Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916)

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1. Isaac Bashevis Singer

   Author of The Collected Stories, When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw: and Other Stories, The Fools of Chelm and Their History
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2. Sholem Aleichem

   Author of Tevye the Dairyman and Other Stories, Old Country Tales, Stories and satires

3. Philip Goodman

   Author of The Passover anthology, The Yom Kippur anthology, The Jewish marriage anthology

4. Elie Wiesel

   Author of Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters, The Oath, A jew today.

5. Irving Howe

   Author of World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made, A Treasury of Yiddish Stories, How We Lived: A Documentary History of Immigrant Jews in America, 1880-1930

6. Nathan Ausubel

   Author of A Treasury of Jewish Folklore, Pictorial History of the Jewish People, A Treasury of Jewish Poetry

7. Shmuel Yosef Agnon

   Author of Only Yesterday, Twenty-One Stories, The Bridal Canopy

8. Sholem Asch

   Author of The Nazarene, East River, Three Cities

9. Simon Noveck

   Author of Contemporary Jewish thought; a reader, Great Jewish personalities in modern times, Great Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. Edited with introductory essays

10. Abba Eban

    Author of Heritage: Civilization and the Jews, Abba Eban: An autobiography, My country;: The story of modern Israel

11. Chaim Grade

    Author of Rabbis and Wives, My mother's Sabbath days : a memoir, The Well, A Novel

12. Israel Joshua Singer

    Author of The Brothers Ashkenazi, FAMILY CARNOVSKY (Schocken classics), East of Eden

13. Maurice Samuel

    Author of Prince of the Ghetto, In praise of Yiddish, Blood accusation: The strange history of the Beiliss case

14. Leo W. Schwarz

    Author of Great Ages and Ideas of the Jewish People, The Jewish caravan : great stories of twenty-five centuries, A Golden Treasury of Jewish Literature

15. Leo Rosten

    Author of The Joys of Yiddish, Hooray for Yiddish, Leo Rosten's Treasury of Jewish Quotations

16. Dina Herman Rosenfeld

    Author of The Very Best Place for a Penny, A Tree Full of Mitzvos

17. Alfred J. Kolatch

    Author of The Jewish Book of Why, The Second Jewish Book of Why, The Jewish Child's First Book of Why

18. Abraham B. Yehoshua

    Author of Mr. Mani (Harvest in Translation), The Lover, A Journey to the End of the Millennium - A Novel of the Middle Ages

19. Meyer Levin

    Author of The Settlers, The harvest

20. Elinor Slater

    Author of Great Jewish Women, Great Jewish Men