- Shmuel Agnon, The
Bridal Canopy; 1966
Nobel
Prize in Literature
- Vasily Aksyonov 1, The
Burn, Generations of Winter,
The Island of Crimea
- Aharon Appelfeld, Badenheim
1939, The Immortal
Bartfuss, The Age of Wonders, The Story of a Life: A Memoir
(2004
Prix Médicis étranger)
- Sholem Asch, The
Nazarine, The Apostle,
Three Cities,
Salvation, East
River
- Isaac Asimov, I,
Robot, Foundation
Trilogy
- Paul Auster, The
New York Trilogy, Leviathan (1993
Prix Médicis étranger)
- Isaac Babel, Red
Cavalry, Odessa Tales
- Giorgio Bassani, The
Garden of the Finzi-Continis
- Vicki Baum, Grand
Hotel
- Saul Bellow, The
Adventures of Augie March,
Henderson the Rain King,
Mr. Sammler's Planet,
Humboldt's Gift
(1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction); 1976
Nobel Prize in Literature
- Henri Bergson, L'Evolution
Créatrice (Creative Evolution);
1927 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Biblical Authors, The
Bible (Jewish and Christian Scriptures)
- Robert Bloch, Psycho
- Kazimierz Brandys, Samson,
Antygona, Troy, Open City, Man Does Not Die
- Hermann Broch, The
Death of Virgil, The
Sleepwalkers
- Max Brod, The
Redemption of Tycho Brahe
- Anita Brookner, Hotel
du Lac (1984 Booker Prize)
- Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé, Masse und Macht (Crowds and Power), Das Gewissen der Worte (The Conscience of Words);
1981 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Miguel de Cervantes 2, Don
Quixote
- Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier
& Clay (2001 Pulitzer
Prize for Fiction)
- Hélène Cixous, Inside (Dedans, 1969
Prix Médicis)
- Albert Cohen, Belle
du Seigneur
- Marcia Davenport, The
Valley of Decision, Easy Side, West Side
- Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil,
Vivian Grey, Coningsby, Tancred
- Alfred Döblin, Berlin
Alexanderplatz
- E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime,
World's Fair, Billy Bathgate, City of God
- Sergei Dovlatov 3, The
Compromise, The Zone
- Maurice Druon 4, The
Accursed Kings (Les Rois Maudits), Les Grandes Familles (1948
Prix Goncourt)
- Ilya Ehrenburg,The
Ninth Wave, The Storm, The
Thaw
- Harlan Ellison, Dangerous
Visions
- Leslie Epstein, King
of the Jews: A Novel of the Holocaust, Goldkorn Tales
- Edna Ferber, So
Big (1925 Pulitzer
Prize for the Novel), Show Boat, Cimarron, Saratoga Trunk
- Lion Feuchtwanger, Jud
Süss (Jew Süss: A Historical Romance), Der jüdische Krieg
(Josephus), Der Tag wird kommen (The
Day Will Come)
- Anne Frank, The
Diary of a Young Girl
- Sigmund Freud, The
Interpretation of Dreams, Civilization and Its Discontents,
Totem and Taboo
- Romain Gary 5, The
Roots of Heaven (1956
Prix Goncourt), The
Life Before Us (1975
Prix Goncourt), Forrest
of Anger, The Dance
of Gengis Cohn
- Eugenia Ginzburg, Journey
Into the Whirlwind
- Natalia Ginzburg 6, All
Our Yesterdays, Voices
in the Evening
- Nadine Gordimer, A
World of Strangers, Burger's Daughter, The
Conservationist (1974
Booker Prize); 1991 Nobel
Prize in Literature
- David Grossman, The
Yellow Wind
- Vasily Grossman, Life
and Fate, Forever
Flowing
- Joseph Heller, Catch-22,
God Knows (1985
Prix Médicis étranger)
- Mark Helprin, Winter's
Tale, A Soldier of
the Great War
- Stefan Heym, The
Crusaders
- Paul Heyse 7, Children
of the World, In Paradise; 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Laura Z. Hobson, Gentleman's
Agreement
- Roger Ikor, La
greffe de printemps, Les
eaux mêlées
(1955 Prix Goncourt)
- Ilya Ilf, The
Twelve Chairs, The Little Golden Calf
- Elfriede Jelinek 8, Women
as Lovers, Wonderful,
Wonderful Times, The
Piano Teacher; 2004
Nobel
Prize in Literature
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, In
Search of Love and Beauty, Heat
and Dust (1975 Booker
Prize)
- Erica Jong, Fear
of Flying, Inventing
Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters
- Franz Kafka, The
Trial, The Castle,
Amerika, The Metamorphosis
- Roger Kahn, The
Boys of Summer
- MacKinlay Kantor 9, Long Remember, Andersonville (1956
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
- Veniamin Kaverin, Two
Captains
- Imre Kertész, Kaddish
