Yehoash (poet)

Solomon Blumgarten
Born(1872-09-16)September 16, 1872
DiedJanuary 10, 1927(1927-01-10) (aged 54)
Pen nameYehoash
LanguageYiddish

Solomon Blumgarten (Yiddish: שלמה בלומגאַרטען; 16 September 1872 – 10 January 1927), known by his pen name Yehoash (יהואַש), was a Yiddish poet, scholar, and translator. Yehoash was "generally recognized by those familiar with [Yiddish] literature, as its greatest living poet and one of its most skillful raconteurs", according to The New York Times book review in 1923.