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Joshua Braff, novelist [17] Abraham Cahan, journalist, author and editor of Yiddish newspaper Jewish Daily Forward[18][19] Hortense Calisher, novelist and president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters [20] Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal, colonial era rabbi who published the first Jewish sermons in America [21] Melvin Jules Bukiet ...
Aurora Levins Morales, poet, and Jewish Voice for Peace advisory board member [22] Howard Nemerov, poet [23] Alicia Ostriker, poet and scholar [24] Charles Reznikoff, poet [25] Adrienne Rich, poet, essayist [26] Morris Rosenfeld, poet [27] Jerome Rothenberg, poet, anthologist, essayist [28] Muriel Rukeyser, poet [29] Delmore Schwartz, poet and ...
Medieval Jewish literature includes not only rabbinic literature but also ethical literature, philosophical literature, mystical literature, various other forms of prose including history and fiction, and various forms of poetry of both religious and secular varieties. [ 1 ] The production of Jewish literature has flowered with the modern ...
Gary Gach. Serge Gainsbourg. Alexander Galich (writer) Moshe David Gaon. Art Garfunkel. Raymond Garlick. Joseph Gart. Mordechai Gebirtig. František Gellner.
Jewish culture. Jewish American literature holds an essential place in the literary history of the United States. It encompasses traditions of writing in English, primarily, as well as in other languages, the most important of which has been Yiddish. While critics and authors generally acknowledge the notion of a distinctive corpus and practice ...
Simon Sebag Montefiore, author and Haaretz journalist; [309] Jerusalem: The Biography was a number one non-fiction Sunday Times bestseller and a global bestseller and won The Jewish Book of the Year Award from the Jewish Book Council; [310] [311] descended from the banker Sir Joseph Sebag-Montefiore, the nephew and heir of the wealthy ...
Shmuel Yosef Agnon. Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון; August 8, 1887 [1] – February 17, 1970) [2] was an Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon (ש"י עגנון ).
In Hungary, Hebrew-language authors included Solomon Lewison of Moor (1789–1822), author of "Melitzat Yeshurun"; Gabriel Südfeld, a poet who was the father of Max Nordau; and the poet Simon Bacher. [7] A notable Jewish author in Romania during the nineteenth century was the physician and writer Julius Barasch. [8]