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Philip Hare (Rockville MD)
14th December 2006 |
I don't understand why you list people hs Jewish who have one Jewish parent and who do not consider themselves as Jewish eg. Paul Newman. Surely we have enough Jew do go around that we do not have to artificially enlarge the list. |
Dorota Panek (Hartford, CT)
5th June 2006 |
Many of these Jews were Polish.As a person being born there, I feel as if we shall recongnize all these famous Polish Jews and take a moment of silence to remember all of those killed during the Holocaust.It is a shame of what mankind has lost for itself. Many of those killed were incredible doctors, inventors, politicians,etc. |
JC Jackstein
12th March 2006 |
You should add more to "Literature and Journalism." I have procured a list of famous Jewish authors (taken from Wikipedia.com):
Kathy Acker, writer
Forrest J. Ackerman, science fiction author & fan
Nelson Algren, novelist (son of convert)
Sholem Asch, Yiddish writer
Isaac Asimov, science fiction author
Lawrence Auster, author
Paul Auster, author
Peter S. Beagle, novelist
Saul Bellow, writer, Nobel Prize (1976)
Robert Bloch, science fiction author
Lawrence Block, crime novelist
Rob Bloom, comedy writer
Judy Blume, children's author
Jane Bowles, writer & playwright
David Brin, science fiction author
Michael Chabon, novelist
Harlan Coben, mystery writer
Joshua Cohen, novelist
Anita Diamant, writer
E. L. Doctorow, writer
Harlan Ellison, 'speculative fiction' writer
Jon Fasman, mystery writer
Howard Fast, novelist
Raymond Federman, postmodernist writer
Edna Ferber, author
Jonathan Safran Foer, writer
Betty Friedan, writer
Kinky Friedman, crime writer & singer/songwriter
Alan Furst, spy novel writer
Allen Ginsberg, poet
Natalie Goldberg, author & teacher
William Goldman, novelist & screenwriter
Noah Gordon, author
Paul Gottfried, author
Joe Haldeman, science fiction author
Daniel Handler, writer
Sam Harris, author
Michael H. Hart, author
Joseph Heller, novelist
Richard Herrnstein, author, psychologist
Mark Helprin, novelist
Erica Jong, author
Faye Kellerman, crime novelist; married to Jonathan Kellerman
Jonathan Kellerman, crime novelist
Frederick Kohner, author of Gidget
Cyril M. Kornbluth, science fiction writer
Jerzy Kosinski, writer
Jonathan Kozol, writer & educator
Edward E. Kramer, writer & editor
Judith Krantz, romance writer
James Howard Kunstler, novelist and New Urbanist author
Fran Lebowitz, essayist & humorist
Julius Lester, children's writer (convert)
Jonathan Lethem, novelist
Oscar Levant, author
Ira Levin, author
Michael Levin, author
Laura Lippman, crime novelist
Phillip Lopate, author
Norman Mailer, writer
Bernard Malamud, writer
James McBride, author (Jewish mother)
Walter Mosley, murder-mystery novelist (Jewish mother)
Cynthia Ozick, novelist
Abraham Pais, historian of science
Grace Paley, short story writer & poet
Sara Paretsky, mystery writer
Dorothy Parker, writer, poet & wit (Jewish father)
S. J. Perelman, humorist
Marge Piercy, novelist, poet
Rachel Pollack, science-fiction author
Chaim Potok, author & rabbi
Ayn Rand, writer (atheist)
H.A. & Margret Rey, children's writers
Harold Robbins, author
Henry Roth, writer
Philip Roth, novelist
S.J. Rozan, author
Louis Sachar, children's writer
J. D. Salinger, author (Jewish father)
Budd Schulberg, novelist & screenwriter
Maurice Sendak, children's author
Sidney Sheldon, novelist & screenwriter
Diane Shader Smith, author
Irwin Shaw, novelist
Robert Silverberg, science fiction author
Shel Silverstein, children's writer, poet & musician
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Yiddish writer, Nobel Prize (1978)
Susan Sontag, essayist & novelist
Danielle Steele, romance novelist (Jewish father)
Gertrude Stein, writer, poet & playwright
Joel Stein, columnist
Jacqueline Susann, novelist
Studs Terkel, author & oral historian
Alice B. Toklas, literary figure
Scott Turow, mystery writer
Harry Turtledove, science fiction writer
Leon Uris, novelist
Chris Van Allsburg, children's writer (converted)
Irving Wallace, novelist
Nathanael West, writer
Elie Wiesel, writer & Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize (1986)
Herman Wouk, author
Elizabeth Wurtzel, author
Anzia Yezierska, author |
New Famous Jews
13th December 2005 |
René Goscinny - comics - Asterix, Lucky Luke, Iznogoud
http://www.goscinny.net/
Adam Mickiewicz - Polish writer - family of Frankist (Jewish) descent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Mickiewicz
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński - (Jewish mother and father raised catholic)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Kamil_Baczy%C5%84ski
http://www.midrasz.home.pl/2000/gru/gru00_3.html |
caroline yaffa
4th December 2005 |
what happen to Anne Meara and Danny De Vito |
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