Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim

Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim (; 20 February 1925 – 22 March 2023) was a Lithuanian-born Israeli Yiddish poet and educator. She was the recipient of the Itzik Manger Prize in 1984. Basman was also awarded the Chaim Zhitlowsky Prize in 1998. to parents Yekhezkel and Tsipora (née Heyman). and with him engaged in smuggling Jews out of Europe and past the British naval blockade to enter Mandate Palestine. She also studied literature while in New York at Columbia University. Basman taught the children of the diplomats in Moscow during her time there. She died in Herzliya, Israel on March 22, 2023, at the age of 98.

Awards Basman Ben-Hayim was the recipient of the Itzik Manger Prize in 1984. Likhtike shteyner (Radiant Stones, 1972) Tseshotene kreln (Scattered Beads, 1982) Onrirn di tsayt (To Touch Time, 1988) Di shtilkayt brent (The Silence Burns, 1992) Di erd gedenkt (The Earth Remembers, 1998) Di draytsnte sho (The Thirteenth Hour, 2000) Af a strune fun regn (On a Strand of Rain, 2002)