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About Yitzhaq Shami
- Yitzhaq Shami (Hebrew: ???? ????) (August 4, 1888 – March 1949) was a Palestinian Jewish and Israeli writer, who wrote both in Arabic and Hebrew He is one of the earliest modern Hebrew literature writers in Palestine, prior to Israeli statehood.
- His work was unique for his period, since in contrast with the vast majority of Hebrew writers of the period he crafted his art based on characters who were either Arabs or Sephardic Jews, residing in the Ottoman Palestine, and his literary influences were predominantly Arab and Middle Eastern.
- Shami published short stories, one novella, several poems and a number of essays.
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