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Jewish Czech writers

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Sigmund Freud
Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
Max Brod
Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884–1968)
Egon Erwin Kisch
Austrian/Czech publicist and writer (1885-1948)
Petr Ginz
Czech victim of Holocaust (1928–1944)
Arnošt Lustig
Czech Jewish author (1926–2011)
Jiří Weiss
Czech director and scriptwriter (1913–2004)
Adolf Burger
Jewish Slovak typographer, memoir writer, and Holocaust survivor (1917–2016)
Ota Pavel
Czech writer and sport publicist (1930–1973)
Jiří Orten
Czech poet (1919-1941)
Johannes Urzidil
German Bohemians writer, poet, historian, and journalist (1896–1970)
Oskar Baum
Czech writer and music educator (1883–1941)
Felix Weltsch
German-speaking Jewish librarian, philosopher, author, editor, publisher and journalist
Franz Carl Weiskopf
German-Czech writer (1900-1955)
Richard Glazar
Czech-bon survivor of Treblinka extermination camp (1920-1997)
David Kaufmann
Austrian academic (1852-1899)
Mordecai Yoffe
Bohemian rabbi (c. 1530 – 1612)
Ludwig Winder
austrian-Czech German-language writer, journalist and literary critic (1889–1946)
Jiří Langer
Jewish Czech poet, translator and writer (1894-1943)
Max Mannheimer
Jewish author, painter and Holocaust survivor (1920–2016)
Hans Janowitz
German screenwriter (1890-1954)
Siegfried Kapper
Bohemian-born Austrian writer of Jewish origin
Camill Hoffmann
Diplomat (1878–1944)
Robert Weltsch
Israeli writer (1891-1982)
Ladislav Grosman
Slovak novelist and screenwriter (1921–1981)
Maxim Biller
German fiction writer
Grete Reiner
German translator (1892–1944)
Herz Homberg
Austrian writer
Ábrahám Lederer
Czech-Hungarian writer (1827-1916)
Hermann Grab
Czech pianist and writer (1903–1949)
Heda Margolius Kovály
Czech writer and translator (1919–2010)
Baruch Placzek
Moravian rabbi