Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Ya'akov Cahan

Index Ya'akov Cahan

Ya'akov Cahan or Kahan (יעקב כהן, born 26 June 1881; died 20 November 1960) was an Israeli poet, playwright, translator, writer and Hebrew linguist. [1]

17 relations: Aliyah, Belarus, Bialik Prize, Goethe's Faust, Hebrew language, Heinrich Heine, Iphigenia in Tauris (Goethe), Israel, Israel Prize, Jews, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, List of Israel Prize recipients, Mandatory Palestine, Russian Empire, Slutsk, Tchernichovsky Prize, Torquato Tasso (play).

Aliyah

Aliyah (עֲלִיָּה aliyah, "ascent") is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel in Hebrew).

New!!: Ya'akov Cahan and Aliyah · See more »

Belarus

Belarus (Беларусь, Biełaruś,; Беларусь, Belarus'), officially the Republic of Belarus (Рэспубліка Беларусь; Республика Беларусь), formerly known by its Russian name Byelorussia or Belorussia (Белоруссия, Byelorussiya), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe bordered by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest.

New!!: Ya'akov Cahan and Belarus · See more »

Bialik Prize

The Bialik Prize is an annual literary award given by the municipality of Tel Aviv, Israel for significant accomplishments in Hebrew literature.

New!!: Ya'akov Cahan and Bialik Prize · See more »

Goethe's Faust

Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two.

New!!: Ya'akov Cahan and Goethe's Faust · See more »

Hebrew language

No description.

New!!: Ya'akov Cahan and Hebrew language · See more »

Heinrich Heine

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic.

New!!: Ya'akov Cahan and Heinrich Heine · See more »

Iphigenia in Tauris (Goethe)

Iphigenia in Tauris (Iphigenie auf Tauris) is a reworking by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe of the ancient Greek tragedy Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Ταύροις (Iphigeneia en Taurois) by Euripides.

New!!: Ya'akov Cahan and Iphigenia in Tauris (Goethe) · See more »

Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.

New!!: Ya'akov Cahan and Israel · See more »

Israel Prize

The Israel Prize (פרס ישראל) is an award handed out by the State of Israel and is generally regarded as the state's highest cultural honor.

New!!: Ya'akov Cahan and Israel Prize · See more »

Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

New!!: Ya'akov Cahan and Jews · See more »

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman.

New!!: Ya'akov Cahan and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · See more »

List of Israel Prize recipients

This is a complete list of recipients of the Israel Prize from the inception of the Prize in 1953 through 2017.

New!!: Ya'akov Cahan and List of Israel Prize recipients · See more »

Mandatory Palestine

Mandatory Palestine (فلسطين; פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א"י), where "EY" indicates "Eretz Yisrael", Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity under British administration, carved out of Ottoman Syria after World War I. British civil administration in Palestine operated from 1920 until 1948.

New!!: Ya'akov Cahan and Mandatory Palestine · See more »

Russian Empire

The Russian Empire (Российская Империя) or Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.

New!!: Ya'akov Cahan and Russian Empire · See more »

Slutsk

Slutsk (officially transliterated as Sluck, Слуцк; Слуцк; Słuck, Sluckas, Yiddish/Hebrew: סלוצק Slotsk) is a city in Belarus, located on the Sluch River south of Minsk.

New!!: Ya'akov Cahan and Slutsk · See more »

Tchernichovsky Prize

The Tchernichovsky Prize is an Israeli prize awarded to individuals for exemplary works of translation into Hebrew.

New!!: Ya'akov Cahan and Tchernichovsky Prize · See more »

Torquato Tasso (play)

Torquato Tasso is a play in verse by the German dramatist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the sixteenth-century Italian poet, Torquato Tasso.

New!!: Ya'akov Cahan and Torquato Tasso (play) · See more »

Redirects here:

Ya'akov Cohen (poet), Ya'akov Cohen (writer).

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya'akov_Cahan

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »