Hebrew-language writers

Ze'ev Jabotinsky, MBE (Hebrew: זאב ז'בוטינסקי‎‎ Ze'ev Zhabotinski; born Vladimir Yevgenyevich Zhabotinsky, Russian: Влади́мир Евге́ньевич Жаботи́нский; 18 October 1880, Odessa – 4 August 1940, Hunter, New York), was a Russian Jewish Revisionist Zionist leader, author, poet, orator, soldier and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa.

Isaac Mayer Dick (1807 – 24 January 1893) was a Russian Hebraist and novelist.

Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (Hebrew: שלמה זלמן אוירבך‎‎; July 20, 1910 - February 20, 1995) was a renowned Orthodox Jewish rabbi, posek, and rosh yeshiva of the Kol Torah yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel.

Eliezer Berkovits (8 September 1908, Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary – 20 August 1992, Jerusalem), was a rabbi, theologian, and educator in the tradition of Orthodox Judaism.

Moshe Zalman Feiglin (Hebrew: משה פייגלין‎‎, born 31 July 1962) is an Israeli politician and columnist.

Yitzhak Coren (Hebrew: יצחק קורן‎‎, born 11 March 1911, died 22 June 1994) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai and the Alignment.

Zvi-Gersh Preigerzon (October 26, 1900 – March 15, 1969) was a Ukrainian Jewish author who specialized in historical prose of a historically fictional nature.

Aleksander Ossypovich Zederbaum (born in Zamość, August 27, 1816; died in Saint Petersburg, September 8, 1893) was a Polish-Russian Jewish journalist.

Aaron Zeitlin (1898 in Uvarovichi – 1973 in New York), the son of the famous Jewish writer Hillel Zeitlin and Esther Kunin, authored several books on Yiddish literature, poetry and parapsychology.

Miriam Bernstein-Cohen (Russian: Мария Яковлевна Бернштейн-Коган Hebrew: מרים ברנשטיין-כהן‎‎), 1895-1991, was an Israeli actress, director, poet and translator.

Joseph Rabinowitz, also Rabinovich (23 September 1837 – 17 May 1899) was a member of a Jewish Christian congregation in Russia.

Joseph Ber Soloveitchik (Hebrew: יוסף דב הלוי סולובייצ׳יק‎‎ Yosef Dov ha-Levi Soloveychik; February 27, 1903 – April 9, 1993) was a major American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist and modern Jewish philosopher.

Yitshak Orpaz (Hebrew: יצחק אוורבוך אורפז) (born 1923) was an Israeli writer.

Nachman HaKohen Krochmal (born in Brody, Galicia, on 17 February 1785; died at Ternopil on 31 July 1840) was a Jewish Galician philosopher, theologian, and historian.

Shlomo ben Aderet (Hebrew: שלמה בן אדרת or Solomon son of Aderet) (1235–1310) was a Medieval rabbi, halakhist, and Talmudist.

Oded Yehuda Burla (Hebrew: עודד בורלא‎‎; June 23, 1915 – July 26, 2009) was an Israeli writer, poet, and artist.

Abraham Dob Bär Lebensohn ( Traditional Jewish Lithuanian pronunciation : Avrohom Dov Beyr Leybenzon ) (born in Vilnius, Russian Empire c. 1789/1794; died there November 19, 1878) was a Lithuanian Jewish Hebraist, poet, and grammarian.

Salomon Maimon (/ˈmaɪmɒn/; German: [ˈmaɪmoːn]; Hebrew: שלמה מימון‎‎‎; 1753 – 22 November 1800) was a German-speaking philosopher, born of Jewish parentage in present-day Belarus.

Tzruya (or Tsruya) "Suki" Lahav (Hebrew: צרויה להב‎‎, born 1951) is an Israeli violinist, vocalist, actress, lyricist, screenwriter, and novelist.

Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai (Hebrew: נפתלי הרץ טור-סיני‎‎; born 13 November 1886 – 17 October 1973) was a Bible scholar, author, and linguist instrumental in the revival of the Hebrew language as a modern, spoken language.

