• 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<ref name=nk/>
• Abraham Liessin (1872-1948), American<ref name=nk/>
• Moshe Lifshits (1894-1940)<ref name="lifshits">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.</ref>
• Malka Locker
• A. Lutzky

M

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

O

• Hirsch Osherovich

P

• Rikuda Potash
• Gabriel Preil (alternative English spelling: "Gabriel Preyl") <ref name=boy67/>

R

• Abraham Regelson
• Avrom Reyzen (Abraham Reisen)
• Chava Rosenfarb<ref name=boy67/><ref>Rosenfarb, C. (2013). Exile at Last: Selected Poems (G. Morgentaler, Ed.). Toronto: Guernica.</ref>
• Morris Rosenfeld

S

• Boris Sandler
• Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman<ref>Schaechter-Gottesman, B. (1995). Lider (T. Bird, et al., Trans.). Merrick, N.Y.: Cross-Cultural Communications.</ref>
• Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath<ref>Scaechter-Viswanath, G. (2003). Plutsemdiker Regn: Lider (Y. Shandler and S. Berger, Trans.). Tel Aviv: Yisroel Bukh.</ref>
• Eliezer Schindler<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• S.L. Shneiderman
• Meyer Stiker<ref name=boy67/>
• Fradl Shtok
• Joel Slonim<ref name=":3">Template:Cite book</ref>
• Abraham Nahum Stencl
• Jacob Sternberg
• Abraham Sutzkever

T

• Dora Teitelboim<ref>Teitelboim, 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.</ref>
• Malka Heifetz Tussman<ref>Tussman, M. (1992). With Teeth in the Earth: Selected Poems of Malka Heifetz Tussman (M. Falk, Trans.). Detroit: Wayne State University Press.</ref>

U

• Miriam Ulinover<ref>Template:Cite book Article in an online version of a print encyclopedia.</ref>

V

• Leyb Vaserman<ref name=boy67/>

W

• Morris Winchevsky

Y

• Yehoash (Blumgarten)

Z

• Aaron Zeitlin
• Rajzel Żychlińsky<ref>Zychlinsky, R. (1997). God Hid His Face: Selected Poems (B. Zumoff, A. Kramer, M. Kanter, et al., Trans.). Santa Rosa, C.A.: Word & Quill Press.</ref>

See also

• List of Hebrew-language poets