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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person A C Jacobs (Arthur C. Jacobs) was a Scottish poet, born in Glasgow in 1937, he died in Madrid in 1994.

Jacobs was Jewish, wrote in Yiddish and English,[1][2] and was a gifted translator of Hebrew.[3][4][5][6]

Jacobs grew up in a traditional Jewish family who were immigrants from Russia.[5] He studied at the University of Glasgow with Philip Hobsbaum and his early work was published in the Leeds magazine Stand by Jon Silkin.[3][5]

Jacobs' poetry is described as exploring questions of nationality and language.[5]

In his obituary, his editor Anthony Rudolf said: "Many of Jacobs's poems celebrate Jewish life or honour Jewish death, sometimes with a tartan tinge" [3] and in a collection of poems highlighted "his complex cultural identity as a Jew in Scotland, as a Scot in England, and as a diaspora Jew in Israel, Italy, Spain and the UK".[7] He variously used his un-Jewish name Arthur, his adopted Hebrew name, Chaim, signing himself as Arthur C. and A. C. Jacobs.[1]

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