120 Notable Jewish Authors
Listed alphabetically
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1887–1970):
One of the most accomplished writers of modern Hebrew fiction; winner of 1966
Nobel Prize in Literature, his image appears on the Israeli 50 shekel bill
- Grace Aguilar (1816–1847):
British writer of Portuguese Marrano descent, best known for her novels Home
Influence and A Mother’s Recompense
- Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916):
Russian author who wrote in Yiddish and promoted Yiddish literature; stories
about Tevye the Milkman became of the basis of the musical Fiddler on the
Roof
- Nelson Algren (1909–1981):
American novelist best known for The Man With the Golden Arm, which
won the 1950 National Book Award; carried on a torrid affair with French author/philosopher
Simone de Beauvoir
- Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000):
Considered by many to be the greatest modern Israeli poet; his family immigrated
from Germany to Jerusalem in 1935
- S. Ansky (1863-1920): Russian
Yiddish author who documented Jewish folklore and myticism; best known for
writing the play The Dybbuk, he also wrote “The Oath,” which became
the anthem of the Bund
- Mary Antin (1881–1949): Russian-American
novelist and progressive activist; best known for her autobiography on the
immigrant experience, The Promised Land
- Hannah Arendt (1906–1975):
German political theorist, best known for The Human Condition; coverage
of the Eichmann Trial for The New Yorker turned into Eichmann in Jerusalem,
in which the phrase “the banality of evil” was coined
- Sholem Asch (1880–1957): Polish-American
Yiddish writer; when his play God of Vengeance was performed on Broadway
in 1923 the entire cast was arrested and successfully prosecuted on obscenity
charges
- Isaac Asimov (1920–1992):
Russian-American science-fiction writer who penned the Foundation,
Galactic Empire, and Robot series; his “Nightfall” was once
voted the best short science-fiction story of all time
- Isaac Babel (1894-1940): Russian
author whose works, such as Red Cavalry, were never published in uncensored
form until after the fall of the Soviet Union
- Hanoch Bartov (1926- ): Israeli
novelist, essayist, and journalist of such works as The Brigade; winner
of the Bialik Prize (1985), the Agnon Prize (2005), and the Yehuda Amichai-ACUM
Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2007)
- Saul Bellow (1915–2005): American
writer, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature; wrote Adventures
of Augie March, Herzog, and Humboldt’s Gift and was the
first novelist to win the National Book Award three times
- Chaim Nachman Bialik (1873-1934):
A pioneering modern Hebrew poet of such pieces as “In the City of Slaughter,”
which was about the Kishinev pogroms; much of his writing was nationalistic
and seen as a key part of the Zionist movement
- Robert Bloch (1917-1994):
American writer, mainly of horror, crime, and science fiction; best known
for the novel Psycho, which became an Alfred Hitchcock film
- Judy Blume (1938– ): American writer best
known for children’s and young adult novels, such as Are You There God?
It’s Me, Margaret; in 2000, received the Library of Congress Living Legends
award in the "Writers and Artists" category
- Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996):
Russian poet who won the 1987 Nobel Prize for Literature; after being expelled
from the U.S.S.R., he moved to the U.S., where he became Poet Laureate in
1991
- Geraldine Brooks (1955– ):
Australian-American author, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2006 for
March; wrote a fictionalized account of the Sarajevo Haggadah published
in 2008, People of the Book
- Abraham Cahan (1860–1951):
Lithuanian-American author of such works as the novel Yekl: A Tale of the
New York Ghetto, which was the basis for the movie Hester Street;
also wrote a Yiddish autobiography, The Education of Abraham Cahan
- Michael Chabon (1963– ): American
author who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001 for The Amazing Adventures
of Kavalier & Clay; in 2007’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union,
Chabon sets his story in Sitka, a fictional Jewish settlement of Holocaust
refugees in Alaska
- Harlan Coben (1962- ): American
mystery and thriller writer best known for his novel Tell No One, which
was turned into a recently released French film; the first writer ever to
receive the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards
- Avigdor Dagan (Viktor Fischl)
(1912-2006): Czech-Israeli writer who wrote such books as Spring and
The Court Jesters in Czech; also known for Czech translations of Psalms
and the Song of Songs
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881):
