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.
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Authors, A-J
- Grace Aguilar,[1] novelist and poet
- Naomi Alderman,[2] novelist, winner of the 2006 Orange Award for new writers
- Lisa Appignanesi,[3] novelist
- Jillian Becker
- Alain de Botton,[4] writer
- Caryl Brahms,[5] writer
- David Bret, biographer, broadcaster and chansonnier (French-born; Jewish father)
- Anita Brookner,[6] novelist
- Ian Buruma,[7] Dutch-born journalist and writer
- Elias Canetti,[8] novelist, man of letters, 1981 Nobel Prize (Bulgarian-born)
- Chapman Cohen,[9] writer on secularism
- Jackie Collins,[10] novelist
- Alan Coren,[11] humorous writer; his children, Giles and Victoria, are also writers
- Charlotte Dacre,[12] novelist and poet
- Jenny Diski,[13] writer
- Isaac D'Israeli,[14] writer
- Richard Ellmann,[15] literary scholar and biographer
- Moris Farhi, writer (Turkish-born)[16]
- Benjamin Farjeon [17]
- Eleanor Farjeon, daughter of Benjamin Farjeon
- Gilbert Frankau,[18] writer
- Gillian Freeman,[19] novelist and screenwriter
- Stephen Fry,[20] actor and writer
- Neil Gaiman,[21] fantasy writer
- Ralph Glasser, wrote Growing up in the Gorbals
- Louis Golding,[22] novelist
- Lewis Goldsmith, journalist and political writer [23]
- Linda Grant,[24] novelist
- Charlotte Haldane,[25] feminist writer
- Basil Henriques[26]
- Muriel Gray,[27] author, The Tube presenter
- Zoë Heller,[28] author (Jewish father)
- Noreena Hertz,[29] great granddaughter of Joseph Hertz (Chief Rabbi of the British Empire)
- Anthony Horowitz, works include the Alex Rider series
- Eva Ibbotson, known for her award-winning children's books and for her romance novels
- Joseph Jacobs,[30] folklorist
- Howard Jacobson,[31] writer and broadcaster
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala,[32] novelist and screenwriter
- Gabriel Josipovici, novelist and short story writer[33]
Authors, K-Z
- Judith Kerr,[34] children's writer
- Gerald Kersh,[35] novelist
- Matthew Kneale,[36] writer (Jewish mother)
- Arthur Koestler,[37] novelist and critic
- Bernard Kops,[38] poet
- Marghanita Laski,[39] writer
- Stephen Laughton, playwright
- Sir Sidney Lee (1859–1926),[40] biographer and literary scholar
- Joseph Leftwich,[41] writer, one of the Whitechapel Boys
- David Levi,[42] writer on Jewish subjects
- Amy Levy (1861–1889), poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist
- Paul Levy, food writer, biographer; long rabbinical pedigree[43]
- Emanuel Litvinoff,[44] novelist
- Leo Marks,[45] cryptographer and screenwriter
- Anna Maxted, writer, journalist
- George Mikes, Hungarian-born comic writer[46]
- Santa Montefiore,[47] author (convert)
- Simon Sebag Montefiore,[48] writer
- Joseph Pardo (c. 1624 – 1677), hazzan and writer
- Alexander Piatigorsky,[49] writer, philosopher, culture theorist; winner of the 2002 Russian Bely Prize for literature
- Harold Pinter,[50] writer, playwright
- Frederic Raphael,[51] screenwriter, novelist and critic
- Michael Rosen,[52] novelist, poet and broadcaster
- Bernice Rubens,[53] novelist
- Will Self,[54] novelist (Jewish mother)
- J. David Simons, novelist
- Muriel Spark,[55] novelist (Jewish father, possible Jewish mother; converted to Catholicism later in life)[56]
- William Sutcliffe, novelist; New Boy (1986), Are You Experienced? (1997), Whatever Makes You Happy (2008), and The Wall (2013), set in an Israeli colony
- Adam Thirlwell, novelist
- Fredric Warburg, author and publisher
- Stephen Winsten,[57] writer
- Leonard Woolf,[58] writer and activist
- Israel Zangwill, novelist[59]
- Theodore Zeldin, writer
Poets
- Dannie Abse,[60] poet, brother of Leo Abse and psychoanalyst Wilfred Abse
- Al Alvarez,[61] poet
- Ivor Cutler,[62] poet, humorist, musician
- Elaine Feinstein,[63] poet, writer, biographer
- Rose Fyleman,[64] children's writer
- Karen Gershon,[65] German-born poet
- Philip Hobsbaum,[66] poet
- Jenny Joseph, poet[67]
- Amy Levy,[68] poet and novelist
- Vivian de Sola Pinto,[69] poet
- John Rodker, poet and publisher[70]
