List of British Jewish writers
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List of British Jewish writers is a list that includes writers (novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists and others) from the United Kingdom
and its predecessor states who are or were Jewish or of Jewish descent.
Judith Summers
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
and its predecessor states who are or were Jewish or of Jewish descent.
Authors, A-J
- Grace AguilarGrace AguilarGrace Aguilar was an English novelist and writer on Jewish history and religion. She was delicate from childhood, and early showed great interest in history, especially Jewish history...
http://www.jewishvoices.org/id62.htm, novelist & poet - Naomi AldermanNaomi AldermanNaomi Alderman is a British author and novelist.- Biography :Alderman was educated at South Hampstead High School and Lincoln College, Oxford where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. She then went on to study creative writing at the University of East Anglia before becoming a novelist...
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,1713557,00.html, novelist, winner of the Orange Award for new writers 2006 - Lisa AppignanesiLisa AppignanesiLisa Appignanesi is a British writer, novelist, and campaigner for free expression. She is president of the writers’ organization English PEN. Her latest book is All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4176778,00.html, novelist - Jillian BeckerJillian BeckerJillian Becker is a novelist, prize-winning story-writer, critic, journalist, lecturer, best known internationally as a writer, researcher, and authority on the subject of terrorism.-Life:...
- Alain de BottonAlain de BottonAlain de Botton is a Swiss writer, television presenter, and entrepreneur, resident in the UK.His books and television programs discuss various contemporary subjects and themes in a philosophical style, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life. In August 2008, he was a founding member...
http://www.alaindebotton.com/reviews/status_observer.htm, writer - Caryl BrahmsCaryl BrahmsCaryl Brahms, born Doris Caroline Abrahams was an English critic, novelist, and journalist specialising in the theatre and ballet. She also wrote film, radio and television scripts....
, writer - David BretDavid BretDavid Bret is a French-born British author of showbiz biographies. He chiefly writes on the private life of movie stars and singers in a somewhat sensationalist style.-Life:...
biographer, broadcaster & chansonnier (French-born, Jewish father) - Anita BrooknerAnita BrooknerAnita Brookner CBE is an English language novelist and art historian who was born in Herne Hill, a suburb of London.-Early life and education:...
http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2001/3435.html, novelist - Ian BurumaIan BurumaBuruma is a nephew of the English film director John Schlesinger, a series of interviews with whom he published in book form.-Works:*The Japanese Tattoo with Donald Richie ISBN 978-0-8348-0228-5...
http://www.campusi.com/isbn_0753809540.htm, Dutch-born journalist and writer - Elias CanettiElias CanettiElias Canetti was a Bulgarian-born modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer. He wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power".-Life:...
http://switzerland.isyours.com/e/celebrities/bios/165.html, novelist, man of letters, Nobel Prize (1981) (Bulgarian-born) - Chapman CohenChapman CohenChapman Cohen was a leading English atheist and secularist writer and lecturer.-Life:...
, writer on secularism - Jackie CollinsJackie CollinsJacqueline Jill "Jackie" Collins is an English novelist and former actress. She is the younger sister of actress Joan Collins. She has written 28 novels, all of which have appeared on the New York Times bestsellers list. In total, her books have sold over 400 million copies and have been...
http://www.nndb.com/people/362/000024290/, novelist - Alan CorenAlan CorenAlan Coren was an English humorist, writer and satirist who was well known as a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz The News Quiz and a team captain on BBC television's Call My Bluff...
, humorous writer
- His children, GilesGiles CorenGiles Coren is a British food critic, television presenter and novelist. He is known for expressing controversial opinions, and for his television appearances with the comedian Sue Perkins.-Personal:...
and VictoriaVictoria CorenVictoria Elizabeth Coren is a British writer, presenter and champion poker player. Coren writes weekly columns for The Observer and The Guardian newspapers and hosts the BBC Four television quiz show Only Connect....
, are also writers- Charlotte DacreCharlotte DacreCharlotte Dacre was an English author of Gothic novels.Most references to her today are under the name Charlotte Dacre, but she first wrote under the pseudonym Rosa Matilda, and later adopted a second pseudonym to tease and confuse her critics...
http://www.enotes.com/nineteenth-century-criticism/charlotte-dacre, novelist and poet - Isaac D'IsraeliIsaac D'IsraeliIsaac D'Israeli was a British writer, scholar and man of letters. He is best known for his essays, his associations with other men of letters, and for being the father of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli....