Before becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, he was the author of
such novels as Sybil and Vivian Grey
- Anita Diamant (1951- ): American
author, much of whose work is on Jewish themes, including best-seller The
Red Tent; founding president of Mayyim Hayyim: Living Waters Community
Mikveh and Education Center, a community-based ritual bath in the Boston area
- E. L. Doctorow (1931- ): American
author whose first novel, The Book of Daniel, was a fictionalized account
of the Rosenberg trial; also wrote Ragtime, Billy Bathgate,
and The March, all of which won National Book Critics Circle Awards
for Fiction
- Ariel Dorfman (1942– ): Chilean
writer, best known for his play Death and the Maiden, his novel Hard
Rain won the Sudamericana Award; having served in Salvador Allende’s government
and forced to leave Chile after Pinochet’s coup, much of his writing revolves
around human rights issues
- David Edelstadt (1866-1892):
Russian-American Yiddish poet; a leading Jewish anarchist, he was one of the
first to write about the exploitation of female labor in his poem “Women Workers,”
which became popular across America, Europe, and Russia
- Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967):
Russian author who wrote the controversial novel The Thaw, which was
criticized for being too dark, thus casting the Soviet Union in a negative
light; he was a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, which sought
to galvanize support for the Soviet Union’s fight against Nazi Germany
- Abraham ibn Ezra (1092/3-1167):
Spanish Medieval poet who wrote in Hebrew, but having come from Muslim Spain
and traveled through North Africa and the Middle East, he stuck to Arabic
poetic forms; also wrote authoritative commentaries on most books of the Bible
- Moses ibn Ezra (c. 1055-1140):
Medieval Spanish poet who produced two major collections in Hebrew, the Tarshish
and the Diwan; most of his sacred poems have become selichot,
penitential verses found in prayer books for the High Holy Days
- Edna Ferber (1885-1968): American
novelist who won the 1925 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for So Big; wrote
Show Boat, which was turned into a groundbreaking musical
- Anne Frank (1929–1945): German
girl whose diary about living in hiding during the Holocaust became the worldwide
bestseller, Diary of a Young Girl; the book found astonishing success
in Japan, where its first edition alone sold over 100,000 copies
- Betty Friedan (1921–2006):
American feminist writer, best known for The Feminine Mystique, which
many credit with starting the “second wave” of feminism, which fought to overcome
de facto, as opposed to legal, inequalities
- Allan Ginsburg (1926-1997):
American poet best known for “Howl”; the central figure of the Beat Generation,
a group of writers who became prominent in the late ‘50s, rejecting mainstream
American culture and experimenting with drugs, sexuality, and Eastern spirituality
- Louise Gluck (1943- ): American
poet who won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection The
Wild Iris; served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 2003-2004 and has received
numerous prestigious awards including the National Book Critics Circle Award
and the Bollingen Prize for lifetime achievement in poetry
- Gluckl of Hameln (1646–1724):
German woman whose Yiddish diaries provide testimony to Jewish life in Germany
in the late 17th and early 18th centuries; noted German-Jewish feminist Bertha
Pappenheim translated the memoirs into German
- Michael Gold (1893-1967):
American author whose fictionalized autobiography Jews Without Money
made him a cultural leader within Communist circles
- Leah Goldberg (1911–1970):
German-Israeli Hebrew poet and children’s author; her children’s books, including
Apartment for Rent, are considered classics of Hebrew children’s literature
- Allegra Goodman (1967- ):
American author best known for novels like Kaaterskill Falls, which
deals with the lingering effects of the Holocaust on different generations
of Jews; many view her Paradise Park as a feminist reimagining of Saul
Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March
- Judah Leib Gordon (1831-1892):
Lithuanian writer of the Jewish Enlightenment; though best known for his poetry,
he published in numerous genres on social issues to advocate for the adoption
of Enlightenment values; for instance, his poem “The Point on Top of the Yod”
focuses on women’s rights
- Chaim Grade (1910–1982): Russian-American
Yiddish writer, best known for his novels The Agunah and The Yeshiva,
which focused on Jewish life in prewar Lithuania, particularly as it was influenced
by the Mussar movement
- Gustaw Herling–Grudzinski
