•
Ben Aaronovitch (born 22 February 1964) author and screenwriter; author of the
Rivers of London series of novels; also wrote two
Doctor Who serials in the late 1980s and spin-off novels from
Doctor Who and ''
Blake's 7''; brother of
neo-conservative hawkish journalist
David Aaronovitch; son of
economist Sam Aaronovitch who was senior member of the
Communist Party of Great Britain, and younger brother of
Coronation Street actor
Owen Aaronovitch. •
Tobias Abse historian, author focusing on Jewish history, fascism, Marxism, socialism; lecturer at
Goldsmiths College of the
University of London; has written extensively on rise of the
Fascist Right in Italy prior to World War II; member of Socialist Alliance National Executive, the Alliance for Green Socialism National Committee, the
Socialist History Society committee and the
Revolutionary History editorial board and is regular contributor to
socialist newspapers and magazines such as
Radical Philosophy,
The Weekly Worker, the paper of the
Communist Party of Great Britain,
Marxists Internet Archive; son of the
Labour MP and social reformer
Leo Abse (1917–2008); of
Polish Jewish ancestry. •
Gerhard Adler (14 April 1904 – 23 December 1988) of
German Jewish ancestry, was a major figure in the world of
analytical psychology who had a significant effect on popular culture in England; known for his translation into
English from the original
German and editorial work on the
Collected Works of
Carl Gustav Jung. •
Grace Aguilar n(2 June 1816 – 16 September 1847) was an English novelist, poet and writer on Jewish history and religion. Although she had been writing since childhood, much of her work was published posthumously. Among those are her best known works, the novels
Home Influence and ''A Mother's Recompense''. •
Geoffrey Alderman (born 10 February 1944) historian that specialises in 19th and 20th centuries
Jewish community in England; also a political adviser and journalist; although he is a
Conservative Zionist supporter of
Israel with controversial views on
Palestinians, Alderman has made guest appearances on Iran's
PressTV channel. In 2011, he made four such appearances and donated his appearance fees of £300 to Israel. Of Alderman's dozen or so books, the best-known is
Modern British Jewry (second edition, 1998, OUP). He has also written for the
New Dictionary of National Biography, with special responsibility for post-1800 Jewish entries, and for
The Guardian and
The Jewish Chronicle. He is a columnist for the
Jewish Telegraph. •
Naomi Alderman novelist, winner of the 2006
Orange Award for New Writers; daughter of
Geoffrey Alderman •
Rose Allatini novelist. (Also wrote under the names A.T. Fitzroy, Lucian Wainwright and Eunice Buckley.) •
Simon Amstell (born 29 November 1979),
comedian, scriptwriter,
screenwriter for television and radio and director : wrote and directed the films
Carnage (2017) and
Benjamin (2018). His work on television has included presenting
Popworld and
Never Mind the Buzzcocks; co-wrote episode of
Channel 4 teenage drama
Skins. •
Mick Anglo (born Maurice Anglowitz, 19 June 1916 – 31 October 2011) of
Russian Jewish ancestry, was a
British comic book writer, editor and artist, as well as an author. He is best known for creating the superhero
Marvelman, later known as Miracleman, a character later revived in 1982 in a dark,
post-modern reboot by writer
Alan Moore, with later contributions by
Neil Gaiman. •
Lisa Appignanesi (born 4 January 1946) writer, novelist, campaigner for free expression; was Chair of the Royal Society of Literature; former President of
English PEN; Chair of
Freud Museum; chaired 2017 Booker International Prize; Honorary Fellow of St Benet's Hall, Oxford and visiting professor in the Department of English at
King's College London, and held a
Wellcome Trust; has written for
The New York Review of Books,
The Guardian and
The Observer, as well as making programmes and appearing on the BBC; was Director of Talks and Seminars at the
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London; was made a
Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and was appointed
Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to literature. She became a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Literature in 2015 and became the Chair of the
Royal Society of Literature Council in 2016. •
Neal Ascherson (born 5 October 1932)
journalist and writer; described by
