List of Yiddish-language poets

Poets who wrote, or write, much or all of their poetry in the Yiddish language include:

A

 * Moyshe Altman

B

 * Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim
 * Israil Bercovici
 * Olexander Beyderman
 * Źmitrok Biadula
 * Hayim Nahman Bialik
 * Benjamin J. Bialostotzky
 * Rachel Boymvol
 * Moishe Broderzon
 * Srul Bronshtein

D

 * Der Nister (Pinchus Kahanovich)
 * Celia Dropkin

E

 * David Edelstadt
 * Mendel Elefant
 * Israel Emiot
 * Alter Esselin

F

 * Itzik Fefer
 * Leon Feinberg
 * Mikhoel Felsenbaum
 * Rukhl Fishman
 * Chaim Leib Fox

G

 * Mordechai Gebirtig
 * Aron Glantz-Leieles (alternative English spelling: Glanz-Leyeles (1899–1968), Polish native and Yiddish poet writing in the United States)
 * Jacob Glatstein (alternative English spelling: Yankev Glatshteyn)
 * Hirsh Glick
 * Abraham Goldfaden
 * Pincus Goodman
 * Chaim Grade
 * Eliezer Greenberg
 * Uri Zvi Greenberg

H

 * Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
 * Binem Heller
 * David Hofstein

I

 * Reuben Iceland

K

 * Itzhak Katzenelson
 * Emmanuil Kazakevich
 * Rokhl Korn
 * Moyshe Kulbak
 * Leib Kvitko

L

 * Mani Leib
 * H. Leivick (1888-1962), born in Russia, emigrated to the United States; called "foremost" Yiddish poet and dramatist
 * Abraham Liessin (1872-1948), American
 * Moshe Lifshits (1894-1940)
 * Malka Locker
 * A. Lutzky

M

 * Itzik Manger
 * Anna Margolin
 * Peretz Markish
 * N. B. Minkoff
 * Kadia Molodowsky

P

 * Rikuda Potash
 * Gabriel Preil (alternative English spelling: "Gabriel Preyl")

R

 * Abraham Regelson
 * Avrom Reyzen (Abraham Reisen)
 * Chava Rosenfarb
 * Morris Rosenfeld

S

 * Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
 * Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
 * Eliezer Schindler
 * S.L. Shneiderman
 * Meyer Shtiker
 * Fradl Shtok
 * Joel Slonim
 * Abraham Nahum Stencl
 * Jacob Sternberg
 * Abraham Sutzkever

T

 * Dora Teitelboim
 * Malka Heifetz Tussman

U

 * Miryem Ulinover

V

 * Leyb Vaserman

W

 * Morris Winchevsky

Y

 * Yehoash (Blumgarten)

Z

 * Aaron Zeitlin
 * Rajzel Żychlińsky