Sachs, Nelly, zahks, NEHL ee (1891-1970), was a German-born Jewish poet and dramatist. She shared the 1966 Nobel Prize in literature with the Israeli writer Shmuel Yosef Agnon. The Nobel judges honored Sachs's "outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength." Most of her poetry deals with persecution and agonies endured by the Jewish people for hundreds of years.