Radio Prague as "one of Britain's leading experts on central and eastern Europe". Ascherson is the author of several books on the history of
Poland and
Ukraine; work has appeared in
The Guardian and
The New York Review of Books. •
Gilad Atzmon (born 9 June 1963) saxophonist for
The Blockheads and
Pink Floyd;
campaigner, author, writer, prolific blogger and
bebop jazz musician of Israeli birth. •
David Baddiel (born 28 May 1964) comedian, op-ed writer, broadcaster and author of over ten books, his latest being the critically acclaimed and well received ''Jews Don't Count'', which is about
anti-Semitism, double standards against, exclusion of, and racial prejudice against Jews in Britain. •
Ivor Baddiel, brother of
David Baddiel scriptwriter and author. He regularly writes for some of the biggest shows on British television including The BAFTAs (
British Academy Film Awards),
The X Factor and The
National Television Awards. Ivor is also the author of nineteen books for both children and adults. • Sir
Michael Balcon (19 May 1896 – 17 October 1977) prolific author and
film producer known for leadership of
Ealing Studios, one of the most important British film studios; known for his leadership, and his guidance of
Alfred Hitchcock;co-founded
Gainsborough Pictures, later working with
Gaumont British and
MGM-British; chairman of the
British Film Institute; grandfather of
Daniel Day-Lewis. •
Michael Balint (; 3 December 1896 – 31 December 1970) Hungarian Jewish
psychoanalyst convert to Christianity who spent most of his adult life in England. He was a proponent of the
Object Relations school and author of numerous academic texts and
monographs on psychiatry; was attached to the
Tavistock Clinic; in 1968 Balint became president of the
British Psychoanalytical Society; his wife was noted
psychoanalyst and author,
Enid Balint, who directed
British Psychoanalytical Society (now Institute of Psychoanalysis). A volume of her papers,
Before I was I: Psychoanalysis and the Imagination, was published in 1993. •
Zygmunt Bauman (19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017) highly influential
Polish Jewish writer, sociologist and philosopher, writing on
postmodern consumerism and
liquid modernity. •
Peter Benenson (born Peter James Henry Solomon; 31 July 1921 – 25 February 2005) British lawyer, writer, pamphleteer,
human rights activist and the founder of human rights group
Amnesty International (AI); accepted the
Pride of Britain Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2001 though he later rejected and denounced
Amnesty International for its criticism of Israel. Benenson was the son of British-born Harold Solomon and Russian-born
Flora Benenson, grandson of Russian financier Grigori Benenson (1860–1939); served in
Intelligence Corps at the Ministry of Information and worked at
Bletchley Park during World War II as a cryptographer. •
Leila Berg (12 November 1917 – 17 April 2012) was an English children's author, editor and play specialist. She was well known as a journalist and a writer on education and
children's rights. Berg was a recipient of the
Eleanor Farjeon Award. •
John Berger,
Jewish father, convert to
Roman Catholicism, (5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) English
art critic, novelist,
painter and
poet. Berger's essay on art criticism
Ways of Seeing, is known as a foundation text employing
deconstruction and
feminist prisms of
epistemology and
ontology, questioning
axiomatic assumptions about
gender,
racial prejudice and
Orientalism, whilst introducing and debating prisms of
Psychological projection,
Reification (Marxism),
False Consciousness,
Commodity fetishism,
Marx's theory of alienation and
essentialism. He was a supporter of the
Palestinian cause, and, focused on
Israel and
apartheid, a member of the Support Committee of the
Russell Tribunal on Palestine. •
Joseph Berke M.D. (17 January 1939 – 11 January 2021) was an American–born
psychotherapist,
author of over ten books and
lecturer; studied at
Columbia College of
Columbia University and
Albert Einstein College of Medicine; moved to
London where he worked with
R. D. Laing when
Philadelphia Association was being established; was resident at
Kingsley Hall; later became an artist and writer; collaborated on a number of projects with Laing, including the
Dialectics of Liberation international conference in London; co-founder of the Arbours Association in London and founder and director of Arbours Crisis Centre (1973–2010) in London. He was the author of many articles and books on