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=389&letter=D, writer - Jenny DiskiJenny Diski-External links:***...
http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth29 writer - Richard EllmannRichard EllmannRichard David Ellmann was a prominent American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats...
, literary scholar and biographer - Moris FarhiMoris FarhiMoris Farhi MBE is an author who has been vice-president of International PEN since 2001.-Background:Farhi was born in Ankara, Turkey, in 1935. Farhi received B.A. in Humanities from Robert Academy, Istanbul, in 1954. He came to the UK the same year and trained at The Royal Academy of Dramatic...
, writer (Turkish born): TimesAd - Benjamin FarjeonBenjamin FarjeonBenjamin Leopold Farjeon was a British novelist, playwright, printer and journalist. As an author, he was known for his huge output....
- Eleanor FarjeonEleanor FarjeonEleanor Farjeon was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire. Many of her works had charming illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Some of her correspondence has also been published...
, daughter of Benjamin Farjeon - Gilbert FrankauGilbert FrankauGilbert Frankau was a popular British novelist. He was known also for verse including a number of verse novels, and short stories....
, writer - Stephen FryStephen FryStephen John Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter and film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He first came to attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also...
http://www.stephenfry.com, actor & writer - Neil GaimanNeil GaimanNeil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/.../arts/2005/12/11/bokgaiman.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/12/11/bomain.html, fantasy writer - Ralph GlasserRalph GlasserRalph Glasser was a Scottish psychologist, economist, advisor to developing countries and author of a highly praised autobiographical trilogy.-Early life:...
(Growing up in the Gorbals) - Louis GoldingLouis GoldingLouis Golding was a British writer, very famous in his time especially for his novels, though he is now largely neglected; he wrote also short stories, essays, fantasies, travel books and poetry....
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9037266/Louis-Golding, novelist - Lewis GoldsmithLewis GoldsmithLewis Goldsmith was an Anglo-French publicist of Portuguese-Jewish extraction.-Allied with Napoleon:...
, journalist and political writer - Linda Grant http://www.lindagrant.co.uk/bio/biog.htm, novelist
- Charlotte HaldaneCharlotte HaldaneCharlotte Haldane was a British feminist author. Her second husband was the biologist J.B.S. Haldane.- Biography :...
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WhaldaneC.htm, feminist writer - Basil HenriquesBasil HenriquesSir Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques was a Jewish philanthropist of Portuguese origins, concentrating his work in the East End of London during the first half of the 20th century....
http://members.iinet.net.au/~temdavid/history.html - Muriel GrayMuriel GrayMuriel Gray is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster.-Personal life:Gray is of partly Jewish ancestry...
http://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst1146.html, Author, 'The Tube' presenter. - Zoë HellerZoë HellerZoë Kate Hinde Heller is an English journalist and novelist.-Early life:Heller was born in North London as the youngest of four children of German-Jewish immigrant Lukas Heller, who was a successful screenwriter. Her mother was instrumental in keeping up the Labour Party's "Save London Transport...
http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0100/heller/interview.html, author (Jewish father) - Noreena HertzNoreena HertzProfessor Noreena Hertz is an English economist, author and campaigner.In her 2002 book The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and The Death of Democracy, Hertz warned that unregulated markets, corporate greed, and over-powerful financial institutions would have serious global consequences that...
http://www.jewishbookweek.com/archive/listbyyear.php?DateFrom=2003-01-01&DateTo=2003-12-31, great granddaughter of Joseph Hertz (Chief Rabbi of the British Empire) - Anthony HorowitzAnthony HorowitzAnthony Craig Horowitz is an English novelist and screenwriter. He has written many children's novels, including The Power of Five, Alex Rider and The Diamond Brothers series and has written over fifty books. He has also written extensively for television, adapting many of Agatha Christie's...
, famous works include the Alex RiderAlex RiderAlex Rider is a series of spy novels by British author Anthony Horowitz about a 14-15 year old spy named Alex Rider. The series is aimed primarily at young adults. Nine novels have been published to date, as well as three graphic novels, three short stories and a supplementary book...
series. - Eva IbbotsonEva IbbotsonEva Ibbotson was an Austrian-born British novelist, known for her award-winning children's books as well as her novels for adults - several of which have been successfully reissued for the young adult readership in recent years.-Personal life:Eva Ibbotson was born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner...
