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Abba Kovner (אבא קובנר)
Abba Kovner (אבא קובנר, 1918–1987), Hebrew poet, Vilna ghetto partisan leader, head of the Nakam avengers, Givati Brigade culture officer, Israel Prize 1970 laureate, and Diaspora Museum founder.
Eleh Ezkerah
Eleh Ezkerah (אלה אזכרה, "These I remember") is a medieval Ashkenazic liturgical poem mourning the Ten Martyrs, ten rabbis executed by the Romans for teaching Torah, recited on Yom Kippur.
Hebrew lyric poetry
Hebrew lyric poetry is first-person poetry in Hebrew expressing love, nature, mourning, or reflection, spanning biblical psalms, medieval verse in Spain, and modern Israeli poetry.
Kinot
Kinot (Hebrew: קינות; singular kinah) are Hebrew liturgical poems of lament recited on Tisha B'Av, mourning the destruction of the Temples, Jerusalem, and later tragedies including the Holocaust.
Mizrahi poetry
Mizrahi poetry (Hebrew: שירה מזרחית) is Hebrew poetry by Jewish Israelis of Middle Eastern and North African origin that took shape in the 1970s, led by Erez Biton and Roni Somek.
Modern Hebrew poetry
Modern Hebrew poetry is poetry written in Hebrew from the late eighteenth-century Haskalah onward, emerging in Eastern Europe and canonized by Hayim Nahman Bialik's second book in 1908.
Piyyut of the Land of Israel
Piyyut of the Land of Israel is the Hebrew liturgical poetry composed in the synagogues of Palestine from late antiquity, first appearing around the 5th century CE.
Psalm 119
Psalm 119 (תהלים קיט) is the Bible's longest chapter, a 176-verse Hebrew alphabetic acrostic of 22 eight-verse stanzas, one per letter from aleph to tav, meditating on Torah through eight recurring synonyms.
Psalms of Asaph (אסף)
Psalms of Asaph (אסף), biblical Psalms 50 and 73–83 in the Masoretic Psalter, attributed to Asaph the Levite musician of David's court and his descendant guild; Elohistic, historically themed collection spanning preexilic to exilic scholarship.
Shirei ha-Hol
Shirei ha-Hol (שירי החול, "Songs of the Secular") is the collected secular Hebrew poetry of Solomon ibn Gabirol, an eleventh-century Andalusian Jewish poet and philosopher.
Tahkemoni
The Tahkemoni (ספר תחכמוני, Sefer Taḥkemoni) is a collection of fifty Hebrew maqamas by the Spanish-Jewish poet Judah al-Harizi, written in the early thirteenth century.
The Liturgical Poems of Yannai
The Liturgical Poems of Yannai are Hebrew synagogue poems (piyyut) written by Yannai, a sixth-century paytan of Byzantine Palestine and the first Hebrew poet to sign works by acrostic.
The Poems of Yose ben Yose
The Poems of Yose ben Yose are Hebrew liturgical poems by Yose ben Yose, the earliest Jewish liturgical poet known by name, whose Shofar-service poems remain in the Ashkenazi liturgy.
Yotzer
Yotzer (Hebrew: יוצר, "He creates") is a genre of Hebrew liturgical poetry, or piyyut, embellishing the blessings around the Shema, named for the blessing "Yotzer Or."
Zulat
Zulat (זולת) is a genre of Hebrew liturgical poetry, or piyyut, inserted into the Ge'ullah blessing after the morning Shema, recited mainly on Sabbaths and festivals.