Irving Howe (1920–1993)

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1. 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

2. William Faulkner

   Author of Go Down, Moses, The Hamlet, William Faulkner : Novels 1930-1935 : As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Pylon (Library of America)

3. Simon Noveck

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

4. Philip Goodman

   Author of The Passover anthology, The Sukkot/Simhat Torah Anthology, The Shavuot anthology

5. Nathan Ausubel

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

6. Abba Eban

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

7. Michael Strassfeld

   Author of The First Jewish Catalog; A Do-It-Yourself Kit, The Second Jewish Catalog: Sources and Resources

8. Sholem Aleichem

   Author of Old Country Tales, Favorite Tales of Shalom Aleichem, Stories and satires

9. Isaac Bashevis Singer

   Author of Gimpel the Fool: And Other Stories, In My Father's Court, The certificate

10. Stephen Birmingham

    Author of "Our Crowd": The Great Jewish Families of New York, The Rest of Us: The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews

11. Lucy S. Dawidowicz

    Author of The War Against the Jews: 1933-1945, The Golden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Europe (Modern Jewish History)

12. Edmund Wilson

    Author of To the Finland Station, Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930, Memoirs of Hecate County

13. Elie Wiesel

    Author of Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters, Legends of Our Time, The Jews of silence; a personal report on Soviet Jewry

14. Maurice Samuel

    Author of The World of Sholom Aleichem, Prince of the Ghetto, In praise of Yiddish

15. Leo Rosten

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

16. Sharon Strassfeld

    Author of The Third Jewish Catalog: Creating Community : With a Cumulative Index to All 3 Catalogs, The Jewish Family Book (The Bantam Jewish Bookshelf)

17. Saul Bellow

    Author of More Die of Heartbreak, A Theft, To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account

18. Shmuel Yosef Agnon

    Author of Days of Awe: A Treasury of Jewish Wisdom for Reflection, Repentance, and Renewal on the High Holy Days, Twenty-One Stories, The Bridal Canopy

19. Chaim Grade

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

20. Isaiah Berlin

    Author of Karl Marx: His Life and Environment, The Age of Enlightenment: The 18th Century Philosophers, Personal Impressions