psychological,
social, and
religious themes. •
J. D. Bernal (10 May 1901 – 15 September 1971) was an Irish scientist of
Sephardi ancestry who pioneered the use of
X-ray crystallography in
molecular biology, published on the
history of science, wrote popular books on science and society; was a
communist activist and a member of the
Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB); his book
The World, the Flesh and the Devil called "the most brilliant attempt at scientific prediction ever made" by
Arthur C. Clarke. It is famous for having been the first to propose the so-called
Bernal sphere, a type of
space habitat intended for permanent residence. The second chapter explores radical changes to human bodies and intelligence and the third discusses the impact of these on society. •
Martin Bernal author and leading pioneer in the creation of
Pan-African studies, of
Sephardi ancestry, most famous for his work
Black Athena. •
Drusilla Beyfus (1927–2026) was a British etiquette writer. She was married to the journalist and critic
Milton Shulman. •
Julie Bindel (born 20 July 1962) English
radical feminist writer of Roman Catholic and
Jewish ancestry. •
Lajos Bíró, 22 August 1880 – 9 September 1948, was a Hungarian
Jewish author, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who wrote many films from the early 1920s through the late 1940s. •
Jeremy Black (historian) (born 1955) historian, writer; author of "The Holocaust: History and Memory"; senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the
Foreign Policy Research Institute in
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; author of over 180 books, principally on British politics and international relations; has been described as "the most prolific historical scholar of our age"; He has published on military and political history, including
Warfare in the Western World, 1882–1975 (2001) and
The World in the Twentieth Century (2002); editor of
Archives, journal of the
British Records Association, from 1989 to 2005. has served on the Council of the
British Records Association (1989–2005); the Council of the
Royal Historical Society (1993–1996 and 1997–2000); and the Council of the
List and Index Society (from 1997); has sat on the editorial boards of
History Today,
International History Review,
Journal of Military History,
Media History and the
Journal of the Royal United Service Institution (now the
RUSI Journal); awarded
Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime achievement by the
Society for Military History. •
Anthony Blond (20 March 1928 – 27 February 2008) publisher and author involved with several publishing companies over his career; of
Sephardi ancestry; cousin of
Harold Laski. •
Heston Blumenthal celebrity chef and
author of over five books, was born in
Shepherd's Bush,
London, on 27 May 1966, to a
Jewish father born in
Southern Rhodesia and an English mother who
converted to Judaism. His surname comes from a great-grandfather from
Latvia and means 'flowered valley' (or 'bloom-dale'), in German. •
Vernon Bogdanor (born 16 July 1943); author, academic, scholar, political scientist, historian, and research professor at the Institute for Contemporary British History at
King's College London; emeritus professor of politics and government at the
University of Oxford and an emeritus fellow of
Brasenose College, Oxford; appointed
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the
1998 Birthday Honours for services to
constitutional history; appointed a
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur by
president of France,
Nicolas Sarkozy; was
knighted in
2023 New Year Honours for services to political science. •
David Bohm (20 December 1917 – 27 October 1992) American British scientist and prolific author described as one of the most significant
theoretical physicists of the 20th century, who contributed unorthodox ideas to
quantum theory,
neuropsychology and the
philosophy of mind, of
Hungarian Jewish origin. •
Alain de Botton popular author, broadcaster and YouTube channel entrepreneur, of
Ashkenazi and
Sephardic ancestry. He co-founded
The School of Life. Botton is the son of
Gilbert de Botton and descended from a distinguished
Sephardic Jewish family; among his ancestors were the rabbinical scholar
Abraham de Boton and
Yolande Harmer journalist and Israeli intelligence officer. He is also related to
Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson,
Miel de Botton and
Janet Wolfson de Botton, Trustee of Tate and Chairman of the Council of
Tate Modern and appointed
Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in
2006 and elevated to
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the
2013 Birthday Honours for charitable services to the arts. •
Caryl Brahms writer •
Julius Braunthal (1891–1972) was an
Austrian Jewish historian, magazine
editor, and
political activist; Secretary of the
Socialist International from 1951 to 1956; wrote three volume
History of the International, first published in
German between 1961 and 1971. •
David Bret biographer, broadcaster and chansonnier (French-born; Jewish father) •
Jacob Bronowski (18 January 1908 – 22 August 1974) Polish-British
mathematician,
philosopher,
academic and author of more than eighteen
scholarly books, focusing on
William Blake, magic and
evolution; is best known for developing a
humanistic approach to science, and as the presenter and writer of the 1973
BBC television
documentary series, and accompanying book
The Ascent of Man, which led to his regard as "one of the world's most celebrated intellectuals". •
Anita Brookner (16 July 1928 – 10 March 2016) of
Polish Jewish ancestry,
novelist and
art historian;
Slade Professor of Fine Art at the
University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968; first woman to hold this
visiting professorship; awarded
Booker–McConnell Prize for her novel
Hotel du Lac. •
Sam Bourne novelist pseudonym of Jonathan Freedland. •
Bill Browder (born 23 April 1964) of
Russian Jewish ancestry; author, financier and
political activist;
CEO and co-founder of
Hermitage Capital Management, investment advisor to the Hermitage Fund, which was the largest foreign portfolio investor in
Russia; published ''
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice, focusing on his years spent in Russia. A film adaptation written by William Nicholson was reportedly in the works in 2015. A new book by Browder was published on 12 April 2022: Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder and Surviving Vladimir Putins Wrath''. • Rivkah Brown; editor of Vashti Media and
Novara Media; critic of the concept of the
New antisemitism, critic of
Israel and
Zionism, writes for
The Guardian, Independent, the
London Review of Books,
The Financial Times and New Statesman.
Novara Media (often shortened to Novara) is an
independent,
left-wing alternative media organisation based in the United Kingdom. born to
Roman Catholic father and
Jewish mother (who later converted to Roman Catholicism); was member of School of European Studies at
University of Sussex, before moving to
University of Cambridge, where he holds title of Professor Emeritus of Cultural History and Fellow of
Emmanuel College, Cambridge; celebrated as historian not only of early modern era, but one who emphasises relevance of social and cultural history to modern issues; in 1998, was awarded the
Erasmus Medal of the European Academy, and is an honorary doctorate from the Universities of
Lund,
Copenhagen and
Bucharest. •
Elias Canetti novelist, man of letters, 1981 Nobel Prize (Bulgarian-born); most famous for his work on mass psychology of crowds and anti-
fascism,
Crowds and Power •
David Cesarani (13 November 1956 – 25 October 2015) British historian who specialised in
Jewish history, especially
the Holocaust. He also wrote several biographies, including
Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind (1998). writer on secularism •
Simon Cohen author of "Jews Did Count But for the Wrong Reasons", a critical study dismissing the concept of 'the new anti-Semitism' •
Jackie Collins OBE (4 October 1937 – 19 September 2015) was an English
romance novelist and actress. She wrote 32 novels, all of which appeared on
The New York Times Best Seller list. •
Alan Coren (27 June 1938 – 18 October 2007) was an English
humourist, writer and
satirist who was a regular panellist on the
BBC radio
quiz The News Quiz and a team captain on BBC television's
Call My Bluff. Coren, the author of over twenty books, was also a journalist, and for almost a decade was the editor of
Punch magazine. His children,
Giles and
Victoria, are also writers •
Edwina Currie ('
Cohen'
; born 13 October 1946) writer of six novels, broadcaster and former politician and media personality; from 1998 to 2003, hosted late evening talk show on BBC Radio 5 Live, Late Night Currie
