Bialik Prize

Bialik Prize
Photo from the 1952 Bialik Prize award ceremony. From left to right: awardees David Ben-Gurion and Zalman Shneor, followed by Tel Aviv mayor Israel Rokach.
Awarded for(1) Literature and
(2) Jewish thought
CountryIsrael
Presented byTel Aviv Municipality
First awarded1933; 91 years ago (1933)
Websitehttps://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/Pages/MainItemPage.aspx?WebID=f09859c7-1a46-40e0-8968-9ae31388b659&ListID=229c1b0e-698e-4b08-af1e-e769ab00a112&ItemID=4 Edit this on Wikidata

The Bialik Prize is an annual literary award given by the municipality of Tel Aviv, Israel, for significant accomplishments in Hebrew literature. The prize is named in memory of Israel's national poet Hayyim Nahman Bialik. There are two separate prizes, one specifically for "Literature", which is in the field of fiction, and the other for "Jewish thought" (חכמת ישראל). The prize was established in January 1933, Bialik's 60th birthday.[1]

List of recipients

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Year Recipients of Bialik Prize for Literature Recipients of Bialik Prize for Jewish Thought (חכמת ישראל)
1933 Devorah Baron

Matityahu Shoham

Yehezkel Kaufmann (also 1956)
1934 Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1935 Avraham Freiman Benyamin Menasseh Levin
1936 David Shimoni (also 1949) Raphael Patai

Moshe Zvi Segal (also 1950)

1937 Jacob Steinberg Avraham Kahana
1938 Ya'akov Cohen Baruch Chizik
1939 Asher Barash

Yehuda Burla (also 1954)

Zvi Rudy

Melech Zagrodski

1940 Zelda Mishkovsky

Shaul Tchernichovsky (also 1942)

Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai
1941 Shalom Yosef Shapira Joseph Klausner (also 1949)
1942 Haim Hazaz (also 1970)

Shaul Tchernichovsky (also 1940)

Nahum Slouschz
1943 Aharon Avraham Kabak Abraham Polak
1944 Yehuda Karni

Shlomo Zemach

Yeruḥam Fishel Lachower
1945 Jacob Fichman (also 1953) Yitzhak Baer
1946 Gershon Shofman

Natan Yonatan[2]

Yehudah Gur (Grazowsky)
1947 Uri Zvi Grinberg (also 1954 and 1977) Shmuel Abba Hordotzki
1948 Max Brod Jacob Nachum Epstein
1949 David Shimoni (also 1936) Joseph Klausner (also 1941)
1950 Shmuel Yosef Agnon (also 1934) Moshe Zvi Segal (also 1936)
1951 Zalman Shneur David Ben-Gurion (also 1971)
1952 Isaac Dov Berkowitz (also 1965) Chaim Yehoshua Kosovski (also 1934)
1953 Jacob Fichman (also 1945) Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
1954 Yehuda Burla (also 1939)

Uri Zvi Grinberg (also 1947 and 1977)

Nahman Avigad
1955 Moshe Shamir Michael Avi-Yonah

Shmuel Yeivin

1956 Zvi Vislevsky Yehezkel Kaufmann (also 1933)
1957 Nathan Alterman Saul Lieberman
1958 no award Moshe Zilberg
1959 Avraham Shlonsky

Eliezer Steinman

Moshe Meizlish
1960 no award Yosef Braslavy
1961 Mordechai Ben Yehezkel Martin Buber
1962 Baruch Kurzweil Yosef Qafih (Kapach) (also 1973)
1963 no award Yehoshua Gutman
1964 Yocheved Bat-Miriam Avraham Ya’ari
1965 Isaac Dov Berkowitz (also 1952) Yehuda Ratzaby (also 1979)
1966 Israel Efrat

Zalman Shazar

Shraga Abramson
1967 Shimon Halkin Abba Bendavid
1968 Ezra Zussman Gezel Kressel
1969 Aharon Reuveni Hanoch Albeck
1970 Haim Hazaz (also 1942) Nechemia Aloni
1971 Amir Gilboa David Ben-Gurion (also 1951)
1972 Abraham Regelson Yeshayahu Tishbi
1973 Avraham Kariv

Aharon Megged

Yosef Qafih (Kapach) (also 1962)
1974 Israel Cohen Yehuda Komlosh
1975 Haim Gouri no award
1976 Yehuda Amichai

Yeshurun Keshet

Benyamin Kosovski
1977 Uri Zvi Grinberg (also 1947 and 1954) Gershom Scholem
1978 Abba Kovner

Zelda

Yehoshua Ben-Arieh

Aaron Mirski

1979 Aharon Appelfeld

Avot Yeshurun

Yitzhak Raphael

Yehuda Ratzaby (also 1965)

