Ya'akov Cahan
Ya'akov Cahan or Kahan (born 26 June 1881; died 20 November 1960) was an Israeli poet, playwright, translator, writer and Hebrew linguist.
Ya'akov Cahan
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- Name
- Ya'akov Cahan
- Born
- 26 June 1881
- Birthplace
- Slutsk, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire (now in Belarus)
- Died
- 20 November 1960
- Place of death
- Tel Aviv, Israel
- Occupation
- writer
- Awards
- Bialik Prize (1938) Israel Prize (1953 and 1958)
- Nationality
- Israel.
- Honours
- Israel Prize, Bialik Prize and Tchernichowsky Prize.
- Languages
- Hebrew.
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Ya'akov Cahan or Kahan (born 26 June 1881; died 20 November 1960) was an Israeli poet, playwright, translator, writer and Hebrew linguist.
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• Name — Ya'akov Cahan • Native Name — יעקב כהן • Born — 26 June 1881 • Birthplace — Slutsk, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire (now in Belarus) • Died — 20 November 1960 • Place of death — Tel Aviv, Israel • Occupation — writer • Language — Hebrew • Citizenship — Israeli • Awards — Bialik Prize (1938) Israel Prize (1953 and 1958)
Biography
Biography
Ya'akov Cahan was born in Slutsk, in the Russian Empire, now Belarus. He immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1934.
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Ya'akov Cahan is recorded as having received Israel Prize, Bialik Prize and Tchernichowsky Prize.
POET AND DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY YA'ACOV COHEN. פורטרט של המשורר, יעקב כהן.
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1881
Ya'akov Cahan born at Slutsk.
1960
Ya'akov Cahan died at Tel Aviv.
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• 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 (Torquato Tasso and Iphigenia in Tauris), as well as a selection of poems by Heinrich Heine.
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