Abraham Kohen Kaplan (Yiddish: אברהם כהן קאַפלאַן; 25 July 1839 – 2 February 1897) was a Russian Hebrew writer, poet, and translator.
Abraham Kaplan was born into a Jewish family in the town of Wilke, Kovno Governorate.
Having acquired a reputation as a good Hebrew writer at home, he moved to Vienna, where he followed the profession of a publicist until his death.
[1] Kaplan was the author of the following works: Mistere ha-Yehudim (Warsaw, 1865), a Hebrew translation of the first volume of the historical novel Die Geheimnisse der Juden of Hermann Reckendorf [he; de]; Ḥayye Abraham Mapu (Vienna, 1870), a biography of the Hebrew writer Abraham Mapu, with two appendices containing Moshe 'immanu, a poem in praise of Moses Montefiore, and Se'u zimrah, a hymn in honour of the choral society Kol Zimrah of Krakow; Tzarah ve-neḥamah (Vienna, 1872), a Hebrew adaptation from the German novel Die falsche Beschuldigung by Leopold Weisel [de] (Vienna, 1872); Divre yeme ha-Yehudim (Vienna, 1875), a Hebrew translation of the third volume of Heinrich Grätz's Geschichte der Juden [he] (Vienna, 1875); Kelimah ve-belimah (Vienna, 1882), two satirical poems; Moshe Moshe (Vienna, 1884), poem on the celebration of the centenary of Moses Montefiore; and Ha-shemesh (Krakow, 1889), reflections on the sun, its nature and substance.
[2][3] Kaplan frequently contributed to the Hebrew periodicals, and was involved in press polemics on the merit of the works of Smolenskin, which he defended against their critics.