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class="bday">1925-02-20</span>)</span>20 February 1925<br /><a href="/wiki/Ukmerg%C4%97" title="Ukmergė">Vilkmergė</a>, Lithuania</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">22 March 2023<span style="display:none">(2023-03-22)</span> (aged 98)<br /><a href="/wiki/Herzliya" title="Herzliya">Herzliya</a>, Israel</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;">Poet, teacher</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Language</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Yiddish_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Yiddish language">Yiddish</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Shmuel Ben-Hayim</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim</b> (<a href="/wiki/Yiddish_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Yiddish language">Yiddish</a>: <span lang="yi" dir="rtl">רבקה באסמאן</span>; 20 February 1925 – 22 March 2023) was a Lithuanian-born Israeli <a href="/wiki/Yiddish_literature" title="Yiddish literature">Yiddish poet</a> and educator. She was the recipient of the <a href="/wiki/Itzik_Manger_Prize" title="Itzik Manger Prize">Itzik Manger Prize</a> in 1984.<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Archive_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Archive-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Basman was also awarded the <a href="/wiki/Chaim_Zhitlowsky" title="Chaim Zhitlowsky">Chaim Zhitlowsky</a> Prize in 1998.<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Archive_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Archive-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rivka_Basman_Ben-Hayim&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rivka Basman was born in <a href="/wiki/Ukmerg%C4%97" title="Ukmergė">Vilkmergė</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lithuania" title="Lithuania">Lithuania</a> on 20 February 1925,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to parents Yekhezkel and Tsipora (née Heyman).<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While in school, she and her friends were excited to read the poems and stories of <a href="/wiki/Kadya_Molodowsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Kadya Molodowsky">Kadya Molodowsky</a>, a Yiddish woman writer.<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Basman's father and her younger brother Arele were killed by the Germans in the Baltic.<sup id="cite_ref-lyrikzeitung_2015_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lyrikzeitung_2015-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, Basman spent about two years in the <a href="/wiki/Vilna_ghetto" class="mw-redirect" title="Vilna ghetto">Vilna ghetto</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After that she was sent to the <a href="/wiki/Kaiserwald_concentration_camp" title="Kaiserwald concentration camp">Kaiserwald concentration camp</a> in <a href="/wiki/Riga" title="Riga">Riga</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Basman started writing poetry at Kaiserwald in order to cheer up fellow inmates.<sup id="cite_ref-Archive_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Archive-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the camp was liquidated, she saved her poems by smuggling them out in her mouth.<sup id="cite_ref-Archive_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Archive-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After <a href="/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps#Liberation" title="Nazi concentration camps">liberation</a>, Basman lived in <a href="/wiki/Belgrade" title="Belgrade">Belgrade</a> from 1945 to 1947. While there she married Shmuel "Mula" Ben-Hayim<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and with him engaged in smuggling Jews out of Europe and past the British naval blockade to enter <a href="/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine" title="Mandatory Palestine">Mandate Palestine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Archive_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Archive-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rivka_Basman_Ben-Hayim&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1947 Basman made <a href="/wiki/Aliyah" title="Aliyah">aliyah</a> and then joined Kibbutz <a href="/wiki/HaMa%27apil" title="HaMa'apil">HaMa'apil</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Archive_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Archive-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She received her teaching diploma from the Teachers' Seminary in Tel Aviv.<sup id="cite_ref-Blue_Lyra_Review_2016_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blue_Lyra_Review_2016-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She also studied <a href="/wiki/Literature" title="Literature">literature</a> while in New York at <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Blue_Lyra_Review_2016_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blue_Lyra_Review_2016-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At her kibbutz she taught children and also joined the Yiddish poets' group <i>Yung Yisroel</i> ("Young Israel")<sup id="cite_ref-Archive_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Archive-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While on the kibbutz she wrote and published her first volume of poetry, <i>Toybn baym brunem</i> <i>(Doves at the Well)</i>, in 1959.<sup id="cite_ref-Archive_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Archive-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Writing_career">Writing career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rivka_Basman_Ben-Hayim&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Writing career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the years 1963 to 1965, her husband became the <a href="/wiki/Cultural_attach%C3%A9" title="Cultural attaché">cultural attaché</a> from <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-lyrikzeitung_2015_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lyrikzeitung_2015-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Basman taught the children of the diplomats in <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> during her time there.<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She also met with Russian Yiddish authors.<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Basman Ben-Hayim wrote her poems mostly in Yiddish.<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since that time many of her poems have been translated into Hebrew.<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While he was living, her husband did the design and all of the illustrations for her books.<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After his death, she took his family name and added it in with hers.<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Basman Ben-Hayim continued to write poetry and was the head of the Union of Yiddish Writers located in <a href="/wiki/Tel_Aviv" title="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_College/SUNY_2010_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_College/SUNY_2010-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life_and_death">Personal life and death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rivka_Basman_Ben-Hayim&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Basman Ben-Hayim resided in <a href="/wiki/Herzliya_Pituah" title="Herzliya Pituah">Herzliya Pituah</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_College/SUNY_2010_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_College/SUNY_2010-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She died in <a href="/wiki/Herzliya,_Israel" class="mw-redirect" title="Herzliya, Israel">Herzliya, Israel</a> on March 22, 2023, at the age of 98.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rivka_Basman_Ben-Hayim&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Basman Ben-Hayim was the recipient of the <a href="/wiki/Itzik_Manger_Prize" title="Itzik Manger Prize">Itzik Manger Prize</a> in 1984.<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Archive_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Archive-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Basman was also awarded the <a href="/wiki/Chaim_Zhitlowsky" title="Chaim Zhitlowsky">Chaim Zhitlowsky</a> Prize in 1998.<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Archive_2-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Archive-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 <a href="/wiki/Tel_Aviv" title="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv-Yafo</a> in 1997.<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Books_of_poetry">Books of poetry</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rivka_Basman_Ben-Hayim&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Books of poetry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Toybn baym brunem</i> (<i>Doves at the Well</i>, 1959)<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Bleter fun vegn</i> (<i>Leaves of the Paths</i>, 1967)<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Likhtike shteyner</i> (<i>Radiant Stones</i>, 1972)<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Tseshotene kreln</i> (<i>Scattered Beads</i>, 1982)<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Onrirn di tsayt</i> (<i>To Touch Time</i>, 1988)<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Di shtilkayt brent</i> (<i>The Silence Burns</i>, 1992)<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Di erd gedenkt</i> (<i>The Earth Remembers</i>, 1998)<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Di draytsnte sho</i> (<i>The Thirteenth Hour</i>, 2000)<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Af a strune fun regn</i> (<i>On a Strand of Rain</i>, 2002)<sup id="cite_ref-Newman_2003_1-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newman_2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rivka_Basman_Ben-Hayim&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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.cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFNewman2009" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Newman, Zelda Kahan (1 March 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/basman-ben-hayim-rivka">"Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim"</a>. <i>Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia</i>. <a href="/wiki/Jewish_Women%27s_Archive" title="Jewish Women's Archive">Jewish Women's Archive</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 March</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Forward&rft.atitle=Yiddish+poet+Rivka+Basman+Ben-Hayim+has+died+at+98&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fforward.com%2Fyiddish%2F540947%2Fyiddish-poet-rivka-basman-ben-hayim-has-died-at-98%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARivka+Basman+Ben-Hayim" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFBasman1967" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Basman, Rivka (1967). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/yiddish-books/spb-nybc206084/basman-rivka-bleter-fun-vegn"><i>Bleṭer fun ṿegn</i></a> (in Yiddish). 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