Esther Raab

Esther Raab (; April 25, 1894 – September 4, 1981) was a Hebrew author of prose and poetry, known as "the first Sabra poet," due to her eminence as the first Israeli woman poet and for the prominence of her native landscape in her imagery.

Biography Esther Raab was born and raised in the rural moshava of Petah Tikva in Palestine (part of Ottoman Syria at the time), to founding residents Judah (Yehuda) and Leah Raab. Raab's grandfather was an immigrant from the Hungarian village of Szentistván who moved to Palestine with his son in 1876 and settled in Jerusalem. Raab was the second of four children born to Yehuda and Leah, Yehuda's second wife. In 1914, she returned to Petah Tikva.

In 1921, Raab visited her cousins, the Green family, in Cairo, Egypt. In December 1921, Raab married her cousin, Yitzhak Green, in Cairo. Raab’s first poetry collection, Kimshonim ("Thistles"), was published in 1930.

Awards and recognition 1964 – for literature, awarded by the Municipality of Holon for the poetry book The Poems of Esther Raab (in Hebrew) 1972 – the Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works

Published works 'Books in Hebrew

English: Selected Poems of Esther Raab, translated by Ehud Ben-Ezer and the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, Bnei Brak, 1996 English: Thistles: Selected Poems of Esther Raab'', translated and introduced by Harold Schimmel, Jerusalem, 2002,