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

A

  • <!-- Altman --> Moyshe Altman

B

  • <!-- Basman Ben-Haim --> Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim
  • <!-- Bercovici --> Israil Bercovici
  • <!-- Beyderman --> Olexander Beyderman
  • Źmitrok Biadula
  • <!-- Bialik --> Hayim Nahman Bialik
  • <!-- Bialostotzky -->Benjamin J. Bialostotzky
  • <!-- Baumvoll --> Rachel Boymvol
  • <!-- Broderzon --> Moishe Broderzon
  • Srul Bronshtein

D

  • <!-- Pinchas Kahanovitsh --> Der Nister (Pinchus Kahanovich)
  • <!-- Dropkin --> Celia Dropkin

E

  • <!-- Edelstadt --> David Edelstadt
  • <!--Elefant--> Mendel Elefant
  • <!-- Israel Emiot --> Israel Emiot
  • <!-- Esselin --> Alter Esselin

F

  • <!-- Feffer --> Itzik Fefer
  • <!-- Feinberg --> Leon Feinberg
  • <!-- Felsenbaum --> Mikhoel Felsenbaum
  • <!-- Fishman --> Rukhl Fishman
  • <!-- Fox --> Chaim Leib Fox

G

  • <!-- Gebirtig --> Mordechai Gebirtig
  • Aaron Glanz-Leyeles, Polish native and Yiddish poet writing in the United States)
  • <!-- Glatstein --> Jacob Glatstein (alternative English spelling: Yankev Glatshteyn)
  • <!-- Kulbak --> Moyshe Kulbak
  • <!-- Kvitko --> Leib Kvitko

L

  • <!-- Mani Leib --> Mani Leib
  • <!-- Leivick --> H. Leivick (1888-1962), born in Russia, emigrated to the United States; called "foremost" Yiddish poet and dramatist
  • Malka Locker
  • <!-- Lutzky --> A. Lutzky

M

  • <!-- Malach --> Leib Malach
  • <!-- Manger --> Itzik Manger
  • <!-- Margolin --> Anna Margolin
  • <!-- Markish --> Peretz Markish
  • Yoel Matveyev
  • <!-- Minkoff --> N. B. Minkoff
  • <!-- Molodowsky --> Kadia Molodowsky

O

  • Hirsch Osherovich

P

  • Rikuda Potash
  • <!-- Preil --> Gabriel Preil (alternative English spelling: "Gabriel Preyl")
  • <!-- Rosenfeld --> Morris Rosenfeld

S

  • Boris Sandler
  • <!-- Schaechter --> Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
  • <!-- Schaechter --> Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
  • <!-- Schindler --> Eliezer Schindler
  • <!-- Shneiderman -->S.L. Shneiderman
  • <!-- Stiker --> Meyer Stiker
  • <!-- Stencl --> Abraham Nahum Stencl
  • <!-- Sternberg --> Jacob Sternberg
  • <!-- Sutzkever --> Abraham Sutzkever

T

  • <!-- Teitelboim -->Dora Teitelboim
  • <!-- Tussman -->Malka Heifetz Tussman

U

  • <!-- Ulinover -->Miriam Ulinover

V

  • <!-- Vaserman --> Leyb Vaserman

See also

  • List of Hebrew-language poets

References