for a Child Not Born;
2002 Nobel
Prize in Literature
- Joseph Kessel, Bell
de jour, Les Captifs, Les Coeurs purs (The
Pure of Heart), L'Armée des ombres (Army
of Shadows)
- Danilo Kiš 10, Garden, Ashes, Early Sorrows, Hourglass, The Encyclopedia of the Dead
- Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon, Arrow in the Blue, The Age of Longing, Insight and Outlook, The Sleepwalkers, The Act of Creation
- György Konrád, A
Feast in the Garden, Homecoming
- Jerzy Kosinski, The
Painted Bird, Being
There
- Judith Krantz, Scruples,
Princess Daisy
- Anna Langfus, Les
bagages de sable (The Lost Shore) (1962 Prix Goncourt)
- Stanislaw Lec, Unkempt
Thoughts
- Stanislaw Lem, Summa
Technologiae, Cyberiad,
Solaris
- Carlo Levi, Christ
Stopped at Eboli
- Primo Levi, If
This Is a Man, The
Periodic Table, If
Not Now, When?, The
Drowned and the Saved
- Ira Levin, Rosemary's
Baby, The Stepford
Wives, The Boys from
Brazil
- Jonathan Littell, Les
bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones) (2006 Prix Goncourt)
- Alison Lurie 11, Foreign Affairs (1985
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
- Arnošt Lustig, Night
and Hope, Diamonds in
the Night, The Street
of Lost Brothers, A
Prayer for Catherine Horowitz
- Norman Mailer, The
Naked and the Dead, The
Armies
of the Night (1969
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction), The
Executioner's Song (1980
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
- Bernard Malamud, The
Fixer (1967 Pulitzer
Prize for Fiction), The Natural, The Tenants, The Assistant
- Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope
Against Hope
- Klaus Mann 12, Mephisto,
Der Vulkan
- André Maurois, Les
Silences du Colonel Bramble, À La recherche de Marcel
Proust, Climats,
Le Cercle de famille,
Ariel
- Mendele Moykher Sforim, The
Little Man, The Travels and Adventures of Benjamin the
Third
- Steven Millhauser, Edwin
Mullhouse (1975
Prix Médicis étranger),
Martin Dressler: The Tale of
an
American Dreamer (1997
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
- Patrick Modiano 13, Missing
Person (1978 Prix
Goncourt)
- Michel de Montaigne 14, Essays
- Elsa Morante 15, La
storia, Aracoeli
(1984
Prix Médicis étranger)
- Alberto Moravia 16, Two
Women, The Conformist
- Harry Mulisch 17, The
Assault, The
Discovery of Heaven, The
Procedure
- Irène Némirovsky, David
Golder, Le Bal,
Les mouches d'automne,
Le vin de solitude,
Les chiens et les loups,
Les Biens de ce monde
- Amos Oz, A
Tale of Love and Darkness, My Michael
- Cynthia Ozick, Art
& Ardor, Heir to
the Glimmering World, The
Puttermesser Papers
- Dorothy Parker 18, The
Collected Dorothy Parker
- Boris Pasternak, Doctor
Zhivago; 1958 Nobel
Prize in Literature
- Georges Perec, La
Vie mode d'emploi (Life: A User's Manual) (1978
Prix Médicis)
- I.L. Peretz, Bontshe
the Silent, The Book of Fire: Stories by I.L. Peretz
- Belva Plain, Evergreen
- Chaim Potok, In the Beginning, The Chosen
- Marcel Proust 19,
À la Recherche du
Temps Perdu (In
Search of Lost Time; alternatively translated as Remembrance
of Things Past) (1919 Prix
Goncourt)
- Ellery Queen (pseudonym used
by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee), Ellery
Queen mystery novels, anthologies , and magazine
- Ayn Rand, Atlas
Shrugged, The
Fountainhead, We the
Living
- Mordecai Richler, The
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
- Harold Robbins, The
Carpetbaggers
- Fernando de Rojas, La
Celestina
- Henry Roth, Call
It Sleep
- Joseph Roth, The
Radetzky March, Job
- Philip Roth, Portnoy's
Complaint, Goodbye
Columbus, American
Pastoral (1998 Pulitzer
Prize for Fiction), The Human Stain (2002
Prix Médicis étranger)
- Bernice Rubens, Madame
Sousatzka, The Elected Member (1970 Booker Prize), A Solitary Grief
- Anatoly Rybakov, Children
of the Arbat, Heavy Sand
- Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden (1978
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction)
- J. D. Salinger 20, The
Catcher in the Rye
- Nathalie Sarraute, Tropismes, The Planetarium, The Age of Suspicion, The Golden Fruits, Between Life and Death
- Budd Schulberg, What
Makes Sammy Run?