Shimon Ben Aharon Agassi (also spelled Simon Aghassi) was a Hakham and Kabbalist in Baghdad.

Yom Tov ben Avraham Asevilli (1260s – 1320s), commonly known by the Hebrew acronym as the Ritva, (Hebrew: ריטב"א‎‎) was a medieval rabbi and Halakhist famous for his commentary on the Talmud.

Amos Bar (Hebrew: עמוס בר‎‎) (October 15, 1931 – March 15, 2011), also known as "Possa", was an Israeli author, teacher, and editor.

Dr. Azila Talit Reisenberger is a distinguished author, the head of the Hebrew Department at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, a champion of Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, and an acting Rabba.

Joseph Bergel or Bergl (2 September 1802, Prossnitz – 1885, Kaposvár) was Hungarian Jewish physician and author.

Isaac Abraham Euchel (Hebrew: יצחק אייכל‎‎; born at Copenhagen, October 17, 1756; died at Berlin, June 14, 1804) was a Hebrew author and founder of the "Haskalah-movement".

Eliezer Dob Liebermann (April 12, 1820-April 15, 1895) was a Russian Hebrew-language writer of Jewish origin.

Ephraim Deinard (1846–1930) was one of the greatest Hebrew "bookmen" of all time.

Gail Hareven (born 1959 Jerusalem) is an Israeli author.

Menachem Mendel Lefin (also Menahem Mendel Levin) (1749–1826) was an early leader of the Haskalah movement.

Hayyim ben Solomon Tyrer (Hebrew: חיים בן שלמה טירר‎‎) was a Hasidic rabbi and kabbalist.

Yehiel De-Nur, Dinoor or Dinur ('De-Nur' means 'of the fire' in Aramaic), also known by his pen name Ka-Tsetnik 135633, born Yehiel Feiner (16 May 1909 – 17 July 2001), was a Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor, whose books were inspired by his time as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Rabbi Elazar ben Moshe Azikri (Hebrew: אלעזר בן משה אזכרי‎‎‎) (1533–1600) was a Jewish kabbalist, poet and writer, born in Safed to a Sephardic family who had settled in the Land of Israel after the expulsion from Spain.

Eli Amir (Hebrew: אלי עמיר‎‎ Arabic:ايلى عمير) (September 26, 1937) is an Iraqi-born Israeli writer and civil servant.

Hermann Wassertrilling, or Hebrew: Ẓebi-Hirsch ben Nathan Wassertrilling, (Zwi-)Hirsch Wassertrilling (born in Boskowitz, Moravia) was an Austrian Hebraist who flourished in the 19th century.

Herz Homberg (born at Libeň, near Prague, September 1749; died August 24, 1841 at Prague) was an Austrian-Jewish educator and writer.

Yechiel Granatstein (Hebrew: יחיאל גראנאטשטיין‎‎; June 6, 1913 – February 7, 2008) was a Polish-born Jewish author and writer in Yiddish and Hebrew, as well as a partisan fighter in World War II and a Jewish refugee activist following the Holocaust.

Uri Adelman (Hebrew: (אורי אדלמן‎‎, (September 3, 1958 – August 5, 2004), was an Israeli writer, musician, composer, computer expert, and professor at Tel Aviv University.

Miriam Akavia (Matylda Weinfeld, 1927 – 16 January 2015) was a Polish-born Israeli writer and translator, a Holocaust survivor, and the president of the Platform for Jewish-Polish Dialogue.

Moshe Smilansky (Hebrew: משה סמילנסקי‎‎)(February 24, 1874 – October 6, 1953) was a pioneer of the First Aliyah, a Zionist leader who advocated peaceful coexistence with the Arabs in Mandatory Palestine, a farmer, and a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction literary works.

Joseph Pardo (c. 1624 – 1677) was an English hazzan.