(1919–2000): Polish author, best known for his account of life in the Soviet
gulag in A World Apart; in recent years, numerous collections of his
short stories have been published
- Yehuda Halevi (c. 1075-1141):
Most prolific, and often seen as the greatest, of the Hebrew poets during
the Hebrew Golden Age of Medieval Spain; also wrote the Kuzari, widely
considered one of the finest Jewish philosophical works ever written
- Anthony Hecht (1923-2004):
American poet who won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Hard Hours;
he served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1982-1984 and won the 1983 Bollingen
Prize for lifetime achievement in poetry
- Heinrich Heine (1797-1856):
Leading German romantic poet, much of whose lyric poetry was then set to music;
went on to write numerous works about philosophy, politics, and culture in
Germany
- Joseph Heller (1923–1999):
American satirical novelist and short story writer, best known for Catch–22
about American servicemen during WWII, which was turned into a movie and named
number 7 on Modern Library’s list of the top 100 novels of the 20th
century
- Eva Hoffman (1945– ): Polish-American
writer, best known for her memoirs Lost in Translation; Jewish life
in Eastern Europe before and after the Holocaust are a major focus of her
work, as she was born in 1945 after her parents survived the Holocaust by
hiding out in Ukraine
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927–
): German-British American writer, winner of Booker Prize in 1975 for Heat
and Dust and of two Academy Awards for screenwriting for A Room with
a View and Howards End
- Franz Kafka (1883–1924): Czech
writer of German stories and novels, best known for surrealistic stories such
as The Metamorphosis and novels The Trial, The Castle,
and Amerika
- Alfred Kazin (1915-1998):
American writer and literary critic who focused on the immigrant experience
in early 20th century America in books like A Walker in the City; in
1996, he was awarded the first Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award for
literary criticism
- Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983):
American author and illustrator of children’s literature best known for The
Snowy Day, which received the Caldecott Medal in 1963; the Ezra Jack Keats
Book Award was established in 1985 to recognize new authors and illustrators
of children’s books
- Faye Kellerman (1952- ): American
mystery writer; an Orthodox Jew, she has created a protagonist for most of
her mysteries, Peter Decker, who returns to his Jewish roots after falling
in love with the Orthodox Rina Lazarus during one of his investigations
- Imre Kerté;sz (1929– ): Hungarian
author, Holocaust survivor, best known for Fatelessness which describes
a teenage boy’s experiences in various concentration camps; won the 2002 Nobel
Prize in Literature
- Irena Klepfisz (1941- ): Polish-American
poet born in the Warsaw Ghetto; her use of Yiddish in her poetry, as well
as her translations of female Yiddish poets demonstrate her commitment to
sustaining Yiddish in Jewish cultural life
- Jerzy Kosinski (1933–1991):
Polish-American novelist, best known for his works The Painted Bird,
a fictionalized account of a boy in hiding during the Holocaust, and Being
There, which was turned into an acclaimed movie
- Jonathan Kozol (1936– ): American
non-fiction writer whose Death At an Early Age received the 1968 National
Book Award in Science, Philosophy, and Religion; the focus of his writing,
speaking and non-profit work is on combating inequalities in education
- Esther Kreitman (1891-1954):
Polish-British Yiddish writer who focused on the status of women among Ashkenazi
Jews in such works as Deborah; older sister of Isaac Bashevis Singer,
who called her “the best female Yiddish writer” he knew
- Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006):
American poet whose Selected Poems, 1928-1958 won the Pulitzer Prize
for Poetry, while his collection Passing Through: The Later Poems won
the 1995 National Book Award; served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1974-1976
- Primo Levi (1919–1987): Italian
writer, best known for his work on the Holocaust, such as Survival in Auschwitz
(originally called If This is a Man); after that book’s success, he
went on to write short stories, poetry, and other memoirs including The
Periodic Table
- Ira Levin (1929– ): American
author, most well-known for Rosemary’s Baby, though other novels of
his including A Kiss Before Dying, Deathtrap, The Boys from
Brazil, and The Stepford Wives were also turned into movies
- Bernard-Henri Lé;vy (1948-
): French author who published journalistic and philosophic works, such as
The French Ideology and Who Killed Daniel Pearl?
