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 the German of the first part of Goethe's Faust and other Goethe's works, Torquato Tasso and Iphigenia in Tauris, as well as a selection of poems by Heinrich Heine.