, known for her award-winning children's books and for her romance novels. - Joseph JacobsJoseph JacobsJoseph Jacobs was a folklorist, literary critic and historian. His works included contributions to the Jewish Encyclopaedia, translations of European works, and critical editions of early English literature...
http://www.northern.edu/hastingw/jacobs.htm, folklorist - Howard JacobsonHoward JacobsonHoward Jacobson is a Man Booker Prize-winning British Jewish author and journalist. He is best known for writing comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters.-Background:...
http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/1185_howard_jacobson.htm, writer & broadcaster - Ruth Prawer JhabvalaRuth Prawer JhabvalaRuth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE is a Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant...
novelist and screenwriter - Gabriel JosipoviciGabriel JosipoviciGabriel David Josipovici FBA, FRSL is a British novelist, short story writer, critic, literary theorist, and playwright.-Biography:...
, novelist and short story writer (JYB 2005 p215)
- Charlotte Dacre
Authors, K-Z
- Judith KerrJudith KerrJudith Kerr is a German-born British writer and illustrator who has created both enduring picture books such as the Mog series and The Tiger Who Came To Tea and acclaimed novels for older children such as the autobiographical When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit which give a child's-eye view of the...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2002_39_mon_02.shtml, children's writer - Gerald KershGerald KershGerald Kersh was a British writer. Born in 1911, he began to write at the age of 8. After leaving school he worked as, amongst other things, a cinema manager, bodyguard, debt collector, fish & chip cook, travelling salesman, French teacher and all-in-wrestler whilst attempting to 'make it' as a...
http://harlanellison.com/kersh/biog.htm, novelist. - Matthew KnealeMatthew KnealeMatthew Kneale is a British writer, best known for his 2000 novel English Passengers, which won the prestigious Whitbread Book Award and was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He went to school at Latymer Upper School and then studied Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford, and afterwards...
http://www.ajr.org.uk/pastjournal53.htm, writer (Jewish mother) - Arthur KoestlerArthur KoestlerArthur Koestler CBE was a Hungarian author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria...
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/c/cesarini-koestler.html, novelist & critic - Marghanita LaskiMarghanita LaskiMarghanita Laski was an English journalist, radio panellist and novelist: she also wrote literary biography, plays and short stories.- Personal life :...
http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/pages/authors/marghanita_laski.htm, writer - Sir Sidney LeeSidney LeeSir Sidney Lee was an English biographer and critic.He was born Solomon Lazarus Lee at 12 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London and educated at the City of London School and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in modern history in 1882. In the next year he became assistant-editor of the...
(1859–1926) http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/Book/Cohen/gencul.html, biographer and literary scholar - Joseph LeftwichJoseph LeftwichJoseph Leftwich , born Joseph Lefkowitz, was a British-Jewish critic and translator into English of Yiddish literature. He is known particularly for his 1939 anthology The Golden Peacock of Yiddish poetry, and his 1957 biography of Israel Zangwill.He was one of the 'Whitechapel Boys' group of...
http://www.jewishquarterly.org/article.asp?articleid=21, writer, one of the Whitechapel BoysWhitechapel BoysThe Whitechapel Boys is a name given to a loose group of Anglo-Jewish writers and artists of the early 20th century. It is named after Whitechapel, which contained one of London's main Jewish settlements and from which many of its members came... - David LeviDavid Levi (scholar)David Levi was an English-Jewish writer, Hebraist, Jewish apologist, translator, and poet.Levi was born to poor immigrant parents who could not afford to educate him. He worked as a shoemaker, then as a hatter, then as a printer...
, writer on Jewish subjects - Amy LevyAmy Levy- Biography :Levy was born in Clapham, London, the second daughter of Lewis Levy and Isobel Levin. Her Jewish family was mildly observant, but as an adult Levy no longer practised Judaism; she continued to identify with the Jews as a people....
, 1861–1889, poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist. - Paul Levy, food writer, biographer. Long rabbinical pedigree, vide "Finger Lickin' Good: A Kentucky Childhood," (London 1986)
- Emanuel LitvinoffEmanuel LitvinoffEmanuel Litvinoff was a British writer and human rights campaigner, and a well known figure in Anglo-Jewish literature.-Background:...
