Ya'akov Cohen (writer)

Ya'akov Cohen יעקב כהן
Born	June 26, 1881(1881-06-26) Slutsk, Russian Empire (now in Belarus)
Died	November 20, 1960(1960-11-20) (aged 79) Israel
Occupation	writer
Language	Hebrew
Ethnicity	Jewish
Citizenship	Israeli
Notable award(s)	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.

1 Early life
2 Awards
3 References
4 See also

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.

References

^ "List of Bialik Prize recipients 1933–2004 (in Hebrew), Tel Aviv Municipality website". http://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/Hebrew/_MultimediaServer/Documents/12516738.pdf.
^ "Israel Prize recipients in 1953 (in Hebrew)". Israel Prize Official Site. Archived from the original on 24 January 2010 by WebCite. http://www.webcitation.org/5n1ADmz0X.
^ "Israel Prize recipients in 1958 (in Hebrew)". Israel Prize Official Site. Archived from the original on 17 January 2010 by WebCite. http://www.webcitation.org/5mqejxurH.

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Name	Cohen, Yaakov
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Date of birth	26 June 1881
Place of birth	Slutsk, Russian Empire (now in Belarus)
Date of death	20 November 1960
Place of death	Israel

Ya'akov Cohen (writer)

Contents

Early life

Awards

References

See also