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Literature & Poetry
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Nobel laureates in literature, novelists, dramatists, and poets writing in Hebrew, Yiddish, and world languages.
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Franz Kafka
July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924The literary visionary of modern alienation, bureaucratic tyranny, and existential dread, whose surreal masterpieces captured the psychological condition of the 20th century.
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
1903 – 1991Jewish American author (1903–1991)
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Isaac Babel
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Emma Lazarus
1849 – 1887American poet (1849–1887)
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Boris Pasternak
1890 – 1960Russian and Soviet writer (1890–1960)
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Norman Mailer
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Michael Chabon
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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I. L. Peretz
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Jonathan Safran Foer
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Chaim Potok
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Muriel Rukeyser
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Grace Paley
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Shel Silverstein
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Joseph Brodsky
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Delmore Schwartz
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Cynthia Ozick
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Neil Gaiman
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Stan Lee
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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R. L. Stine
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Maurice Sendak
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Harlan Ellison
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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S. Ansky
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Abraham Cahan
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Will Eisner
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Art Spiegelman
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Philip Roth
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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E. L. Doctorow
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Joseph Heller
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Chaim Grade
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Bernard Malamud
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Saul Bellow
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Judy Blume
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Jerry Siegel
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Sholem Aleichem
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Osip Mandelstam
Historical –Pioneering contributor in Literature & Poetry whose work shaped human civilization and Jewish historical heritage.
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Joe Shuster
1914 – 1992Comic book artist (1914–1992)
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Isaac Asimov
1920 – 1992American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
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Allen Ginsberg
1926 – 1997American poet and writer (1926–1997)
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Paul Auster
1947 – 2024American writer and film director (1947–2024)
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Nicole Krauss
1974 – LivingAmerican novelist (born 1974)
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