1980 Dov Sadan Dan Miron
1981 Zrubavel Gilad

Yehoshua Tan-Pi

Avraham Even-Shoshan

Zev Vilnay

1982 Nathan Zach Israel Levin
1983 Nisim Aloni

Ozer Rabin

Ephraim Urbach

Nechama Leibowitz

1984 Yehoshua Bar-Yosef

David Shahar

Mordechai Breuer
1985 Hanoch Bartov

Shlomo Tanai

Hillel Barzel

David Weiss Halivni

Shlomo Pines

1986 Yitzhak Auerbuch-Orpaz

Amos Oz

Ezra Fleischer
1987 Moshe Dor

Dahlia Ravikovitch

Gershon Shaked
1988 Nathan Shaham Israel Eldad

Zvi Meir Rabinovitz

1989 Avner Treinin

A. B. Yehoshua

Shmuel Abramski

Shlomo Morag

1990 T. Carmi

Pinchas Sadeh

Menachem Dorman

Aryeh Kasher

1991 S. Yizhar Mordechai Altshuler

Nathan Rotenstreich

1992 Gabriel Preil no award
1993 David Avidan

Amalia Kahana-Carmon

Yonah Frenkel

Moshe Idel

1994 Hanoch Levin

Meir Wieseltier

Benjamin Pinkus
1995 no award no award
1996 Yehudit Handel

Ya'akov Orland

Avraham Grossman

Yehuda Liebes

1997 Yehoshua Kenaz no award
1998 Nurit Govrin

Ephraim Kishon

Aryeh Sivan

Aharon Dotan

Eliezer Goldman

Menahem Haran

1999 Aharon Almog

Yoram Kaniuk

Nurit Zarchi

no award
2000 no award no award
2001 no award no award
2002 Haim Be'er

Maya Bejerano

Yoel Hoffman

Miriam Roth

Dov Noy

Israel M. Ta-Shma

Israel Jacob Yuval

2003 no award no award
2004 David Grossman

Haya Shenhav

Ephraim Sidon

Moshe Kosovski

Mendel Pikaz

Uriel Simon

2005 no award no award
2006 Ruth Almog

Raquel Chalfi

Uri Orlev

Yosef Gorny

Chava Turniansky

2007 no award no award
2008 Oded Burla

Israel Eliraz

Yeshayahu Koren

Ezra Mendelsohn

David Vital

2009 no award no award
2010 Lea Aini

Shlomit Cohen-Assif

Mordechai Geldman

Devorah Dimant

Immanuel Etkes

2022 Avi Sagi

Ziva Shamir [he]

List of recipients in alphabetical order

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Letter Recipients of Bialik Prize for Literature Recipients of Bialik Prize for Jewish Thought (חכמת ישראל)
A Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1934,[2] 1950)

Lea Aini (2010)

Aharon Almog (1999)

Ruth Almog (2006)

Nathan Alterman (1957)

Yehuda Amichai (1976)

Aharon Appelfeld (1979)

Yitzhak Auerbuch-Orpaz (1986)

David Avidan (1993)

Shmuel Abramski (1989)

Shraga Abramson (1966)

Hanoch Albeck (1969)

Nechemia Aloni (1970)

Nisim Aloni (1983)

Mordechai Altshuler (1991)

Nahman Avigad (1954)

B Hanoch Bartov (1985)

Yehoshua Bar-Yosef (1984)

Yocheved Bat-Miriam (1964)

Haim Be'er (2002)

Maya Bejerano (2002)

Isaac Dov Berkowitz (1952, 1965)

Asher Barash (1939)

Dvora Baron (1933)

Max Brod (1948)

Oded Burla (2008)

Yehuda Burla (1939, 1954)

Yitzhak Baer (1945)

Hillel Barzel (1985)

Yehoshua Ben-Arieh (1978)

Abba Bendavid (1967)

David Ben-Gurion (1951, 1971)

Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1953)

Yosef Braslavy (1960)

Mordechai Breuer (1984)

Martin Buber (1961) Dror Burstein (2022)

C T. Carmi (1990)

Raquel Chalfi (2006)

Israel Cohen (1974)

Ya'akov Cohen (1938)

Shlomit Cohen-Assif (2010)

Amalya Cohen-Carmon (1993)

Baruch Chizik (1938)
D Moshe Dor (1987) Devorah Dimant (2010)

Menachem Dorman (1990)

Aharon Dotan (1998)

E Israel Efrat (1966)

Israel Eliraz (2008)

Israel Eldad (1988)

Jacob Nachum Epstein (1948)

Immanuel Etkes (2010)

Avraham Even-Shoshan (1981)

F Jacob Fichman (1945, 1953)

Gabriel Freil (1992)

Avraham Freiman (1935)

Ezra Fleischer (1986)

Yonah Frenkel (1993)

G Zrubavel Gilad (1981)

Amir Gilboa (1971)

