A C Jacobs

A C Jacobs (Arthur C. Jacobs) was a Scottish poet, born in Glasgow in 1937, he died in Madrid in 1994.

AC Jacobs
Born	(1937-05-30)30 May 1937 Glasgow, Scotland
Died	17 March 1994(1994-03-17) (aged 56) Madrid, Spain
Known for	Scottish poet

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 Lithuania.^[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]