Ya'akov Cohen (writer)
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| Ya'akov Cohen יעקב כהן |
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| Born | June 26, 1881 Slutsk, Russian Empire (now in Belarus) |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Israel |
| Occupation | writer |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Ethnicity | Jewish |
| Citizenship | Israeli |
| Notable awards | Bialik Prize (1938) Israel Prize (1953 and 1958) |
Ya'akov Cohen (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
Cohen 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, Cohen was awarded the Bialik Prize for Literature.[1]
- In 1953 and again in 1958, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for literature.[2][3]
- 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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