Admiel Kosman (Hebrew:אדמיאל קוסמן; born in 1957) is an Israeli poet and professor ofTalmud.

Admiel Kosman was born inHaifa,Israel to anOrthodox Jewish family. His father hailed from a German Jewish family living in France, and his mother immigrated from Iraq.^[1] After serving in theIsrael Defense Forces in an artillery unit and attendingYeshivat Hakotel in the Old City ofJerusalem, he studied graphic art and pottery at theBezalel Academy of Art and Design. He did his Ph.D. inTalmud atBar-Ilan University inRamat Gan.^[1]

Kosman has four children from his first marriage.^[1]

Since relocating to Berlin, Kosman is a professor of Religious and Jewish Studies at theUniversity of Potsdam and the academic director ofAbraham Geiger Reform Rabbinical Seminary.^[1]

Kosman is the author of eight books of poetry. His poems often deal with the tension between his religious faith and artistic sensibilities. Kosman has also written three volumes ofpost-modern scholarship ongender in traditional Jewish texts. In 2000, he was invited byNobel Prize–winning Polish poetsCzeslaw Milosz andWislawa Szymborska to participate in an interfaith festival inKraków, Poetry – between Prayer and Song.^[1]

Kosman has been awarded national prizes for poetry including:

• theBernstein Prize (original Hebrew-language poetry category) (1991)
• thePrime Minister's Prize (1976, 1992)
• theBrenner Prize (2000)^[1]

• And Then the Act of Poetry, 1980 [Ve-Aharei Mora`ot Ma`ase Ha-Shir]
• The Prince's Raiment, 1988 [Bigdei Nasich]
• Soft Rags, 1991 [Smartutim Rakim]
• What I Can, 1995 [Ma Ani Yachol]
• We Reached God, 1998 [Higanu Le-Elohim]
• Forty Love Poems and Two Additional Love Poems to God, 2003 [Arbaim Shirei Ahava Ve-Shnei Shirei Ahava Nosafim Le-Elohim]^[2]
• Proscribed Prayers, Siddur Alternativi, Seventy One New Poems), Hakibutz Hameuchad, Tel Aviv 2007
• You’re Awesome! (Ktaim Itcha), Hakibutz Hameuchad, Tel Aviv 2011
• Approaching You in English: Selected Poems of Admiel Kosman, translated by Lisa Katz and Shlomit Naim-Naor (Zephyr Press, 2011)

• Gender and Dialogue in the Rabbinic Prism (Studia Judaica; de Gruyter, New York and Berlin, 2012)
• "The Story of a Giant Story - The Winding Way of Og King of Bashan in the Jewish Aggadic Tradition", in:HUCA 73, (2002) pp. 157–190.
• Men’s World: Reading Masculinity in Jewish Stories in a Spiritual Context. Ergon, Würzburg 2009.
• "Two Women Who Were Sporting with Each Other": A Reexamination of the Halakhic Approaches to Lesbianism as a Touchstone for Homosexuality in General, (with Anat Sharbat),HUCA 75, (2004), pp. 37–73
• Men’s Tractate: Rav and the Butcher and other Stories – On Manhood, Love and Authentic Life in Aggadic and Hassidic Stories, Keter, Jerusalem 2002^[3]
• "Blessed art thou who made me a man – and a woman". Archived fromthe original on 2002-06-28. Retrieved2013-09-26.
• Treading toward sanctity. Musings and meditations on close to a century's worth of discussions occasioned by Van Gogh's series of paintings of worn shoes. Was the artist's statement primarily aesthetic, or political, or was it religious? In: Ha-Aretz (19.11.2009)

• The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself

• "Admiel Kosman". The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature.
• https://admiel1kosman.wordpress.com/. The Blog of Admiel Kosman
• https://uni-potsdam.academia.edu/admielkosman Admiel Kosman's page in academia
• Interview with Admiel Kosman, Home Libraries, Vered Lee,Haaretz.
• Homepage of Prof. Admiel Kosman at the University of Potsdam
• Review by E.C. Belly on Kosman`s new book. In: Words without Borders

• 1957 births
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• Bernstein Prize recipients
• Brenner Prize recipients
• Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design alumni
• Israeli people of German-Jewish descent
• Israeli people of Iraqi-Jewish descent
• Educators from Haifa
• Writers from Haifa
• Bar-Ilan University alumni

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