- Bruno Schulz, The
Street
of Crocodiles, Sanatorium
under the Sign of the Hourglass
- André Schwarz-Bart, Le
Dernier des Justes (The Last of the Just)
(1959 Prix Goncourt)
- Erich Segal, Love
Story
- Anna Seghers, The
Seventh Cross
- Meir Shalev, TheBlue
Mountain, Esau, The
Loves of Judith
- Irwin Shaw, Rich
Man, Poor Man, The
Young Lions
- Sidney Sheldon, The
Other Side of Midnight, Rage of Angels
- Sholem Aleichem, Tevye
the Dairyman and Other Stories, Some
Laughter, Some Tears: Tales From the Old World
and the New
- Isaac Bashevis Singer, The
Magician of Lublin, Enemies:
A Love Story, Satan
in Goray, The Family
Moskat, The Slave;
1978 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Muriel Spark 21, The
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Manès Sperber, Burned
Bramble, All Our
Yesterdays
- Art Spiegelman, Maus
(1992 Pulitzer
Prize for Fiction)
- Danielle Steel 22, Best-selling
romance novels (more than 500 million copies sold)
- Gertrude Stein, The
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
- Milton Steinberg, As
a Driven Leaf
- George Steiner, The
Portage to San Cristóbal of A.H.
- Irving Stone, The
Agony and the Ecstasy, Lust
for Life
- Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Roadside
Picnic, Monday Begins on Saturday
- Jacqueline Susann, Valley
of the Dolls
- Italo Svevo, The
Confessions of Zeno
- Alvin Toffler, Future
Shock
- Yuri Trifonov 23, House on the Enbankment
- Elsa Triolet, A
Fine of 200 Francs (1944
Prix Goncourt)
- Barbara Tuchman, The
Guns of August (1963
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction)
- Scott Turow, Presumed
Innocent, Burden of
Proof, The Laws of
Our Fathers, Reversible
Errors, Ordinary
Heroes
- Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Sonechka
(1996
Prix Médicis étranger),
Kukotsky's Case
- Leon Uris, Exodus,
Mila 18
- Vladimir Voinovich 24, The Life and Extraordinary
Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
- Irving Wallace, The
Prize
- Edward Wallant, The
Pawnbroker, The Human
Season
- Jerome Weidman, I
Can Get It for You Wholesale
- Franz Werfel, The
Forty Days of Musa Dagh, The Song of Bernadette
- Nathanael West, Miss
Lonelyhearts, The Day
of the Locust, A Cool
Million
- Elie Wiesel, Night,
Dawn, The Accident, The
Gates of the Forrest,
A Beggar in Jerusalem
(Le Mendiant de Jérusalem, 1968
Prix Médicis), All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs,
And
the Sea is Never Full: Memoirs; 1986
Nobel Peace Prize
- Herman Wouk, The
Caine Mutiny (1952
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction), The
Winds of War, War and
Remembrance, This is
My God
- A. B. Yehoshua, A
Late Divorce, Five
Seasons, Mr. Mani
- Israel Zangwill, Children
of the Ghetto
- Arnold Zweig, The
Case of Sergeant Grischa
- Stefan Zweig, Amok,
The Royal Game, The World of Yesterday
NOTES
1. Jewish mother (Eugenia
Ginzburg), non-Jewish father.
2. See, e.g., The Cambridge
Companion to Cervantes,
edited by Anthony Cascardi (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
2002, p.4). Writing of Cervantes' parents Rodrigo de Cervantes and
Leonor de Cortinas, Cascardi states in the Introduction: "While the
family may have had some claim to nobility they often found themselves
in financial straits. Moreover, they were almost certainly of converso origin, that is, converts
to Catholicism of Jewish ancestry." While this view is now very
widely held, it has not yet been definitively established.
3. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.
4. Jewish father (Lazare Kessel, the brother of novelist Joseph
Kessel).
5. Although born Roman Kacew to a Jewish couple, Nina and Leyba Kacew
(who separated shortly after his birth), Gary claimed that he "never
knew with any certainty who his father was"; see Romain Gary: The Man Who Sold His Shadow,
by Ralph Schoolcraft (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia,
2002, pp. 1, 48).
6. Jewish father, non-Jewish
mother.
7. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father.
8. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.
9. Born Benjamin MacKinlay
Kantor to a Jewish father and a non-Jewish
mother. See My Father's Voice:
MacKinlay Kantor Long Remembered, by Tim Kantor (McGraw-Hill,
New York, 1988, pp. 28-29, 40, 48-49, 92).
10. Jewish
father, non-Jewish mother.
11. Jewish
father, non-Jewish mother.
12. Jewish
mother, non-Jewish father.
13. Jewish
father, non-Jewish mother.
14.
According to both Donald Frame in Montaigne,
a biography (Hamilton, London, 1965, pp. 16-28) and Cecil
Roth in "The Jewish Ancestry of Michel de Montaigne" [Chapter 14 of Personalities and Events in Jewish History
(Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 1953, pp.
212-225)], Montaigne's maternal grandfather was a Jewish converso; however, Montaigne's
maternal grandmother came from an "Old Christian" (i.e., non-converso) family, as did his father.
15. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father.
16. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.
17. Jewish
mother, non-Jewish father.
18. Jewish
father, non-Jewish mother.
19. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father.
20. Jewish
father, non-Jewish mother; raised Jewish.
21. Jewish
father, non-Jewish mother.
22. Jewish
father, non-Jewish mother.
23. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father.
24. Jewish
mother, non-Jewish father.
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