Ya'akov Cahan

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Israel Prize (1953 and 1958)

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Ya'akov Cahan or Kahan ({{langx|he|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.{{Cite web| title = List of Bialik Prize recipients 1933–2004 (in Hebrew), Tel Aviv Municipality website| url = http://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/Hebrew/_MultimediaServer/Documents/12516738.pdf}}
In 1953 and again in 1958, he was awarded the Israel Prize for literature.{{cite web |url=http://cms.education.gov.il/educationcms/units/prasisrael/tashyag/tashkab_tashyag_rikuz.htm?dictionarykey=tashyag|title=Israel Prize recipients in 1953 (in Hebrew)|publisher=Israel Prize Official Site |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110819115026/http://cms.education.gov.il/educationcms/units/prasisrael/tashyag/tashkab_tashyag_rikuz.htm?dictionarykey=tashyag|url-status=live|archivedate=19 August 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/Tashyag/Tashkab_Tashyag_Rikuz.htm?DictionaryKey=Tashyah|title=Israel Prize recipients in 1958 (in Hebrew)|publisher=Israel Prize Official Site |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20120208115723/http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/Tashyag/Tashkab_Tashyag_Rikuz.htm?DictionaryKey=Tashyah|url-status=live|archivedate=8 February 2012}}
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.