- Justine Lé;vy (1974– ): French
novelist, whose semiautobiographical Nothing Serious became a sensation,
winning the first Prix Litté;raire Le Vaudeville; daughter of Bernard-Henri
Levy
- Anthony Lewis (1927– ): American
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Gideon’s Trumpet, which
won the 1965 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime book
- Clarice Lispector (1920–1977):
Russian-Brazilian writer, internationally recognized for her novels Near
to the Wild Heart and The Passion According to G.H.; she also published
Portuguese translations of authors such as Agatha Christie, Oscar Wilde, and
Edgar Allen Poe
- Samuel David Luzzatto (1800-1865):
Italian Hebrew poet who also authored numerous authoritative commentaries
on Jewish texts; a member of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement, which
supported the critical investigation of Jewish culture and traditions, even
through scientific methods
- Norman Mailer (1923–2007):
American writer, whose Armies of the Night won the Pulitzer Prize and
the National Book Award in 1969, and whose The Executioner’s Song won
the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1980
- Bernard Malamud (1914–1986):
American writer, winner of National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for 1967’s
The Fixer, which was about anti-Semitism in Tsarist Russia; he also
wrote many short stories, a collection of which, The Magic Barrel,
won the 1959 National Book Award
- James McBride (1957– ): American
author, best known for his memoir The Color of Water about growing
up in a large, poor African American family led by a white, strict, religious
Jewish mother; his Miracle at St. Anna was made into a movie by Spike
Lee in 2008
- Aharon Megged (1920– ): Polish-Israeli
author, winner of the 1974 Bialik Prize for The Evyatar Notebooks: A Novel
and Of Trees and Stones; he has also won the S.Y. Agnon Prize, the
Prime Minister’s Prize, and the Israel Prize for Literature
- Albert Memmi (1920– ): Tunisian–born
French writer, best known for non-fiction The Colonizer and the
Colonized, which had a preface by Sartre;his novels,
including The Pillar of Salt, which had a preface by Camus, are also
highly regarded
- Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786): German author
and philosopher at the center of the Jewish Enlightenment; he followed up
his groundbreaking Bible translation and commentary, the Bi’ur, with
Jerusalem, which argued that no state should interfere with the religion
of its citizens
- Arthur Miller (1915–2005):
American playwright who won the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize for Drama for
his play Death of a Salesman; also wrote The Crucible, All
My Sons, and the novel Focus, which dealt with anti-Semitism
- Franz Molnar (1878–1952):
Hungarian novelist and dramatist, known for The Paul Street Boys, about
two rival gangs in Budapest; his play Liliom was later adapted into
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical Carousel
- Kadya Molodowsky (1894-1975):
Russian author who was a major figure in literary circles in Kiev, Warsaw,
then New York; her poem “God of Mercy” reflected disillusionment after
the Holocaust
- Harry Mulisch (1927– ): Dutch
author, best known for The Assault, which was made into an Oscar-winning
film; awarded the Prize of Dutch Literature for lifetime achievement
- Irene Nemirovsky (1903-1942):
Russian-born French novelist best known for Suite Francaise, two novellas
portraying life in France during the Nazi occupation. The unfinished manuscript
had gone undiscovered for 50 years, until it was published in 2004, becoming
a bestseller
- Joseph Opatoshu (1886-1954):
Polish-American Yiddish writer known for In Polish Woods, a broad historical
novel describing the decline of Hasidism; buried in the Arbeter Ring cemetery
in New York next to Sholem Aleichem and Yehoash
- Amos Oz (1939– ): Israeli
writer, awarded the Israel Prize for Literature in 1998, the Dan David prize
in 2008, and the Goethe and Heinrich Heine Prizes from Germany
- Cynthia Ozick (1928– ): American author
who often writes about American Jewish life, known for such works as The
Shawl, The Cannibal Galaxy, and The Puttermesser Papers;
in 1986, she was the first recipient of the Michael Rea Award for career contributions
to the short story
- Grace Paley (1922– 2007):
American short story writer and poet whose The Collected Stories, released
in 1994, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award;
in 1989, she was named the first official New York State Writer
- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967):
American writer whose best-known story “Big Blonde” was awarded the O. Henry
