Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888–1970)

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1. Shmuel Yosef Agnon

   Author of A Book that Was Lost: and Other Stories, Only Yesterday, A Simple Story (Library of Modern Jewish Literature)

2. Philip Goodman

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3. Sholem Aleichem

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4. Amos Oz

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5. Aharon Appelfeld

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6. Simon Noveck

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7. Michael Strassfeld

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8. Maurice Lamm

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9. Israel Joshua Singer

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10. Maurice Samuel

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11. Joseph Telushkin

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12. Elie Wiesel

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13. Meyer Levin

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14. Barbara Cohen

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15. Isaac Bashevis Singer

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16. David Grossman

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17. Nathan Ausubel

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18. David Rosenberg

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19. Leonard Fein

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20. Blu Greenberg

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