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Ya'akov Cahan

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Occupation
  
writer

Ethnicity
  
Jewish

Died
  
20 November 1960, Israel

Language
  
Hebrew

Citizenship
  
Israeli

Born
  
June 26, 1881 Slutsk, Russian Empire (now in Belarus) (
1881-06-26
)

Notable awards
  
Bialik Prize (1938), Israel Prize (1953 and 1958)

Ya'akov Cahan or Kahan (Hebrew: יעקב כהן) (born 26 June 1881; died 20 November 1960) was an Israeli poet, playwright, translator, writer and Hebrew linguist.

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Early life

Cahan was born in 1881 in Slutsk, in the Russian Empire, now in Belarus, and emigrated to the then British Mandate of Palestine in 1934.

Awards

  • In 1938, Cahan was awarded the Bialik Prize for Literature.
  • In 1953 and again in 1958, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for literature.
  • In 1956, he received the Tchernichovsky Prize for exemplary translation, for translations from the German of the first part of Goethe's Faust and other Goethe's works, Torquato Tasso and Iphigenia in Tauris, as well as a selection of poems by Heinrich Heine.

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