Award as the best short story of 1929; co-founded the Hollywood Anti-Nazi
League and served as chair of the Joint Anti-Fascist Rescue Committee
- Boris Pasternak (1890-1960):
Russian author of the epic novel Doctor Zhivago, which won the 1958
Nobel Prize in Literature; his poetry, especially the collection My Sister
Life, was also very influential
- I. L. Peretz (1852-1915):
Polish Yiddish author whose “Monish” is considered the first major Yiddish
poem; “Bontsche the Silent,” the story of a modest man who chooses a modest
heavenly reward, is one of his best-known short stories
- Marge Piercy (1936- ): American
author whose collection of poems The Moon is Always Female is considered
a feminist classic; her science-fiction novel Body of Glass won the
Arthur C. Clarke Award
- Robert Pinsky (1940- ): American
author best known for his poetry who served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1997-2000;
also lauded for his translation of The Inferno of Dante, for which
he won an American Academy of Poets Translation Award
- Chaim Potok (1929–2002): American
writer best known for his novels The Chosen and My Name Is Asher
Lev; he served as editor-in-chief of the Jewish Publication Society from
1965-1974
- Marcel Proust (1871–1922):
French writer best known for the semiautobiographical novel In Search of
Lost Time (or Remembrance of Things Past), which was published
in seven parts from 1913 to 1927
- Ayn Rand (1905–1982): Russian-born
American writer best-known for works like Anthem, The Fountainhead,
and Atlas Shrugged; developed a philosophical system called Objectivism,
which advocated that people act solely according to rational self-interest
- Adrienne Rich (1929- ): American
poet who gained prominence with her collection Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law
in 1963, while in 1974, her collection Diving Into the Wreck received
the National Book Award for Poetry
- Mordecai Richler (1931–2001):
Canadian writer best known for The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz,
about Jewish life in Montreal in the ‘30s and ‘40s; he also wrote the Jacob
Two-Two children’s book series
- Harold Robbins (1916–1997):
American best–selling novelist best known for The Carpetbaggers, which
was loosely based on the life of Howard Hughes
- Morris Rosenfeld (1862-1923):
Polish-American Yiddish labor poet, often dubbed the “poet of the ghetto”;
a delegate to the Fourth Zionist Congress in London in 1900
- Leo Rosten (1908-1997): Polish-American
author who wrote The Education of Hyman Kaplan under the pseudonym
Leonard Q. Ross; also known for his guide The Joys of Yiddish and for
Leo Rosten’s Treasury of Jewish Quotations
- Henry Roth (1906–1995): Galician-American
author whose first novel Call It Sleep is considered a masterpiece
of Jewish American literature and a classic about the immigrant experience
- Philip Roth (1933– ): American
novelist who won the National Book Award in 1960 for Goodbye, Columbus
and in 1995 for Sabbath’s Theater, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
for American Pastoral; his The Plot Against America imagines
an alternate history where the U.S. negotiates with Nazi Germany and begins
its own anti-Semitic campaign
- Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980):
American poet best known for her collection The Book of the Dead, which
focused on the illness and deaths of hundreds of West Virginian miners; her
poem "To be a Jew in the Twentieth Century" has been adopted by
the Reform and Reconstructionist movements for their prayer books
- Louis Sachar (1954– ): American
author of children's books who won a National Book Award for Young People’s
Literature and a Newbery Medal for Holes, the only book ever to win
both awards
- Oliver Sacks (1933- ): British
neurologist and author of numerous books about his patients, such as Awakenings,
which was made into a movie; his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for
a Hat was made into an opera
- Carl Sagan (1934-1996): American
author of The Dragons of Eden, winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for
General Non-Fiction and Cosmos, the best-selling science book ever
published in English; wrote science-fiction novel Contact, which was
turned into a movie
- Maurice Sendak (1928– ): American
children's author and illustrator, best known for Where the Wild Things
Are, which won the 1964 Caldecott Medal; he also wrote the stories that
would be brought together in Really Rosie
- Mendele Mocher Sforim (1835/6-1917): Russian
author who began writing in Hebrew, but switched to Yiddish, becoming influential