- Isaac Rosenberg,[71] war poet
- Jon Silkin,[72] poet
- Arthur Waley, poet and prose writer
- Humbert Wolfe,[73] poet and civil servant
Playwrights
- Peter Barnes,[74] playwright
- Steven Berkoff,[75] playwright, actor, author, and theatre director
- Ronald Harwood,[76] playwright and screenwriter
- Tom Kempinski,[77] playwright and screenwriter
- Stephen Laughton,[78] playwright
- Patrick Marber,[79] playwright and comedian
- Harold Pinter,[80] playwright
- Jack Rosenthal,[81] TV playwright
- Peter and Anthony Shaffer,[82] playwrights
- Tom Stoppard.[83] playwright
- Alfred Sutro,[84] playwright
- Arnold Wesker,[85] playwright
Journalists
- Barbara Amiel [86]
- Lionel Blue, rabbi and journalist
- Alex Brummer, economic and financial journalist and biographer
- Ian Buruma,[87] Dutch-born author and journalist
- Giles Coren
- John Diamond,[88] journalist
- Jonathan Freedland,[89] journalist
- Ernest Abraham Hart [90]
- Matthew Kalman, editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Report
- Dominic Lawson,[91] journalist
- Nigella Lawson,[92] cookery writer
- Norman Lebrecht,[93] journalist, writer and critic
- Bernard Levin,[94] journalist and broadcaster
- Emily Maitlis,[95] TV newscaster and reporter
- Robert Peston,[96] BBC Business Editor
- Melanie Phillips,[97] journalist
- Eve Pollard,[98] journalist and newspaper editor
- Marjorie Proops, agony aunt
- Richard Quest,[99] CNN International anchorman
- Kimberly Quinn,[100] publisher
- Claire Rayner,[101] agony aunt
- Jon Ronson,[102] journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and radio presenter
- Jon Sopel,[103] journalist; presents The Politics Show on BBC One; one of the lead presenters on News 24
- Victor Weisz, Vicky,[104] cartoonist
References
- JYB = Jewish Year Book
Footnotes
- ^ http://www.jewishvoices.org/id62.htm
- ^ http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,1713557,00.html
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4176778,00.html
- ^ http://www.alaindebotton.com/reviews/status_observer.htm
- ^ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, Dec. 10, 1982
- ^ http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2001/3435.html
- ^ http://www.campusi.com/isbn_0753809540.htm
- ^ http://switzerland.isyours.com/e/celebrities/bios/165.html
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the elder son of Enoch Cohen, a Jewish confectioner, and his wife, Deborah Barnett"
- ^ http://www.nndb.com/people/362/000024290/
- ^ The Express 15 January 2005; David Robson at large: "a book of pieces by Alan Coren, a Jewish humorous writer"
- ^ http://www.enotes.com/nineteenth-century-criticism/charlotte-dacre
- ^ http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth29
- ^ http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=389&letter=D
- ^ 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"
- ^ The Times, 6/7/06 p34: "A Call by Jews in Britain" (advert signed by 300 British Jews)
- ^ 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"
- ^ http://www.reading.ac.uk/special-collections/collections/sc-freeman.aspx
- ^ http://www.stephenfry.com
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3648663/A-writers-life-Neil-Gaiman.html
- ^ http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9037266/Louis-Golding
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "he was of Portuguese Jewish descent"
- ^ http://www.lindagrant.co.uk/bio/biog.htm
- ^ http://www.spartacus-educational.com/WhaldaneC.htm
- ^ http://members.iinet.net.au/~temdavid/history.html
- ^ http://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst1146.html
- ^ http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0100/heller/interview.html
- ^ http://www.jewishbookweek.com/archive/listbyyear.php?DateFrom=2003-01-01&DateTo=2003-12-31
- ^ http://www.northern.edu/hastingw/jacobs.htm
- ^ http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/1185_howard_jacobson.htm
- ^ Liukkonen, Petri. "Ruth Prawer Jhabvala". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 10 February 2015.
