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Heinrich Heine
German poet, writer and literary critic (1797–1856)
Boris Pasternak
Russian writer (1890–1960)

David
David (; , "beloved one") was, originally, leader of the Tribe of Judah who became the first king of the united Kingdom of Israel according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament.

Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)

Nelly Sachs
Jewish German poet and playwright (1891-1970)
Tristan Tzara
Romanian-French poet (1896–1963)
Karl Kraus
Austrian playwright and publicist (1874–1936)
Osip Mandelstam
Russian poet and essayist (1891-1938)
Serge Gainsbourg
French singer, songwriter, composer, writer, actor and director (1928–1991)
Ilya Ehrenburg
Soviet writer, Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist and historian (1891–1967)
Paul Celan
French-Romanian poet and translator (1920–1970)
Solomon ibn Gabirol
11th-century Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher
Julian Tuwim
Polish poet (1894–1953)
Else Lasker-Schüler
Jewish German poet (1869–1945)
Abraham ibn Ezra
12th-century Sephardic rabbi and astrologer

Judah Halevi
Spanish-Jewish philosopher, poet and physician (c.1075–1141)
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
Russian Jewish poet, founder of Revisionist Zionist movement (1880–1940)

Berthold Auerbach
German author (1812–1882)

Samuil Marshak
Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, translator, literary critic, screenwriter, author of popular children's books (1887–1964)

Alejandra Pizarnik
Argentinian poet (1936-1972)

Erich Fried
Austrian writer (1921–1988)

Jacob Bronowski
Polish-born British mathematician (1908–1974)

Giorgio Bassani
Italian writer
Rose Ausländer
Jewish poet from the Bukowina writing in German and English (1901-1988)
Juan Gelman
Argentine poet (1930-2014)

Miklós Radnóti
Hungarian Jewish Christian poet (1909–1944)

Hannah Szenes
Jewish poet and anti-nazi fighter in World War II

Erich Mühsam
German-Jewish anarchist writer (1878–1934)
Leah Goldberg
Israeli poet (1911–2070)

Margarita Aliger
Soviet poet, translator, and journalist (1915–1992)

Naftali Herz Imber
Jewish poet, writer (1856–1909)

Yvan Goll
French-German poet, key figure in German Expressionism and French Surrealism (1891-1950)

Gustave Kahn
French Symbolist poet and art critic (1859–1936)
Catulle Mendès
French poet and man of letters (1841–1909)
Edmond Jabès
French writer and poet (1912–1991)
Marcel Janco
Romanian-born Israel painter and architect (1895-1984)
Mascha Kaléko
German poet (1907-1975)
Bolesław Leśmian
Polish writer (1877–1937)
Vera Inber
Soviet writer
Eduard Bagritsky
Russian/Soviet poet (1895–1934)
Alexander Galich
Soviet musician and writer (1918–1977)
Yuli Daniel
Soviet writer and poet (1925-1988)
Abraham Sutzkever
Russian-born Yiddish poet and Holocaust survivor (1913-2010)
Abba Kovner
Jewish Hebrew poet, writer, and partisan leader (1918–1987)
Mikhail Svetlov
Russian poet (1903–1964)
Milán Füst
Hungarian writer (1888–1967)
Benjamin Fondane
Romanian-French writer (1898–1944)
Bruno Frank
German author, poet, dramatist, and humanist (1887–1945)
Lev Rubinstein
Russian writer and philologist (1947–2024)
Sophia Parnok
Russian writer
Jan Brzechwa
Polish writer (1898-1966)
György Faludy
Hungarian writer, poet, translator (1910–2006)
Moses ibn Ezra
11th/12th-century Andalusian Jewish philosopher, linguist and poet
Dunash ben Labrat
10th-century Moroccan Jewish poet and grammarian
Jakob van Hoddis
German poet (1887–1942)
Albert Ehrenstein
Austrian writer (1886–1950)
Zuzanna Ginczanka
Polish writer
Pia Tafdrup
Danish writer and poet (born 1952)
Elia Levita
Renaissance Hebrew grammarian, scholar and poet (1469–1549)
Mordechai Gebirtig
Yiddish writer (1877–1942)