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/archive/londonsvoices/web/interview.asp?pid=6, novelist. - Leo MarksLeo MarksLeopold Samuel Marks was an English cryptographer, screenwriter and playwright.-Early life:Born the son of an antiquarian bookseller in London, he was first introduced to cryptography when his father showed him a copy of Edgar Allan Poe's story, "The Gold-Bug"...
http://www.mishalov.com/Marks.html, cryptographer & screenwriter - Anna MaxtedAnna MaxtedAnna Maxted is a bestselling author based in North London, England. Born in 1969, she is married to fellow author and journalist Phil Robinson and has three young children. She writes female contemporary fiction which is viewed to be at the high end of the chick lit market.Anna Maxted read English...
, writer, journalist - George MikesGeorge MikesGeorge Mikes was a Hungarian-born British author best known for his humorous commentaries on various countries.- Life :...
, Encyclopaedia JudaicaEncyclopaedia JudaicaThe Encyclopaedia Judaica is a 26-volume English-language encyclopedia of the Jewish people and their faith, Judaism. It covers diverse areas of the Jewish world and civilization, including Jewish history of all eras, culture, holidays, language, scripture, and religious teachings...
vol 6, column 789, HungarianHungaryHungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
-born comic writer - Santa MontefioreSanta MontefioreSanta Montefiore, born Santa Palmer-Tomkinson, is a British author.Santa is the sister of Tara Palmer-Tomkinson. Her parents are Charles Palmer-Tomkinson and Patricia Palmer-Tomkinson, of Anglo-Argentine background. Her father represented his country in skiing at Olympic level...
, author (convert) - Simon Sebag MontefioreSimon Sebag MontefioreSimon Jonathan Sebag Montefiore is a British historian and writer.-Family history:Simon's father, a doctor, is descended from a famous line of wealthy Sephardic Jews who became diplomats and bankers all over Europe...
http://www.www.simonsebagmontefiore.com, writer - Alexander PiatigorskyAlexander PiatigorskyAlexander Piatigorsky was a Russian philosopher, scholar of South Asian philosophy and culture, historian, philologist, semiotician, and writer. Well-versed in the study of language, he knew Sanskrit, Tamil, Pali, Tibetan, German, Russian, French, Italian and English...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/05/alexander-piatigorsky-obituary writer, philosopher, culture theorist Winner of the Russian Bely Prize (2002)for literature - Harold PinterHarold PinterHarold Pinter, CH, CBE was a Nobel Prize–winning English playwright and screenwriter. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party , The Homecoming , and Betrayal , each of which he adapted to...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/stage/chi-0510140281oct14,1,6612239.story?coll=chi-ent_theater-hed, writer, playwright - Frederic RaphaelFrederic RaphaelFrederic Michael Raphael is an American-born, British-educated screenwriter, and also a prolific novelist and journalist.-Life and career:...
http://www.catbirdpress.com/bookpages/ahs.htm, screenwriter, novelist & critic - Michael RosenMichael RosenMichael Wayne Rosen is a broadcaster, children's novelist and poet and the author of 140 books. He was appointed as the fifth Children's Laureate in June 2007, succeeding Jacqueline Wilson, and held this honour until 2009....
http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0141010274,00.html, novelist, poet & broadcaster - Bernice RubensBernice RubensBernice Rubens was a Booker Prize-winning Welsh novelist.-Background:She was of Russian Jewish descent and born in Cardiff, Wales where she attended Cardiff High School. She came from a very musical family, both her brothers becoming well-known classical musicians. She was married to Rudi...
http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/497_bernice_rubens.htm, novelist - Will SelfWill SelfWilliam Woodard "Will" Self is an English novelist and short story writer. His fictional style is known for being satirical, grotesque, and fantastical. He is a prolific commentator on contemporary British life, with regular appearances on Newsnight and Question Time...
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/features/00/11/09/WILL_SELF1.html, novelist (Jewish mother) - Muriel SparkMuriel SparkDame Muriel Spark, DBE was an award-winning Scottish novelist. In 2008 The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945".-Early life:...
, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/03/07/bospark.xml&sSheet=/arts/2004/03/07/bomain.html, novelist (Jewish father, possible Jewish mother; converted to Catholicism later in life)
- Jewish Chronicle 13/3/1998 p1: "Dame Muriel Spark, the author of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and several other celebrated works, is halachically Jewish." (Says her mother was Jewish too.)
Judith Summers
- William SutcliffeWilliam SutcliffeWilliam Sutcliffe is a British novelist.An alumnus of Haberdashers' Aske's School, Sutcliffe started his career with a novel about school life entitled New Boy , which was followed by his best-known work so far, Are You Experienced? , a pre-university gap year novel, in which a group of young...