; moved to HTV, presenting Currie Night''; has appeared in string of reality television programmes. •
Charlotte Dacre (1771 or 1772 – 7 November 1825) English author of
Gothic novels; wrote under the pseudonym "Rosa Matilda" to confuse her critics; her work was admired by some of the literary giants of her day and her novels influenced
Percy Bysshe Shelley, who thought highly of her
style and creative skills. •
Ellen Dahrendorf, Baroness Dahrendorf (née Ellen Joan Krug), author, historian, translator of Russian political works; former wife (1980–2004) of the late German/British academic and politician
Ralf Dahrendorf; has served on the boards of
Article 19, the Jewish Institute for Policy Research; has been chair of British branch of the
New Israel Fund; was co-founder of the Working Group on the Internment of Dissidents in Psychiatric Hospitals; is a signatory of the
Independent Jewish Voices declaration, which is critical of Israeli policies towards the Palestinians. •
Aviva Dautch (born 5 May 1978) poet, academic, curator and magazine publisher, of Eastern European ancestry; writer in residence at the
British Museum,
the Jewish Museum London and the Separated Child Foundation and is resident expert on
BBC Radio 4's poetry series
On Form; English co-translator for Afghan refugee poet and
BBC World Service journalist Suhrab Sirat; has written articles, and curated exhibitions and events for arts organisations including the
Bethlem Museum of the Mind,
The British Library,
The Royal Academy of Arts and Tara Arts;lectures internationally on Jewish arts and culture. In 2020 she was appointed executive director of
Jewish Renaissance magazine. Dautch also teaches Jewish Culture and
Holocaust Studies at the
University of Roehampton •
Lionel Davidson (Hull 1922–2009) thriller novelist, Golden Dagger winner, famous for "The night of Wenceslas", "Chelsea murders", "Kolinsky Heights". Lived briefly in Jaffa, Israel at the invitation of the government. •
Isaac Deutscher (; 3 April 1907 – 19 August 1967);
Polish Jewish Marxist author,
journalist and
political activist who moved to the
United Kingdom before the outbreak of
World War II; best known as a
biographer of
Leon Trotsky and as a commentator on
Marxist dialectic and
Soviet affairs. His three-volume biography of Trotsky was highly influential among the British
New Left in the 1960s and 1970s. •
Michael Dickson (educator) (born 11 October 1977) dual citizen British-Israeli; author of
ISRESILIENCE: What Israelis Can Teach the World; journalist for
The Jerusalem Post,
Times of Israel,
Jewish Chronicle; serves as executive director of the
StandWithUs Israel in Jerusalem; senior Fellow at
Center for International Communication (CIC) of
Bar Ilan University; Honorary member of
Alpha Epsilon Pi; appointed to the Spectrum Forum of leading Executive Directors in
Israel; is winner of the Bonei Zion Prize ; author of ISResilience: What Israelis Can Teach the World; was listed as14th most influential person on "Jewish Twitter" by the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency; helped establish StandWithUs Israel Fellowship, which has graduated over 1,500 of Israel's future diplomats and leaders who have gone on to staff major corporations, political parties in the
Knesset, government ministries and embassies and
NGOs worldwide; has led
diplomatic, academic and journalist missions to Israel and has advocated for Israel in forums, such as UN "
Durban II" conference, in the
Knesset, in Europe, the US and in the Far East; helped pioneer
StandWithUs'
social media activity; helped set up "social media situation rooms" during
Operation Cast Lead, which he referred to as "the first social media war"; Diski was a regular contributor to the
London Review of Books; the collections ''Don't
and Why Didn't You Do What You Were Told?
collect articles and essays written for the publication. Her memoirs include In Gratitude
, The Sixties
, Skating to Antarctica
, and Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America With Interruptions'', for which she won the 2003
Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. •
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) novelist, poet, playwright, writer, and prime minister A prolific novelist, the 1840s Disraeli wrote a trilogy of novels with political themes.
Coningsby attacks the evils of the
Whig Reform Bill of 1832 and castigates the leaderless conservatives for not responding.
