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Avoth Yeshurun (Hebrew: אבות ישורון, born 1904; died 1992), also Avot Yeshurun, was the pen name of Yehiel Perlmutter, an acclaimed modern Hebrew poet.

Avoth Yeshurun was born on Yom Kippur in 1904 in Niskhish, Ukraine. His father, Baruch, came from a family of flour mill owners. His mother, Ryckelle (Rachel) was of rabbinic descent. Yeshurun grew up speaking Yiddish. After immigrating to Palestine in 1925, he worked in the construction industry, dredged swamps and picked fruit. Later he worked in a brick factory and for a printer. In 1929 he joined the Haganah. In 1934 he married Pesyah Justman. Their daughter Helit was born in 1942. His first book, Al khokhmat drakhim ("On the wisdom of roads"), was published under his birthname, Yehiel Perlmutter. He changed his name to Avoth Yeshurun in 1948, the night before he was inducted into the Israel Defense Forces.

Avoth Yeshurun died in 1992.

• In 1967, Yeshurun was awarded the Brenner Prize.
• In 1979, he was awarded the Bialik Prize for literature.^[1]
• In 1992, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for Hebrew poetry.^[2]

• "Avot Yeshurun, 88, Poet in Unusual Idiom". New York Times. 24 February 1992. Retrieved 13 November 2008. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |curly= ignored (help)
• Avoth Yeshurun, The Syrian-African Rift and other Poems. Translated by Harold Schimmel. 1980. ISBN 0827601816
• The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself (2003), ISBN 0-8143-2485-1. (Yeshurun was included in the first edition but not in the second edition)

• List of Israel Prize recipients
• List of Bialik Prize recipients

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