List of British Jewish writers
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Contents
Authors, A-J
- Grace Aguilar [1], novelist & poet
- Naomi Alderman [2], novelist, winner of the Orange Award for new writers 2006
- Lisa Appignanesi [3], novelist
- Jillian Becker [1]
- Alain de Botton [4], writer
- Caryl Brahms,[2] writer
- David Bret biographer, broadcaster & chansonnier (French-born, Jewish father)
- Anita Brookner [5], novelist
- Ian Buruma [6], Dutch-born journalist and writer
- Elias Canetti [7], novelist, man of letters, Nobel Prize (1981) (Bulgarian-born)
- Chapman Cohen,[3] writer on secularism
- Jackie Collins [8], novelist
- Alan Coren,[4] humorous writer
- Charlotte Dacre [9], novelist and poet
- Isaac D'Israeli [10], writer
- Jenny Diski [11] writer
- Richard Ellmann,[5] literary scholar and biographer
- Moris Farhi, writer (Turkish born): TimesAd
- Benjamin Farjeon [6]
- Eleanor Farjeon, daughter of Benjamin Farjeon
- Gilbert Frankau,[7] writer
- Gillian Freeman [12], novelist & screenwriter
- Stephen Fry [13], actor & writer
- Neil Gaiman [14], fantasy writer
- Ralph Glasser (Growing up in the Gorbals)
- Louis Golding [15], novelist
- Lewis Goldsmith, journalist and political writer [8]
- Linda Grant [16], novelist
- Charlotte Haldane [17], feminist writer
- Basil Henriques [18]
- Muriel Gray [19], Author, 'The Tube' presenter.
- Zoë Heller [20], author (Jewish father)
- Noreena Hertz [21], great granddaughter of Joseph Hertz (Chief Rabbi of the British Empire)
- Anthony Horowitz, famous works include the Alex Rider series.
- Eva Ibbotson, known for her award-winning children's books and for her romance novels.
- Joseph Jacobs [22], folklorist
- Howard Jacobson [23], writer & broadcaster
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala[9] novelist and screenwriter
- Gabriel Josipovici, novelist and short story writer (JYB 2005 p215)
Authors, K-Z
- Judith Kerr [24], children's writer
- Gerald Kersh [25], novelist.
- Matthew Kneale [26], writer (Jewish mother)
- Arthur Koestler [27], novelist & critic
- Bernard Kops [28], poet
- Marghanita Laski [29], writer
- Stephen Laughton, playwright
- Sir Sidney Lee (1859–1926) [30], biographer and literary scholar
- Joseph Leftwich [31], writer, one of the Whitechapel Boys
- David Levi,[10] writer on Jewish subjects
- Amy Levy, 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 Litvinoff [32], novelist.
- Leo Marks [33], cryptographer & screenwriter
- Anna Maxted, writer, journalist
- George Mikes, Encyclopaedia Judaica vol 6, column 789, Hungarian-born comic writer
- Santa Montefiore,[11] author (convert)
- Simon Sebag Montefiore [34], writer
- Joseph Pardo (c. 1624 – 1677), hazzan and writer
- Alexander Piatigorsky [35] writer, philosopher, culture theorist Winner of the Russian Bely Prize (2002)for literature
- Harold Pinter [36], writer, playwright
- Frederic Raphael [37], screenwriter, novelist & critic
- Michael Rosen [38], novelist, poet & broadcaster
- Bernice Rubens [39], novelist
- Will Self [40], novelist (Jewish mother)
- J. David Simons, novelist
- Muriel Spark, [41], 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.)
- William Sutcliffe, Novelist - New Boy(1986); Are You Experienced? (1997); Whatever Makes You Happy (2008); The Wall (2013), set in an Israel colony.
- Adam Thirlwell, novelist
- Fredric Warburg, author and publisher
- Stephen Winsten Jewish Quarterly article on the Whitechapel Boys, writer
- Leonard Woolf [42], writer & activist
- Israel Zangwill [43], 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."
