The Rubinlicht Prize for outstanding contribution to

Yiddish Yiddish, historically Judeo-German, is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated in 9th-century Central Europe, and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with ...

literature and scholarship was established in 1977 to honour Yiddish poet Leib Rubinlicht (1899,

Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...

– 1985,

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( or , ; ), sometimes rendered as Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a popula ...

List of recipients

*2024 **

Boris Sandler Boris Sandler (; born January 6, 1950, in Beltz) is a Yiddish-language author, journalist, playwright and lyricist and the former editor of the Yiddish edition of the '' Forward''. Early life; career beginnings Boris Sandler was born in 1950 ...

** *2023 **

Ghil'ad Zuckermann Ghil'ad Zuckermann (, ; ) is an Israeli-born language revivalist and linguist who works in contact linguistics, lexicology and the study of language, culture and identity. Zuckermann was awarded the Rubinlicht Prize (2023) "for his researc ...

*2020 **

Dovid Katz Dovid Katz (Yiddish: , also , Hirshe-Dovid Kats, , born 9 May 1956) is an American-born Vilnius-based scholar, author, and educator specializing in Yiddish language and literature, Lithuanian-Jewish culture, and the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. ...

*2019 **

Karen Alkalay-Gut Karen Alkalay-Gut (; born 29 March 1945) is a poet, professor, and editor who lives in Israel and writes in English. Personal life Alkalay-Gut was born in London. She moved with her parents and brother Joseph Rosenstein to Rochester, New York in ...

*2015 **"Grapevine: Four-footed friends"
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Jerusalem Post ''The Jerusalem Post'' is an English-language Israeli broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem, Israel, founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as ''The Palestine Post''. In 1950, it changed its name to ''The Je ...

'', 26 November 2015. ** *2006 ** *2004 ** *1982 ** Mordechai Hillel Kroshnitz

References

{{reflist Yiddish-language literature Israeli literary awards 1977 establishments in Israel Awards established in 1977 Lists of Israeli award winners Academic awards Poetry awards Jewish literary awards