, Novelist - New Boy(1986), Are You Experienced? (1997), Whatever Makes You Happy (2008) - Adam ThirlwellAdam ThirlwellAdam Thirlwell is a British novelist. He was educated at the independent Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree. He is assistant editor of Areté, an arts tri-quarterly. He also writes a column for Esquire magazine....
, novelist - Fredric WarburgFredric WarburgFredric John Warburg was an English publisher best known for his association with the British author George Orwell...
, author and publisher - Stephen WinstenStephen WinstenStephen Winsten was the name adopted by Samuel Weinstein, one of the 'Whitechapel Boys' group of young Jewish men and future writers in London's East End in the years before World War I . In the First World War he was a conscientious objector, and imprisoned in Bedford and Reading gaols...
Jewish Quarterly article on the Whitechapel Boys, writer - Leonard WoolfLeonard WoolfLeonard Sidney Woolf was an English political theorist, author, publisher and civil servant, and husband of author Virginia Woolf.-Early life:...
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/10994, writer & activist - Israel ZangwillIsrael ZangwillIsrael Zangwill was a British humorist and writer.-Biography:Zangwill was born in London on January 21, 1864 in a family of Jewish immigrants from Czarist Russia, to Moses Zangwill from what is now Latvia and Ellen Hannah Marks Zangwill from what is now Poland. He dedicated his life to championing...
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/zangwill.html, novelist
- "Israel Zangwill, Anglo-Jewish writer and political activist, was probably the best known Jew in the English-speaking world at the start of the twentieth century."
Poets
- Dannie AbseDannie AbseDaniel Abse, better known as Dannie Abse , is a Welsh poet.-Early years:Abse was born in Cardiff, Wales to a Jewish family. He is the younger brother of politician and reformer Leo Abse and the eminent psychoanalyst, Wilfred Abse...
http://lidiavianu.esential.ro/dannie_abse.htm, poet, brother of Leo AbseLeo AbseLeopold Abse was a Welsh lawyer, politician and gay rights campaigner. He was a Welsh Labour Member of Parliament for nearly 30 years, and was noted for promoting private member's bills to decriminalise male homosexual relations and liberalise the divorce laws...
and psychoanalyst Wilfred AbseWilfred AbseDavid Wilfred Abse was a Welsh psychiatrist.Abse was born in Cardiff, a brother of the poet Dannie Abse and the politician Leo Abse . An eminent psychoanalyst, Abse spent the greater part of his career in Charlottesville, Virginia where he was a professor of psychiatry at the University of... - Al AlvarezAl AlvarezAl Alvarez is an English poet, writer and critic who publishes under the name A. Alvarez and Al Alvarez....
http://www.quoteopia.com/famous.php?quotesby=alalvarez, poet - Ivor CutlerIvor CutlerIvor Cutler was a Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist. He became known for his regular performances on BBC radio, and in particular his numerous sessions recorded for John Peel's influential radio programme, and later for Andy Kershaw's programme...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A855218, poet, humorist, musician - Elaine FeinsteinElaine FeinsteinElaine Feinstein is a poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator.-Biography:...
http://www.jwn.org.uk/celebrating06.html, poet, writer, biographer - Rose FylemanRose FylemanRose Amy Fyleman was an English writer and poet, noted for her works on the fairy folk, for children. Her poem There are fairies at the bottom of our garden was set to music by English composer Liza Lehmann...
, children's writer - Karen GershonKaren GershonKaren Gershon, born Kaethe Loewenthal was a German-born British writer and poet. She escaped to Britain in December 1938....
http://www.fiveleaves.co.uk/jewish-int.html, German-born poet - Philip HobsbaumPhilip HobsbaumPhilip Dennis Hobsbaum was a British teacher, poet and critic.-Life:Hobsbaum was born into a Polish Jewish family in London, and brought up in Bradford, in Yorkshire. He read English at Downing College, Cambridge, where he was taught and heavily influenced by F. R. Leavis...
http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,11617,1522850,00.html, poet - Jenny JosephJenny Joseph-Life and career:She was born in Birmingham, and with a scholarship, studied English literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford .Her poems were first published when she was at university in the early 1950s...
