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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Contents |
[edit] Authors, A-J
- Grace Aguilar [2], novelist & poet
- Naomi Alderman [3], novelist, winner of the Orange Award for new writers 2006
- Lisa Appignanesi [4], novelist
- Alain de Botton [5], writer
- Caryl Brahms [1], writer
- Anita Brookner [6], novelist
- Ian Buruma [7], Dutch-born journalist and writer
- Elias Canetti [8], novelist, Nobel Prize (1981) (Bulgarian-born)
- Chapman Cohen [2], writer on secularism
- Jackie Collins [9], novelist
- Alan Coren [3], humorous writer
- Charlotte Dacre [10], novelist and poet
- Isaac D'Israeli [11], writer
- Jenny Diski [12] writer
- Richard Ellmann [4], literary scholar and biographer
- Moris Farhi, writer (Turkish born): TimesAd
- Benjamin Farjeon [5]
- Eleanor Farjeon, daughter of Benjamin Farjeon
- Gilbert Frankau [6], writer
- Neil Gaiman [13], fantasy writer
- Louis Golding [14], novelist
- Lewis Goldsmith, journalist and political writer [7]
- Linda Grant [15], novelist
- Charlotte Haldane [16], feminist writer
- Basil Henriques [17]
- Muriel Gray [18], Author, 'The Tube' presenter.
- Zoë Heller [19], author (Jewish father)
- Noreena Hertz [20], great great granddaughter of Joseph Hertz (Chief Rabbi of the British Empire)
- Howard Jacobson [21], writer & broadcaster
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala[8] novelist and screenwriter
- Gabriel Josipovici, novelist and short story writer (JYB 2005 p215)
[edit] Authors, K-Z
- Judith Kerr [22], children's writer
- Matthew Kneale [23], writer (Jewish mother)
- Arthur Koestler [24], novelist & critic
- Marghanita Laski [25], writer
- Joseph Leftwich Article on the Whitechapel Boys, writer
- Paul Levy, food writer, biographer. Long rabbinical pedigree, vide "Finger Lickin' Good: A Kentucky Childhood," (London 1986)
- George Mikes, Encyclopaedia Judaica vol 6, column 789, Hungarian-born comic writer
- Santa Montefiore [9], author (convert)
- Harold Pinter [26], writer, playwright
- Frederic Raphael [27], screenwriter, novelist & critic
- Michael Rosen [28], novelist, poet & broadcaster
- Bernice Rubens [29], novelist
- Will Self [30], novelist (Jewish mother)
- Muriel Spark, [31], 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.)
- Fredric Warburg, author and publisher
- Stephen Winsten Jewish Quarterly article on the Whitechapel Boys, writer
- Leonard Woolf [32], writer & activist
- Rachel Zadok [33], South African-born novelist
- Israel Zangwill [34], 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."
[edit] Poets
- Dannie Abse [35], poet, brother of Leo Abse and psychoanalyst Wilfred Abse
- Al Alvarez [36], poet
- Ivor Cutler [37], poet, humorist, musician
- Elaine Feinstein [38], poet, writer, biographer
- Rose Fyleman [10], children's writer
- Karen Gershon [39], German-born poet
- Philip Hobsbaum [40], poet
- Jenny Joseph, poet (The Times (London); 23/11/02; Amanda Craig; p. 6)
- Laurence Lerner [41], poet (born South Africa)
- Denise Levertov [42] [43], poet, born in England
- Peter Levi [44], poet (born Jewish; family converted to Catholicism)
- Amy Levy [45], poet & novelist
- Vivian de Sola Pinto [46], poet
- John Rodker, poet and publisher: "Anglo-Jewish poetry from Isaac Rosenberg to Elaine Feinstein" by Peter Lawson; ISBN 0-85303-617-9
- Isaac Rosenberg [47], war poet
- Siegfried Sassoon [48], 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 Silkin [49], poet
- Humbert Wolfe [11], poet and civil servant
[edit] Playwrights
- Peter Barnes [50], playwright
- Ronald Harwood [51], playwright & screenwriter
- Patrick Marber [52], playwright & comedian
- Harold Pinter [53], playwright
- Jack Rosenthal [54], TV playwright
- Peter & Anthony Shaffer [55], playwrights
- Tom Stoppard [56], playwright
- Alfred Sutro [57], playwright
- Arnold Wesker [58], playwright
[edit] Journalists
- Barbara Amiel Daily Mail, 21/12/2001, p13
- "Conrad Black's wife Barbara Amiel, a Jewish writer"
- Lionel Blue, journalist
- Alex Brummer Economic and financial journalist and biographer
- Ian Buruma [59], Dutch-born author and journalist
- John Diamond [60], journalist
- Oliver Finegold [61], journalist
- Jonathan Freedland [62], journalist
- Dominic Lawson [12], journalist
- Nigella Lawson [63], Cookery writer
- Christopher Hitchens http://observer.guardian.co.uk/worldview/story/0,,683899,00.html
- Bernard Levin [64], journalist & broadcaster
- Emily Maitlis [65], TV newscaster & reporter
- Melanie Phillips [66], journalist
- Marjorie Proops [67], agony aunt
- Richard Quest [68], CNN International anchorman
- Kimberly Quinn [69], publisher
- "whose 44-year-old Jewish American-born wife, née Kimberly Solomon turned Kimberly Fortier turned Kimberly Quinn"
- Claire Rayner [70], agony aunt
- Jon Ronson, [71] Journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and radio presenter.
- Jon Sopel, [72] Journalist, presents The Politics Show on BBC ONE and is one of the lead presenters on News 24.
- Jim Rosenthal, TV sports journalist & presenter (The Observer (London); 18/12/05; p. 6)
- Victor Weisz, Vicky [13], cartoonist
- Nicky Woolf, journalist
[edit] References
- JYB = Jewish Year Book
- TimesAd: The Times, 6/7/06 p34: "A Call by Jews in Britain" (advert signed by 300 British Jews)
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ 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"
- ^ [1] "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." Accessed 1 Nov 2006.
- ^ 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"
- ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born Umberto Wolff in Milan of Jewish parentage"
- ^ 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"
[edit] External links
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