About Ya'akov Cahan
Lived 1881 – 1960 (aged 79). Ya'akov Cahan was an Israeli poet, playwright, translator, philologist, linguist and writer.
Ya'akov Cahan or Kahan (, 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. 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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Who was Ya'akov Cahan?
Israeli writer (1881-1960)
When was Ya'akov Cahan born?
Ya'akov Cahan was born on 26 June 1881 in Slutsk.
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Ya'akov Cahan died on 20 November 1960 in Tel Aviv.
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Ya'akov Cahan was a poet, playwright, translator, philologist, linguist and writer.
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Ya'akov Cahan was Israeli.
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