Janice Rebibo

Janice Rebibo was born in 1950 in Brookline

Janice Rose Silverman was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, near Boston, to Henry Silverman and Eve Schiffman. She grew up in a family with 2 daughters.

She studied Hebrew language and literature at Hebrew College in Boston, and also studied at the University of Massachusetts and at Brunswick University in Canada. She learned Hebrew at an ulpan on a kibbutz in the Jordan Valley. She earned a bachelor's degree in 2006 and a master's degree in 2008 at Hebrew College.

Her first Hebrew poem appeared in 1984 in the literary supplement of the newspaper Davar, on the recommendation of poet Haim Gouri. She immigrated to Israel in 1987 and settled in Rehovot. Her first collection, Zara, came out in 1997, and her poems appeared in many Israeli papers and journals.

She translated the poetry of Natan Yonatan into English and edited prose for other writers. Some of her poems were set to music, and she co-wrote the libretto of Here Comes Messiah!, which premiered at Carnegie Hall in 2009. She also served as a senior manager at an institute for the advancement of Hebrew.

Rebibo died of cancer in Boston in 2015. She was buried in Gedera and was survived by a son and a daughter.