Ya'akov Cahan

Ya'akov Cahan or Kahan was an Israeli poet, playwright, translator, writer and Hebrew linguist.

Biography

Ya'akov Cahan was born in Slutsk, in the Russian Empire, now Belarus. He immigrated to the 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 German of the first part of Goethe's Faust and other works by Goethe, as well as a selection of poems by Heinrich Heine.