Mordechai Geldman (2010)

Haim Gouri (1975)

Uri Zvi Grinberg (1947, 1954, 1977)

David Grossman (2004)

Nurit Govrin (1998)

Eliezer Goldman (1998)

Yosef Gorny 2006)

Avraham Grossman (1996)

Yehudah Gur (Grazowsky) (1946)

Yehoshua Gutman (1963)

H Shimon Halkin (1967)

Yehudit Handel (1996)

Haim Hazaz (1942, 1970)

Yoel Hoffman (2002)

David Weiss Halivni (1985)

Menahem Haran (1998)

Shmuel Abba Hordotzki (1947)

I - Moshe Idel (1993)
J - -
K Aharon Avraham Kabak (1943)

Yoram Kaniuk (1999)

Yehoshua Kanz (1997)

Avraham Kariv (1973)

Yehuda Karni (1944)

Abba Kazbener (1978)

Yeshurun Keshet (1976)

Ephraim Kishon (1998)

Yeshayahu Koren (2008)

Baruch Kurzweil (1962)

Avraham Kahana (1937)

Yosef Kapach (Qafih) (1962, 1973)

Aryeh Kasher (1990)

Yehezkel Kaufmann (1933, 1956)

Joseph Klausner (1941, 1949)

Yehuda Komlosh (1974)

Benyamin Kosovski (1976)

Chaim Yehoshua Kosovski (1934, 1952)

Moshe Kosovski (2004)

Gezel Kressel (1968)

L Hanoch Levin (1994) Yeruḥam Fishel Lachower (1944)

Nechama Leibowitz (1983)

Benyamin Menasseh Levin (1935)

Israel Levin (1982)

Saul Lieberman (1957)

Yehuda Liebes (1996)

M Aharon Megged (1973)

Zelda (1978)

Moshe Meizlish (1959)

Ezra Mendelsohn (2008)

Avi-Yonah Michael (1955)

Dan Miron (1980)

Aaron Mirski (1978)

Shlomo Morag (1989)

N - Dov Noy (2002)
O Ya'akov Orland (1996)

Uri Orlev (2006)

Yitzhak Auerbuch-Orpaz (1986)

Amos Oz (1986)

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P - Raphael Patai (1936)

Mendel Pikaz (2004)

Shlomo Pines (1985)

Benjamin Pinkus (1994)

Abraham Polak (1943)

Q - Yosef Qafih (Kapach) (1962, 1973)
R Dalya Rabikovich (1987)

Ozer Rabin (1983)

Abraham Regelson (1972)

Aharon Reuveni (1969)

Miriam Roth (2002)

Zvi Meir Rabinovitz (1988)

Yitzhak Rafael (1979)

Yehuda Ratzaby (1965, 1979)

Nathan Rotenstreich (1991)

Zvi Rudy (1939)

S Dov Sadan (1980)

Pinchas Sadeh (1990)

Zelda (1978)

Nathan Shaham (1987)

David Shahar (1984)

Moshe Shamir (1955)

Shalom Yosef Shapira (1941)

Zalman Shazar (1966)

Haya Shenhav (2004)

David Shimoni (1936, 1949)

Avraham Shlonsky (1959)

Zalman Shneur (1951)

Matityahu Shoham (1933)

Gershon Shofman (1946)

Ephraim Sidon (2004)

Aryeh Sivan (1998)

Ya'akov Steinberg (1937)

Eliezer Steinman (1959)

Avi Sagi (2022)

Gershom Scholem (1977) Moshe Zvi Segal (1936, 1950)

Gershon Shaked (1987)

Ziva Shamir (2022)

Uriel Simon (2004)

Nahum Slouschz (1941)

T Shlomo Tanai (1985)

Yehoshua Tan-Pi (1981)

Shaul Tchernichovsky (1940, 1942)

Avner Treinin (1989)

Shlomo Tzemah (1944)

Israel M. Ta-Shma (2002)

Yeshayahu Tishbi (1972)

Chava Turniansky (2006)

Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai (1940)

U - Ephraim Urbach (1983)
V Zvi Vislevsky (1956) Zev Vilnay (1981)

David Vital (2008)

W Meir Wieseltier (1994) -
X - -
Y Mordechai Ben Yehezkel (1961)

A. B. Yehoshua (1989)

Avot Yeshurun (1979)

S. Yizhar (1991)

Natan Yonatan (1946[2])

Avraham Ya’ari (1964)

Shmuel Yeivin (1955) Israel Jacob Yuval (2002)

Z Nathan Zach (1982)

Nurit Zarchi (1999)

Zelda (1978)

Ezra Zussman (1968)

Melech Zagrodski (1939)

Moshe Zilberg (1958)

References

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  1. ^ "The Bialik Prize". Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo (in Hebrew).
  2. ^ a b c See relevant discussion on Talk page
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