, poet (The Times (London); 23/11/02; Amanda Craig; p. 6) - Laurence LernerLaurence LernerLaurence Lerner is a South African born British literary critic and poet and novelist. He was born in Cape Town to parents of Lithuanian-Jewish ancestry, and educated at the University of Cape Town and Pembroke College, Cambridge....
http://jewish-books.net/findBy_AuthName/find_Laurence_Lerner.html, poet (born South Africa) - Denise LevertovDenise Levertov-Early life and influences:Levertov was born and grew up in Ilford, Essex.Couzyn, Jeni Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe, p74 Her mother, Beatrice Spooner-Jones Levertoff, came from a small mining village in North Wales...
http://www.nndb.com/people/161/000032065/ http://www.library.gsu.edu/research/resources.asp?ldID=19&guideID=465&resourceID=3#2989, poet, born in England - Peter LeviPeter LeviPeter Chad Tigar Levi, FSA, FRSL, , Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford was a poet, archaeologist, sometime Jesuit priest, travel writer, biographer, academic and prolific reviewer and critic.-Early life and education:Levi was born in Ruislip, Middlesex of parents with Mediterranean...
http://www.llamagraphics.com/Meadow/Books/LightGarden.html, poet (born Jewish; family converted to Catholicism) - Amy LevyAmy Levy- Biography :Levy was born in Clapham, London, the second daughter of Lewis Levy and Isobel Levin. Her Jewish family was mildly observant, but as an adult Levy no longer practised Judaism; she continued to identify with the Jews as a people....
http://www.jewishvoices.org/id63.htm, poet & novelist - Vivian de Sola PintoVivian de Sola PintoVivian de Sola Pinto was a British poet, literary critic and historian. He was a leading scholarly authority on D. H. Lawrence, and appeared for the defence in the 1960 Lady Chatterley's Lover trial....
http://www.cronaca.com/archives/001641.html, poet - John RodkerJohn RodkerJohn Rodker was a British writer, modernist poet, and publisher of some of the major modernist figures. He was born in Manchester into a Jewish immigrant family, who moved to London while he was still young.-Career:...
, poet and publisher - Isaac RosenbergIsaac RosenbergIsaac Rosenberg was an English poet of the First World War who was considered to be one of the greatest of all English war poets...
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/skc/rosenberg/, war poet - Siegfried SassoonSiegfried SassoonSiegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC was an English poet, author and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's...
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/shofar/v021/21.1matalon.html, poet
- "Abstract: "Difference at War" is a comparative study of three Jewish poet-soldiers of the First World War: Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, and U. Z. Grinberg. ... The poetry of each of these Jewish poets was transformed by the War"
- Jon SilkinJon SilkinJon Silkin was a British poet.-Early life:Jon Silkin was born in London, in a Jewish immigrant family and named after Jon Forsyte in The Forsyte Saga, and attended Wycliffe College and Dulwich College During the Second World War he was one of the children evacuated from London ; he remembered that...
http://www.bookrags.com/Jon_Silkin, poet - Arthur WaleyArthur WaleyArthur David Waley CH, CBE was an English orientalist and sinologist.-Life:Waley was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, as Arthur David Schloss, son of the economist David Frederick Schloss...
, poet and prose writer - Humbert WolfeHumbert WolfeHumbert Wolfe CB CBE , was an Italian-born English poet, man of letters and civil servant, from a Jewish family background, his father, Martin Wolff of German descent and his mother, Consuela, née Terraccini, Italian...
, poet and civil servant
- Jon Silkin
Playwrights
- Peter BarnesPeter BarnesPeter Barnes was an English Olivier Award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His most famous work is the play The Ruling Class, which was made into a 1972 film for which Peter O'Toole received an Oscar nomination....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1253915,00.html, playwright - Ronald HarwoodRonald HarwoodSir Ronald Harwood CBE is an author, playwright and screenwriter. He is most noted for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for The Dresser and The Pianist, for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay...
http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.09.05/faces.html, playwright & screenwriter - Tom KempinskiTom KempinskiTom Kempinski is an English playwright and actor. He is best known for his 1980 play Duet for One, which was a major success in London and New York and which has been much revived since. Kempinski also wrote the screenplay for the movie version of Duet for One...
http://www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk/neil-mcpherson.php, playwright & screenwriter - Patrick MarberPatrick MarberPatrick Albert Crispin Marber is an English comedian, playwright, director, puppeteer, actor and screenwriter.-Early life and education:...