Sybil; or, The Two Nations (1845) reveals Peel's betrayal over the
Corn Laws. These themes are expanded in
Tancred (1847). With
Coningsby; or, The New Generation (1844). •
Isaac D'Israeli, (11 May 1766 – 19 January 1848) was a British writer, scholar and the father of
British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli. He is best known for his essays and his associations with other men of letters. •
Michael Pinto-Duschinsky (born June 1943) Hungarian-born author, journalist, scholar, political consultant and writer. •
Anton Ehrenzweig (27 November 1908 – 5 December 1966)
Austrian Jewish British author and
theorist on
modern art,
psychoanalysis and
Avant-garde music who wrote
The Psychoanalysis of Artistic Vision and Hearing (1953) and
The Hidden Order of Art (1967). •
Norbert Elias (22 June 1897 – 1 August 1990)
German Jewish
sociologist who later became a British citizen; author of
The Civilizing Process and especially famous for his
theory of civilizing/decivilizing processes. •
Samantha Ellis is an Iraqi Jewish British playwright and writer best known for her books
How to be a Heroine, Chopping Onions on My Heart, and her play
How to Date a Feminist. •
Richard Ellmann literary scholar and biographer •
Aaron Esterson (23 September 1923 – 15 April 1999) prolific author and psychiatrist who was one of the founders of the
Philadelphia Association along with
R. D. Laing, with whom he wrote
Sanity, Madness, and the Family. He wrote four other scholarly texts on
psychiatry and
existentialism as well as countless academic papers and
monographs. •
Hans Eysenck (4 March 1916 – 4 September 1997); author of over fifty books and numerous academic papers; of
German Jewish maternal lineage; psychologist best remembered for his work on
intelligence and
personality, although he worked on other issues in psychology. At the time of his death, Eysenck was the most frequently cited living psychologist in the
peer-reviewed
scientific journal literature. •
Henry Ezriel (c1910-1985) was a
Kleinian analyst and author who pioneered group analysis at the
Tavistock Clinic; best known as the originator of one of the
Malan triangles; worked alongside
W. R. Bion as consultant psychiatrist to the Tavistock. There he developed his method of psychoanalytic group work •
Moris Farhi writer (Turkish-born) •
Benjamin Farjeon (12 May 1838 – 23 July 1903) was an English novelist, playwright, printer and journalist. As an author, he was known for his huge output and frequently compared to
Charles Dickens as a social novelist. He was the father of
J. Jefferson Farjeon,
Eleanor Farjeon,
Herbert Farjeon, and
Harry Farjeon. •
Eleanor Farjeon (13 February 1881 – 5 June 1965) English author of
children's stories and
plays,
poetry,
biography,
history and
satire. Several of her works had illustrations by
Edward Ardizzone. Her most famous work was
Morning Has Broken, a
Christian hymn first published in 1931. •
Mick Farren (3 September 1943 – 27 July 2013)
Proto-punk musician,
anarchist,
political activist, anti-
fascist agent provocateur and author; foundation figure in the growth of the British
Underground press; co-wrote songs with
Lemmy Kilmister for
Hawkwind and
Motörhead was an English rock musician, singer, journalist, and author associated with
counterculture and the
UK underground. Farren was prolific writer for the
International Times and
New Musical Express, as well as writing 23 novels and eleven works of non-fiction and was columnist for
Los Angeles CityBeat. •
Andrew Feinstein author of
The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, an investigation into the global
arms industry; The
Washington Post described the book as "A comprehensive treatment of the arms trade, possibly the most complete account ever written." A staunch critic of the nature and regulation of the global arms trade, Feinstein is a board member of
Declassified UK, an investigative journalism website set up in 2019 by
Matt Kennard and
Mark Curtis to cover the UK's role on the international stage. •
David Feldman (historian) author and professor at
Birkbeck College,
University of London; director of the
Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism;
Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism was launched in 2010, as a centre for research, teaching, and public policy formation relating to
antisemitism and racial intolerance. research relates to the history of minorities and their place in British society from 1600 to the current time. •
Eva Figes (15 April 1932 – 28 August 2012), anti-Israel,
anti-Zionist author and
feminist; wrote novels,
literary criticism, studies of
feminism, and memoirs relating to
Berlin childhood and experiences as
Jewish refugee from
Hitler's Germany. •