Simhah Pinsker (March 17, 1801 – October 29, 1864) (Hebrew: שמחה פינסקר) was a Polish-Jewish scholar and archeologist born at Tarnopol, Galicia.

Yihye Bashiri (Hebrew: יחיא בשירי‎‎), also spelt Yahya al-Bashiri (b. ? – d. 1661), known by his pen-name Avner bar Ner ha-Sharoni, and by the acronym Maharib (moreinu harav yihye bashiri), was a Yemenite Rabbi, professional scrivener and sofer of the Masoretic Text whose works of Hebrew manuscripts now account for many now stored in public libraries across the globe, including the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (Rab.1276; Rab. 36; Rab. 4550), Cambridge University Library (Add.1726, p. 1-a; Add. 3407), the Russian State Library (MS. Günzburg 869) and the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (MS. 764), et al.

Yitzhak Frank (Hebrew:יצחק פרנק) is Talmudist and publicist on Talmud.

Yigal Mossinson (alternate spellings include Igal Mossinsohn and Yigal Mosenzon) (25 December 1917 – 1 May 1994) was an Israeli novelist, playwright, and inventor.

Zachariah Carpi was an Italian-Jewish revolutionary, born at Revere in the second half of the 18th century.

Solomon Ettinger (1802 – 1856) was a 19th-century Yiddish- and Hebrew-language playwright, poet and writer of songs and fables whose emblematic play Serkele has remained a classic of the Yiddish theatre.

Joseph ben Abba Mari ben Joseph ben Jacob Caspi (1280 Arles—1345 Majorca), was a Provençal exegete, grammarian, and philosopher, apparently influenced by Averroës.

Aaron Ben Asher of Karlin (June 6, 1802 – June 23, 1872), known as Rabbi Aaron II of Karlin, was a famous rabbi of the Ḥasidim in northwestern Russia.

Avigdor Hameiri (Hebrew: אביגדור המאירי; September 16, 1890 - April 3, 1970) was an Israeli author.

Avraham Eliyahu Mokotow (22 March 1912 – 7 February 1976), better known as Eliyahu Kitov, was a Rabbi, educator, and community activist.

Amalia Kahana-Carmon (Hebrew: עמליה כהנא-כרמון) (born 1926) is an Israeli author and literary critic.

Rivka Keren (born July 24, 1946) is an Israeli writer.

David ben Naphtali Fränkel or David Hirschel Fränkel (Hebrew: דוד בן נפתלי הירש פרנקל‎‎; c. 1704 – 4 April 1762), was a Jewish German rabbi.

Seligman (Isaac) Baer was a masoretic scholar, and an editor of the Hebrew Bible and of the Jewish liturgy.

Joseph Perl (also Josef Perl; November 10, 1773, Ternopil – October 1, 1839, Ternopil), was an Ashkenazi Jewish educator and writer, a scion of the Haskalah or Jewish Enlightenment.

Joel ben Samuel Sirkis (יואל סירקיש) also known as the Bach (ב"ח)—an abbreviation of his magnum opus, Bayit Chadash—was a prominent Jewish posek and halakhist.

Miriam Markel-Mosessohn (née Wierzbolowska; 1839–1920) was a Russian author and translator who wrote in Hebrew.

Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg (Hebrew: חיים פנחס שיינברג‎‎;‎ 1 October 1910 – 20 March 2012) was a Polish-born, American-raised, Israeli Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva who, from 1965, made his home in the Kiryat Mattersdorf neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel.

Salman Masalha (Arabic: سلمان مصالحة‎‎, Hebrew: סלמאן מצאלחה‎‎; born November 4, 1953) is a poet, writer, essayist and translator.

Yossi Abulafia (Hebrew: יוסי אבולעפיה‎‎; born 1945) is an Israeli writer and illustrator of children's books, as well as a graphic artist, cartoonist, director and screenwriter of animation films.

Avrom Ber Gotlober (January 14, 1811, Starokonstantinov, Volhynia – April 12, 1899, Białystok) was a Jewish writer, poet, playwright, historian, journalist and educator.