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- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2002_39_mon_02.shtml
- ^ http://harlanellison.com/kersh/biog.htm
- ^ http://www.ajr.org.uk/pastjournal53.htm
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/c/cesarini-koestler.html
- ^ http://www.thejc.com/arts/arts-interviews/59829/interview-bernard-kops
- ^ http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/pages/authors/marghanita_laski.htm
- ^ http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/Book/Cohen/gencul.html
- ^ http://www.jewishquarterly.org/article.asp?articleid=21
- ^ 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"
- ^ "Finger Lickin' Good: A Kentucky Childhood" (London 1986)
- ^ http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/archive/londonsvoices/web/interview.asp?pid=6
- ^ http://www.mishalov.com/Marks.html
- ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica vol 6, column 789
- ^ The Independent Feb 7, 2005; online here Findarticles accessed 11 Dec 2006
- ^ http://www.simonsebagmontefiore.com
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/05/alexander-piatigorsky-obituary
- ^ http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/stage/chi-0510140281oct14,1,6612239.story?coll=chi-ent_theater-hed
- ^ http://www.catbirdpress.com/bookpages/ahs.htm
- ^ http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0141010274,00.html
- ^ http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/497_bernice_rubens.htm
- ^ http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/features/00/11/09/WILL_SELF1.html
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3613439/The-mistress-of-mischief.html
- ^ 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.)
- ^ Jewish Quarterly article on the Whitechapel Boys
- ^ http://www.nybooks.com/articles/10994
- ^ "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."
- ^ http://lidiavianu.esential.ro/dannie_abse.htm
- ^ http://www.quoteopia.com/famous.php?quotesby=alalvarez
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A855218
- ^ http://www.jwn.org.uk/celebrating06.html
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Her father was in the lace trade, and the family were freethinking Jews"
- ^ http://www.fiveleaves.co.uk/jewish-int.html
- ^ http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,11617,1522850,00.html
- ^ The Times (London); 23/11/02; Amanda Craig; p6
- ^ http://www.jewishvoices.org/id63.htm
- ^ http://www.cronaca.com/archives/001641.html
- ^ Anglo-Jewish poetry from Isaac Rosenberg to Elaine Feinstein by Peter Lawson; ISBN 0-85303-617-9
- ^ http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/skc/rosenberg/
- ^ http://www.bookrags.com/Jon_Silkin
- ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born Umberto Wolff in Milan of Jewish parentage"
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1253915,00.html
- ^ http://www.haaretz.com/life/culture/.premium-1.554267
- ^ http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.09.05/faces.html
- ^ http://www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk/neil-mcpherson.php
- ^ http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/season/young-writers-festival-2012
- ^ http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/16/1058035067681.html
- ^ http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/stage/chi-0510140281oct14,1,6612239.story?coll=chi-ent_theater-hed
- ^ http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/R/htmlR/rosenthalja/rosenthalja.htm
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,589481,00.html
- ^ http://www.curtainup.com/stoppard.html
- ^ http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/Book/Cohen/gencul.html
- ^ http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth224
- ^ Daily Mail, 21/12/2001, p13: "Conrad Black's wife Barbara Amiel, a Jewish writer"
- ^ http://www.forward.com/issues/1999/99.06.04/arts.html
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,445498,00.html
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1666626,00.html
- ^ 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"
- ^ http://cowo.culham.ac.uk/assemblies/023s_way.php
- ^ http://www.jewishcomment.com/cgibin/news.cgi?id=11&command=shownews&newsid=269
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1279720,00.html
- ^ http://www.ujia.org/jewish_future/educational/ashdown/
- ^ http://www.thejc.com/articles/robert-peston-the-bbc-reporter-who-means-business
- ^ http://pws.prserv.net/mpjr/mp/sp160202.htm
- ^ https://www.jchron.co.uk/home.aspx?ParentId=m11s18&SecId=18&AId=60824&ATypeId=1
- ^ http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,,1946121,00.html
- ^ http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050312/asp/opinion/story_4483169.asp
- ^ http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/46_interview_with_clair.htm
- ^ http://dir.salon.com/story/people/conv/2002/03/14/ronson/index.html
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/biographies/biogs/news/jonsopel.shtml
- ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Germany of Hungarian Jewish parents"