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Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim

1925–2023

Nationality
Israel
Occupation
poet

Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim (Yiddish: רבקה באסמאן; 20 February 1925 – 22 March 2023) was a Lithuanian-born Israeli Yiddish poet and educator.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp
    Dates unknown

Biography

Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim (Yiddish: רבקה באסמאן; 20 February 1925 – 22 March 2023) was a Lithuanian-born Israeli Yiddish poet and educator. She was the recipient of the Itzik Manger Prize in 1984. Basman was also awarded the Chaim Zhitlowsky Prize in 1998.

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