Ya'akov Cahan Explained

Ya'akov Cahan
Birth Date:	June 26, 1881
Birth Place:	Slutsk, Russian Empire (now in Belarus)
Death Place:	Israel
Occupation:	writer
Language:	Hebrew
Citizenship:	Israeli
Awards:	Bialik Prize (1938) Israel Prize (1953 and 1958)

Ya'akov Cahan or Kahan (Hebrew: יעקב כהן, born 26 June 1881; died 20 November 1960) 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.^[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 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.

See also

• List of Israel Prize recipients
• List of Bialik Prize recipients

Notes and References

1. Web site: List of Bialik Prize recipients 1933–2004 (in Hebrew), Tel Aviv Municipality website.
2. Web site: Israel Prize recipients in 1953 (in Hebrew). Israel Prize Official Site . https://web.archive.org/web/20110819115026/http://cms.education.gov.il/educationcms/units/prasisrael/tashyag/tashkab_tashyag_rikuz.htm?dictionarykey=tashyag. live. 19 August 2011.
3. Web site: Israel Prize recipients in 1958 (in Hebrew). Israel Prize Official Site . https://web.archive.org/web/20120208115723/http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/Tashyag/Tashkab_Tashyag_Rikuz.htm?DictionaryKey=Tashyah. live. 8 February 2012.