- Theodore Zeldin, writer
Poets
- Dannie Abse [44], poet, brother of Leo Abse and psychoanalyst Wilfred Abse
- Al Alvarez [45], poet
- Ivor Cutler [46], poet, humorist, musician
- Elaine Feinstein [47], poet, writer, biographer
- Rose Fyleman,[12] children's writer
- Karen Gershon [48], German-born poet
- Philip Hobsbaum [49], poet
- Jenny Joseph, poet (The Times (London); 23/11/02; Amanda Craig; p. 6)
- Laurence Lerner [50], poet (born South Africa)
- Amy Levy [51], poet & novelist
- Vivian de Sola Pinto [52], poet
- John Rodker, poet and publisher[13]
- Isaac Rosenberg [53], war poet
- Jon Silkin [54], poet
- Arthur Waley, poet and prose writer
- Humbert Wolfe,[14] poet and civil servant
Playwrights
- Peter Barnes [55], playwright
- Steven Berkoff [56], playwright, actor, author, and theatre director
- Ronald Harwood [57], playwright & screenwriter
- Tom Kempinski [58], playwright & screenwriter
- Stephen Laughton [59], playwright
- Patrick Marber [60], playwright & comedian
- Harold Pinter [61], playwright
- Jack Rosenthal [62], TV playwright
- Peter & Anthony Shaffer [63], playwrights
- Tom Stoppard [64], playwright
- Alfred Sutro [65], playwright
- Arnold Wesker [66], playwright
Journalists
- Barbara Amiel [15]
- Lionel Blue, rabbi and journalist
- Alex Brummer, Economic and financial journalist and biographer
- Ian Buruma [67], Dutch-born author and journalist
- (Giles Coren
- John Diamond [68], journalist
- Jonathan Freedland [69], journalist
- Ernest Abraham Hart [16]
- Matthew Kalman, Editor-in-Chief, The Jerusalem Report
- Dominic Lawson,[17] journalist
- Nigella Lawson [70], Cookery writer
- Norman Lebrecht [71], journalist, writer & critic
- Bernard Levin [72], journalist & broadcaster
- Emily Maitlis [73], TV newscaster & reporter
- Robert Peston [74], BBC Business Editor
- Melanie Phillips [75], journalist
- Eve Pollard [76], journalist & newspaper editor
- Marjorie Proops agony aunt
- Richard Quest [77], CNN International anchorman
- Kimberly Quinn [78], publisher
- Claire Rayner [79], agony aunt
- Jon Ronson, [80] Journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and radio presenter.
- Jon Sopel, [81] Journalist, presents The Politics Show on BBC One and is one of the lead presenters on News 24.
- Victor Weisz, Vicky,[18] cartoonist
References
- JYB = Jewish Year Book
- TimesAd: The Times, 6/7/06 p34: "A Call by Jews in Britain" (advert signed by 300 British Jews)
Footnotes
- ↑ Wikipedia, Who's Who in the World, Encyclopoedia Judaica reviews Observer Times Telegraph New Statesman Spectator
- ↑ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, Dec. 10, 1982
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the elder son of Enoch Cohen, a Jewish confectioner, and his wife, Deborah Barnett"
- ↑ The Express 15 January 2005; David Robson at large: "a book of pieces by Alan Coren, a Jewish humorous writer"
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the second of the three sons (there were no daughters) of James Isaac Ellmann, lawyer, a Jewish Romanian immigrant, and his wife, Jeanette Barsook, an immigrant from Kiev in Ukraine"
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "His parents were Orthodox Jews"
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "In spite of his Jewish descent his sympathies were with the extreme right"
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "he was of Portuguese Jewish descent"
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.. Quote: "Anglo-Indian writer ... Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was born in Cologne, Germany. Her father, a lawyer, was of Polish-Jewish origin and her mother was German-Jewish. Jhabvala attended Jewish segregated school before she emigrated in 1939 with her family to Britain."
- ↑ Dictionary of National Biography: "Jewish controversialist, born in London in 1740, was son of Mordecai Levi, a member of the London congregation of German and Polish Jews"
- ↑ The Independent Feb 7, 2005; online here Findarticles accessed 11 Dec 2006
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Her father was in the lace trade, and the family were freethinking Jews"
- ↑ Anglo-Jewish poetry from Isaac Rosenberg to Elaine Feinstein" by Peter Lawson; ISBN 0-85303-617-9
- ↑ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born Umberto Wolff in Milan of Jewish parentage"
- ↑ Daily Mail, 21/12/2001, p13: "Conrad Black's wife Barbara Amiel, a Jewish writer"
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "as a Jew, and therefore subject to the University Test Acts, Hart decided against university entry"
- ↑ Jewish Chronicle, July 29, 2005 p.24: "Lawson - one of the few Jewish editors of a national paper"
- ↑ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Germany of Hungarian Jewish parents"
