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Boris Pasternak
Russian writer (1890–1960)
Nelly Sachs
Jewish German poet and playwright (1891-1970)
Daniel
biblical figure associated to the Book of Daniel
Barnabas
Barnabas (; ; ), born Joseph () or Joses (), was a prominent Christian disciple, identified as an apostle in Acts 14:14. According to Acts 4:36, he was a Cypriot Levite. He undertook missionary journeys as a companion of Paul the Apostle, evangelizing among the "God-fearing" Gentiles who attended synagogues in some of the Hellenized cities of Anatolia. He participated in the Council of Jerusalem ( AD).
Ilya Ehrenburg
Soviet writer, Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist and historian (1891–1967)
Vladimir Gelfand
Russian writer (1923–1983)
Tibor Sekelj
Hungarian author and explorer (1912–1988)
Ernst Toller
German writer, politician and leader of the Munich Soviet Republic (1893-1939)
Albert Cohen
Swiss writer (1895-1981)
Hayim Nahman Bialik
Hebrew poet, author, and editor (1873–1934)
Emil Ludwig
German writer (1881-1948)
Natan Sharansky
Israeli politician (born 1948)
Albert Memmi
French writer of Tunisian-Jewish origin
Itzhak Peretz
Yiddish language author and playwright (1852–1915)
David Albahar
Serbian writer (1948-2023)
Kurt Gerron
German Jewish film actor, director and singer murdered at Auschwitz (1897-1944)
Moacyr Scliar
Brazilian writer (1937–2011)
Amira Hass
Israeli journalist
Avi Shlaim
Israeli-British historian (born 1945)
Zeruya Shalev
Israeli writer
Leo Spitzer
Austrian philologist and literary theorist (1887–1960)
David Bergelson
Russian playwright and writer (1884-1952)
Edgar Hilsenrath
German-Jewish writer (1926-2018)
Aleksandar Tišma
Serbian writer (1924-2003)
Maja Bošković-Stulli
Croatian historian (1922–2012)
Else Ury
German Jewish novelist (1877–1943)
Moshe Shamir
Israeli writer (1921-2004)
Leonid Tsypkin
Soviet writer (1926–1982)
Jon Juaristi
Spanish writer
Der Nister
Soviet writer and translator (1884-1950)
Edmond Amran El Maleh
Moroccan writer (1917–2010)
Lavie Tidhar
Israeli writer
Daniel Katz
Finnish writer
Rudolf Leonhard
poet and German politician (1889-1953)
Shlomo Venezia
Greek-born Italian Jew, survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp (1923-2012)
Israel Belkind
Russian historian
Jakob Dinesohn
Russian Jewish novelist (1851–1919)
Lionel Davidson
writer (1922–2009)
Efraim Sevela
Russian writer (1928–2010)
Ella Shohat
cultural studies researcher and lecturer in New York, originally from Israel
Edgar Wind
German-born British interdisciplinary art historian
Mauricio Rosencof
former political prisoner, writer, playwright, novelist, poet, and Uruguayan journalist.
Yitskhok Rudashevski
Lithuanian Jewish diarist
Hans Günther Adler
Czech-British novelist and poet, sociologist and historian in German language (1910–1988)
Yoav Gelber
Israeli historian
Pak Noja
Russian-born South Korean historian
Isaac Baer Levinsohn
Ukrainian Jewish writer (1788–1860)
M. H. Maxy
Romanian artist (1895–1971)
Philippe Blasband
Belgian writer, playwright, director and screenwriter
Isaac of Troki
Lithuanian Karaite theologian
Yitzhaq Shami
Hebrew writer (1888–1949)
Genrikh Sapgir
Soviet and Russian writer (1928–1999)
Otto Selz
German psychologist (1881–1943)
Asael Lubotzky
Israeli physician, writer and researcher (ORCID 0000-0002-0460-0084)
Andy Stanton
British children's writer
Robert Assaraf
Moroccan businessman (1936-2018)
Tal Ilan
historian
Sheizaf Rafaeli
Israeli scientist
Patricia Schonstein
South African writer and poet
Jenny Weleminsky
Austrian translator (1882–1957)