in the development of modern literature in both languages; wrote folktales
like Fishke the Lame and novels like The Wishing Ring
- Shel Silverstein (1930–1999):
American writer best known for his children’s books such as The Missing
Piece, A Light in the Attic, Lafacdio, The Giving Tree,
and Where the Sidewalk Ends; he also was a songwriter, penning “A Boy
Named Sue,” for which he won a Grammy in 1970, and which was performed by
Johnny Cash
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904–1991):
Polish-American Yiddish writer who won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature;
best known for stories such as The Family Moskat, Enemies, A Love
Story, “Gimpel the Fool,” and Yentl the Yeshiva Boy, which was
made into a movie starring Barbara Streisand
- Susan Sontag (1933-2004):
American writer best known for essays and monographs like On Photography,
which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; also won the 2000 National
Book Award for fiction for her novel In America
- Art Spiegelman (1948- ): American
author best known for the two-part graphic novel about his parents’ Holocaust
experiences Maus, winner of a special 1992 Pulitzer Prize Letters award
- Abraham Sutzkever (1913- ):
Polish Yiddish poet who was a member of the “Young Vilna” group of writers
and artists in the 1930s; he also managed to save manuscripts of over 80 poems
written during the Nazi occupation of Poland, despite being confined to the
Vilna Ghetto and then becoming a partisan fighter
- Rivkah bat Meir Tiktiner (16th
c.): Polish Yiddish writer on Jewish ethics; her treatise Meneket Rivkah
was perhaps the earliest Yiddish work by a woman ever published
- Leon Uris (1924–2003): American
historical novelist, best known for the worldwide bestseller Exodus,
about Jewish history from the late 19th century through the founding
of the state of Israel
- Chris Van Allsburg (1949-
): American author and illustrator of children’s books who won the Caldecott
Medal for Jumanji and The Polar Express, both of which were
turned into movies
- Jakob Wassermann (1873–1934):
German writer, known for his autobiography My Life as German and Jew,
in which he explored the tension between his Jewish and German identities;
his novels, especially The Maurizius Case, were also influential
- Jennifer Weiner (1970- ):
American novelist, all of whose works have Jewish protagonists and focus on
women; after publishing In Her Shoes in 2002, it was made into a film
- Franz Werfel (1890–1945):
Czech writer who wrote such works as The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, which
called the world’s attention to the Armenian genocide at the hands of the
Turks
- Nathanael West (1903–1940):
American writer, best known for The Day of the Locust, based on his
experiences in Hollywood as a screenwriter; Miss Lonelyhearts, often
seen as his masterpiece, was adopted as a film and an opera
- Elie Wiesel (1928– ): Romanian-American
writer who has written dozens of acclaimed books, but is best known for Night,
his Holocaust memoir; he was awarded the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize and the 1985
Congressional Gold Medal
- Herman Wouk (1915- ): American
author who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Caine Mutiny,
which was based on his military experience during WWII; other historical novels
of his were The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, another
tale of WWII including a section on the Holocaust
- Yehoash (1870-1927): Lithuanian-American
Yiddish writer known for his poetry; also translated the Bible, the Koran,
and many works of literature, including Longfellow’s “Hiawatha,” into Yiddish
- A.B. Yehoshua (1936– ): Israeli
author whose most acclaimed novel, Mr. Mani, is a multigenerational
examination of Israel and Jewish identity; won the Bialik Prize and the Israel
Prize for literature
- Anzia Yezierska (1880s-1970):
Russian-American who worked through the issues of her immigrant experience
through her fiction in collections such as Hungry Hearts and Children
of Loneliness and in novels such as Salome of the Tenements and
Bread Givers
- Israel Zangwill (1864–1926):
British writer who wrote the influential novel Children of the Ghetto:
A Study of a Peculiar People; also wrote the play The Melting Pot,
about an immigrant’s wish for America to be a blended society where differences
would fade away
- Stefan Zweig (1881–1942):
Austrian writer best known for his novels such as Beware of Pity and
biographies such as Erasmus of Rotterdam; wrote his autobiography The
World of Yesterday shortly before his death as a tribute to the European
culture he felt was lost
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