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Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim is a Lithuanian-born Israeli poet and author. She was born on 20 February 1925 in Wilkomir, Lithuania. She is the daughter of a rabbi and a teacher. She immigrated to Israel in 1949 and settled in Jerusalem. Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim is a prolific writer and has published numerous books of poetry, short stories, and essays. Her works have been translated into many languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, and Russian. She has won numerous awards for her writing, including the Israel Prize for Literature in 1998. Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim is 98 years old and has a net worth of $1 million. She has earned her wealth through her writing career. She is married and has two children.

Popular As Rivka Basman
Occupation Poet, teacher
Age 98 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 20 February, 1925
Birthday 20 February
Birthplace Vilkmergė, Lithuania
Date of death March 22, 2023
Died Place Herzliya, Israel
Nationality Lithuania

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Her husband is Shmuel Ben-Hayim

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1984

She was the recipient of the Itzik Manger Prize in 1984. Basman was also awarded the Chaim Zhitlowsky Prize in 1998. Other prizes and awards include the Arie Shamri prize in 1980; the Fischman prize in 1983; the prize awarded by the chairman of the World Zionist Federation in 1989; the David Hofstein prize in 1992; The Beit Sholem Aleichem (Polack) prize in 1994; the Leib Malakh prize awarded by Beit Leivick in 1995; and the Mendele prize of the city of Tel Aviv-Yafo in 1997.

1963

During the years 1963 to 1965, her husband became the cultural attaché from Israel to the Soviet Union. Basman taught the children of the diplomats in Moscow during her time there. She also met with Russian Yiddish authors.

1947

In 1947 Basman made aliyah and then joined Kibbutz HaMa'apil. She received her teaching diploma from the Teachers' Seminary in Tel Aviv. She also studied literature while in New York at Columbia University. At her kibbutz she taught children and also joined the Yiddish poets' group Yung Yisroel ("Young Israel") While on the kibbutz she wrote and published her first volume of poetry, Toybn baym brunem (Doves at the Well), in 1959.

1945

Basman started writing poetry at Kaiserwald in order to cheer up fellow inmates. When the camp was liquidated, she saved her poems by smuggling them out in her mouth. After liberation, Basman lived in Belgrade from 1945 to 1947. While there she married Shmuel "Mula" Ben-Hayim and with him engaged in smuggling Jews out of Europe and past the British naval blockade to enter Mandate Palestine.

1925

Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim (Yiddish: רבקה באסמאן; born February 20, 1925) is a 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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