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/16/1058035067681.html, playwright & comedian - Harold PinterHarold PinterHarold Pinter, CH, CBE was a Nobel Prize–winning English playwright and screenwriter. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party , The Homecoming , and Betrayal , each of which he adapted to...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/stage/chi-0510140281oct14,1,6612239.story?coll=chi-ent_theater-hed, playwright - Jack RosenthalJack RosenthalJack Morris Rosenthal CBE was an English playwright, who wrote 129 early episodes of the ITV soap opera Coronation Street and over 150 screenplays, including original TV plays, feature films, and adaptations.-Biography:...
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/R/htmlR/rosenthalja/rosenthalja.htm, TV playwright - PeterPeter ShafferSir Peter Levin Shaffer is an English dramatist and playwright, screenwriter and author of numerous award-winning plays, several of which have been filmed.-Early life:...
& Anthony Shaffer http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,589481,00.html, playwrights - Tom StoppardTom StoppardSir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE, FRSL is a British playwright, knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and...
http://www.curtainup.com/stoppard.html, playwright - Alfred SutroAlfred SutroAlfred Sutro OBE was a British author and dramatist.He was a translator and friend of Maeterlinck. Educated at the City of London School and in Brussels, he began his career with a series of translations of Maeterlinck's works, all of which except the dramas he translated from the French...
http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/Book/Cohen/gencul.html, playwright - Arnold WeskerArnold WeskerSir Arnold Wesker is a prolific British dramatist known for his contributions to kitchen sink drama. He is the author of 42 plays, 4 volumes of short stories, 2 volumes of essays, a book on journalism, a children's book, extensive journalism, poetry and other assorted writings...
http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth224, playwright
Journalists
- Barbara AmielBarbara AmielBarbara Joan Estelle Amiel, Baroness Black of Crossharbour is a British-Canadian journalist, writer, and socialite. She is also the wife of former media baron and convicted felon Conrad Black.-Early life:...
- Lionel BlueLionel BlueLionel Blue is a British Reform rabbi, journalist and broadcaster. He was the first British rabbi publicly to declare his homosexuality. Born in the East End of London, he was the son of a master tailor....
, rabbi and journalist - Alex BrummerAlex BrummerAlex Brummer is a veteran economic commentator, working as a British journalist, editor, and author. He has been the City Editor of the Daily Mail since May 2000, where he writes a daily column on economics and finance.He is a regular contributor to the Jewish Chronicle , writing the weekly...
, Economic and financial journalist and biographer - Ian BurumaIan BurumaBuruma is a nephew of the English film director John Schlesinger, a series of interviews with whom he published in book form.-Works:*The Japanese Tattoo with Donald Richie ISBN 978-0-8348-0228-5...
http://www.forward.com/issues/1999/99.06.04/arts.html, Dutch-born author and journalist - John DiamondJohn Diamond (journalist)John Diamond was a British broadcaster and journalist.- Education and training :Diamond was the son of a biochemist and a fashion designer. He grew up in Upper Clapton and Woodford Green, he then attended the City of London School and trained as an English teacher at Trent Park College of...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,445498,00.html, journalist - Jonathan FreedlandJonathan FreedlandJonathan Saul Freedland is a British journalist, who writes a weekly column for The Guardian and a monthly piece for the Jewish Chronicle. He is also a regular contributor to The New York Times and The New York Review of Books, and presents BBC Radio 4’s contemporary history series,...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1666626,00.html, journalist - Ernest Abraham HartErnest Abraham HartErnest Abraham Hart was an English medical journalist.Hart was born in London, the son of a Jewish dentist. He was educated at the City of London school, and became a student at St Georges hospital. In 1856 he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, making a specialty of diseases of the...
- Dominic LawsonDominic LawsonDominic Ralph Campden Lawson is a British journalist.-Background:Educated at Westminster School and then Christ Church, Oxford, he is the elder son of a former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Lawson and socialite Vanessa Salmon, heir to the Lyons Corner House empire, who died of...
