List of Hebrew-language poets
This is a list of Hebrew-language poets :
Biblical
Early Middle Ages
Golden Age in Spain
- Joseph ibn Abitur
- Abraham Abulafia
- Meir Halevi Abulafia
- Todros ben Judah Halevi Abulafia
- Samuel he-Hasid
- Todros Abulafia
- Yehuda Alharizi
- Judah Ben Samuel Halevi
- Dunash ben Labrat
- Santob De Carrion, also a proverb writer
- Abraham ibn Ezra, also known as Abraham ben Meir ibn Ezra, known mainly for Biblical commentaries and grammar works
- Moses ibn Ezra
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
- Isaac ibn Ghiyyat
- Solomon ibn Zakbel, born in Spain, he fled to Narbonne, Provence, where he became known as a grammarian, exegete, poet, and translator.
- Shmuel haNagid, also known as Samuel ibn Naghrela or Samuel Ha-Naggid
- Menahem ibn Saruq
- Joseph ben Jacob ibn Zaddik
Medieval Germany
- Baruch of Worms, liturgical poet and commentator
- Meir ben Baruch, known as Ma'aram of Rothenburg, a Talmudist, Tosafist and liturgical poet
- Judah he-Hasid
- Eleazer ben Judah ben Kalonymus of Worms, a Talmudist, Cabalist, moralist, scientist and poet
Medieval France
- David Hakohen, composer of piyyutim from Avignon
- Isaac Gorni, troubadour from Aire-sur-l'Adour
- Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi, poet, philosopher and physician born in Béziers
- Joseph ben Isaac Bekor Shor, Tosafist, exegete and poet from Orléans
Safed Cabalists
- Solomon Alkabetz
- Israel ben [Moses Najara]
Italian Renaissance
- Deborah Ascarelli
- Immanuel Frances
- Immanuel the Roman also known as Immanuel ben Solomon and Immanuel of Rome, a satirical poet and scholar
- Daniel ben Judah, liturgical poet
- Moses Judah Abbas
- Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, also known as Moses Hayyim Luzzatto
- Judah Leone Modena, also known as: Leon Modena or Yehudah Aryeh Mi-modena, a rabbi, orator, scholar, teacher and poet
- Sara Copia Sullam
North Africa and Yemen
Jewish Enlightenment ([Haskalah])
- Isaac Erter satirist and poet
- Judah Leib Gordon, also known as "Judah Löb ben Asher Gordon" or "Leon Gordon"
- Abraham Baer Gottlober
- Abraham Dob Bär Lebensohn
- Micah Joseph Lebensohn
- Meir Halevi Letteris
- Isaac Baer Levinsohn
- Samuel David Luzzatto
- Rahel Luzzatto Morpurgo
- Süsskind Raschkow
- Constantin Shapiro
- Hermann Wassertrilling
- Naphtali Hirz Wessely
- Hannah Bluma Sultz
Modern Hebrew
A
- Shimon Adaf, Israeli poet and author
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon
- Ada Aharoni
- Lea Aini
- Nathan Alterman, also known as Natan Alterman, Israeli journalist, translator and popular poet
- Ronen Altman Kaydar
- Yehudah Amichai, Israeli poet and one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew
- Aharon Amir
- Aharon Appelfeld
- Roy Arad
- Dan Armon
- David Avidan, Israeli poet, painter, filmmaker, publicist and playwright
B
- Simon Bacher
- Yocheved Bat-Miriam, German-born Israeli
- Menahem Ben
- Itamar Ben Canaan
- Yakir Ben Moshe
- Avraham Ben-Yitzhak
- Reuven Ben-Yosef
- Fania Bergstein
- Haim Nachman Bialik
- Ya'qub Bilbul
- Erez Biton
C
D
E
F
- Jacob Fichman a critic, essayist and poet
- Ezra Fleischer
- Simeon Samuel Frug, wrote in Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew
G
- Yehonatan Geffen
- Mordechai Geldman
- Amir Gilboa
- Simon Ginzburg
- Uri Nissan Gnessin
- Haim Gouri
- Leah Goldberg, born in Lithuania, immigrated to Israel
- Uri Zvi Greenberg
H
- Simon Halkin
- Avigdor Hameiri, born in Carpato-Russ and immigrated to Israel in 1921; also a novelist
- Hedva Harekhavi
- Shulamith Hareven
- Paul Hartal
- Galit Hasan-Rokem
- Roy Hasan
- Haim Hazaz
- Haim Hefer
- Dalia Hertz
- Amira Hess
- Ayin Hillel
- Yair Hurvitz
I
- Naphtali Herz Imber, the author of Hatikvah, called "the Jewish national hymn"
K
- Yehudit Kafri
- Ben Kalman, see Abraham Reisen
- Itzhak Katzenelson, murdered in Auschwitz
- Admiel Kosman
- Abba Kovner
L
- Yitzhak Lamdan
- Yitzhak Laor Israeli poet, author, and journalist
- Haim Lensky, also known as "Hayyim Lensky", Russian poet who wrote in Hebrew; imprisoned in Soviet labor camps after 1934, where he wrote most of his verse
- Giora Leshem
- Hezi Leskali
- Hanoch Levin
- Judah Lob Levin
- Ephraim Lisitzky
M
- Meir Leibush Malbim, notable Russian Bible commentator who wrote some poetry in Hebrew
- Salomon Mandelkern, Ukrainian poet and scholar; author of the Hebrew concordance, Hekal Hakodesh
- Mordecai Zvi Mane
- Reda Mansour
- Salman Masalha
- Margalit Matitiahu
- Rivka Miriam
- Agi Mishol, Hungarian-born Israeli poet
N
O
P
- Dan Pagis
- Alexander Penn
- Isaac Loeb Peretz, wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish
- Israel Pinkas
- Anda Pinkerfeld Amir
- Elisha Porat
- Daniel Preil
- Gabriel Preil
R
- Rachel in English, sometimes transcribed as "Ra'hel" or "Rahel", also known as "Rachel the poetess", pen name of Rachel Bluwstein Sela, poet who immigrated to Palestine in 1909
- Yonatan Ratosh
- Dahlia Ravikovitch
- Janice Rebibo
- Abraham Regelson
- Abraham Reisen, Russian native who immigrated to the United States; prolific poet and prose writer; pen name: Ben Kalman
- Tuvya Ruebner
S
- Rami Saari
- Yossi Sarid
- Zalman Shneur, novelist and poet
- A. A. Schwartz
- Amir Segal
- Aharon Shabtai
- Yaakov Shabtai
- Amnon Shamossh
- Zalman Shazar
- Naomi Shemer
- David Shimonowitz, also known as "David Shimoni"
- Abraham Shlonsky
- Simha Siani
- Tal Slutzker
- Ronny Someck
- Jacob Steinberg
- Hannah Szenes
T
- Shaul Tchernichovsky, also known as Saul Tchernihowsky*
- Yoram Taharlev,
- Benjamin Tene
V
W
Y
Z
- Nathan Zach
- Nurit Zarchi
- Zelda
- , also a Russian scholar, commentator and defender of Hassidism
- Stephan Zweig,, wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish
- Eliakum Zunser,, born in Vienna; also a biographer and dramatist