Abraham Kahana (Hebrew: אברהם כהנא, Russian: Авраам Маркович Каган; 19 December 1874 – 20 February 1946) was a Russian-born Biblical scholar, biographer, historian, translator, and librarian.

He was appointed professor at the University of Kiev following the October Revolution, before emigrating to Warsaw with his family in 1922, and the following year to Mandatory Palestine,[1] which he had first visited in 1914.

[2] He settled in Tel Aviv, where he directed the Sha'ar Tzion Library and taught at the Levinsky Seminary [he],[3] before devoting himself entirely to research in 1929.

Abraham Kahana's interests were wide and varied, from biblical exegesis to linguistics and the history of Hasidism.

Kahana was also a frequent contributor to the Hebrew periodicals Ha-Melitz, Ha-Zman, and Ha-Shiloaḥ, and was the editor of the literary reviews in Ha-Dor.