, journalist - Nigella LawsonNigella LawsonNigella Lucy Lawson is an English food writer, journalist and broadcaster. Lawson is the daughter of Nigel Lawson, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Vanessa Salmon, whose family owned the J. Lyons and Co. empire...
http://cowo.culham.ac.uk/assemblies/023s_way.php, Cookery writer - Norman LebrechtNorman LebrechtNorman Lebrecht is a British commentator on music and cultural affairs and a novelist. He was a columnist for The Daily Telegraph from 1994 until 2002 and assistant editor of the Evening Standard from 2002 until 2009...
http://www.jewishcomment.com/cgibin/news.cgi?id=11&command=shownews&newsid=269, journalist, writer & critic - Bernard LevinBernard LevinHenry Bernard Levin CBE was an English journalist, author and broadcaster, described by The Times as "the most famous journalist of his day". The son of a poor Jewish family in London, he won a scholarship to the independent school Christ's Hospital and went on to the London School of Economics,...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1279720,00.html, journalist & broadcaster - Emily MaitlisEmily MaitlisEmily Maitlis is a Canadian-born British journalist and newsreader, currently employed by the BBC.-Career:Raised in Sheffield, she was educated at the local King Edward VII School...
http://www.ujia.org/jewish_future/educational/ashdown/, TV newscaster & reporter - Robert PestonRobert PestonRobert Peston is a British journalist. Since February 2006, he has been the Business Editor for BBC News. He became known to a wider public with his reporting of the late-2000s financial crisis, especially with his scoop on the Northern Rock crisis.-Early life and education:Peston is the son of...
http://www.thejc.com/articles/robert-peston-the-bbc-reporter-who-means-business, BBC Business Editor - Melanie PhillipsMelanie PhillipsMelanie Phillips is a British journalist and author. She began her career on the left of the political spectrum, writing for such publications as The Guardian and New Statesman. In the 1990s she moved to the right, and she now writes for the Daily Mail newspaper, covering political and social...
http://pws.prserv.net/mpjr/mp/sp160202.htm, journalist - Eve PollardEve PollardEvelyn "Eve" Pollard, Lady Lloyd, OBE is an English author, journalist and a former editor of several tabloid newspapers.-Career:...
https://www.jchron.co.uk/home.aspx?ParentId=m11s18&SecId=18&AId=60824&ATypeId=1, journalist & newspaper editor - Marjorie ProopsMarjorie ProopsRebecca Marjorie Proops , born Rebecca Marjorie Israel, was probably best known as an agony aunt in the United Kingdom, writing the column Dear Marje for the Daily Mirror newspaper....
agony aunt - Richard QuestRichard QuestRichard Austin Quest is an English journalist and a CNN International anchor and reporter based in London. He anchors Quest Means Business. In addition to anchoring the five-times-weekly business program, Quest hosts the monthly program Business Traveller...
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,,1946121,00.html, CNN International anchorman - Kimberly QuinnKimberly QuinnKimberly Quinn , is an American journalist, commentator and magazine publisher and writer. Latterly the publisher of British conservative news magazine The Spectator....
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050312/asp/opinion/story_4483169.asp, publisher - Claire RaynerClaire RaynerClaire Berenice Rayner OBE was an English nurse, journalist, broadcaster and novelist, best known for her role for many years as an agony aunt.-Early life:...
http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/46_interview_with_clair.htm, agony aunt - Jon RonsonJon RonsonJon Ronson is a Welsh journalist, documentary filmmaker, radio presenter and nonfiction author, whose works include The Men Who Stare At Goats. His journalism and columns have appeared in British publications including The Guardian newspaper, City Life and Time Out magazine...
, http://dir.salon.com/story/people/conv/2002/03/14/ronson/index.html Journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and radio presenter. - Jim RosenthalJim RosenthalJim Rosenthal is a sports presenter on British television.-Early life:Rosenthal grew up in Oxford and attended Josca's Preparatory School before going to Magdalen College School...
, TV sports journalist & presenter (The Observer (London); 18/12/05; p. 6) - Jon SopelJon Sopel (journalist)Jon Sopel is a television presenter and correspondent for the BBC. He was educated at a boys' grammar school in Finchley London, and then at Christ's College; he received an honours degree in politics from Southampton University.-Broadcasting career:Starting his broadcasting career in local radio...
, http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/biographies/biogs/news/jonsopel.shtml Journalist, presents The Politics Show on BBC OneBBC OneBBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
and is one of the lead presenters on News 24. - Mark SteynMark SteynMark Steyn is a Canadian-born writer, conservative-leaning political commentator, and cultural critic. He has written five books, including America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It, a New York Times bestseller...
http://www.marksteyn.com journalist & writer - Victor WeiszVictor WeiszVictor Weisz was a German-British political cartoonist, drawing under the name of Vicky.- Biography :...
, Vicky , cartoonist
See also
- List of Scottish Jews#Arts, literature and music
- Lists of Jews
- List of British Jews