Orlando Figes (born 1959) historian, author, known for works on Russian history; has also contributed on European history with his book
The Europeans (2019); has served on editorial board of journal
Russian History; writes for international press, broadcasts on television and radio, reviews for
The New York Review of Books, and is fellow of
Royal Society of Literature; was historical consultant on film
Anna Karenina starring
Keira Knightley and
Jude Law with screenplay by
Tom Stoppard; historical consultant on BBC
War & Peace television series. •
Antonia Forest (26 May 1915 – 28 November 2003) was the
pseudonym of
Patricia Giulia Caulfield Kate Rubinstein, an
English writer. She wrote 13 books for children, published between 1948 and 1982. Her 10 best-known works concern the doings of the fictional Marlow family. Forest also wrote two historical novels about the Marlows' Elizabethan ancestors. •
Gilbert Frankau writer •
Pamela Frankau (3 January 1908 – 8 June 1967) popular novelist from a prominent artistic and literary family who wrote over thirty novels; grandmother was novelist
Julia Frankau; father was
Gilbert Frankau; partner was Italian-Jewish poet
Humbert Wolfe. •
Sally Herbert Frankel (1903–1996) author of over five influential texts on economics and colonial settlement in South Africa; Professor of Colonial Economic Affairs and Economics of Underdeveloped Countries at
Oxford University in period following
Second World War; originally from South Africa, of
German-Jewish descent, he moved to England after the Second World War. author of
Gender and Class Consciousness (1980). One of his daughters was sociologist
Ruth Frankenberg. •
Ruth Frankenberg (1957–2007); social scientist and feminist, known for her pioneering work in field of
whiteness studies; author of
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness; In
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness, Frankenberg argues race shapes both the lives of the oppressor (white people, according to Frankenberg) as well as the oppressed. Frankenberg examined ways in which
Ashkenazi Jewish women experience a sense of cultural belonging, but do not consider their Jewish faith to be classified a formal "race". best known for her screenplays for
The Leather Boys,
I Want What I Want (film) and
Only Lovers Left Alive (novel) •
Hadley Freeman (born 15 May 1978) American British journalist based in London; writes for the
Jewish Chronicle,
The Guardian and Vogue; of Austro-Hungarian and
Polish Jewish ancestry. •
Anna Freud CBE (3 December 1895 – 9 October 1982); psychoanalyst of
Austrian–Jewish descent; born in
Vienna; youngest child of
Sigmund Freud and
Martha Bernays and followed path of father and contributed to field of
psychoanalysis; alongside
Hermine Hug-Hellmuth and
Melanie Klein, is considered founder of psychoanalytic
child psychology. •
Stephen Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer. He has written novels, non fiction, scripts and autobiography. •
Frank Furedi (born 1947) is a
Hungarian Jewish British Canadian academic known for work on
sociology of fear, education, therapy culture, paranoid parenting and
sociology of knowledge; in 1970s, was member of
International Socialists (IS); later formed the
Revolutionary Communist Group, and then broke from that to form Revolutionary Communist Tendency, refounded as the
Revolutionary Communist Party in 1978; RCP was distinguished by its
contrarianism; among its positions were support for
IRA and
Saddam Hussein fantasy writer •
Mark Gatiss (born 17 October 1966), actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, producer and novelist; work includes writing for and acting in the television series
Doctor Who,
Sherlock,
Game of Thrones and
Dracula; member of
The League of Gentlemen; television work includes writing for
Randall & Hopkirk and script editing
Little Britain; has written over twenty popular books and novels. •
Uri Geller (; born 20 December 1946 in British Mandate of Palestine
Mandatory Palestine (now Israel), of
Hungarian Jewish ancestry, is an Israeli-British
illusionist, magician, television personality, self-proclaimed
psychic and author of over ten books, both fiction and non-fiction. •
Ernest Gellner social anthropologist, scholar of
nationalism and identity, of
Austrian Jewish and
Czech Jewish origin. •
Adele Geras, (née Weston; born 15 March 1944)
FRSL is an English writer for young children, teens and adults. She has written more than 95 books for children, young adults, and adults. •
Norman Geras (25 August 1943 – 18 October 2013);
political theorist of
Rhodesian
Jewish origin;
Professor Emeritus of Politics at the
University of Manchester; author of over ten scholarly and historical texts, mostly focused on radical politics; contributed to analysis of
Karl Marx in
Marx and Human Nature; in 2006, he was one of the principal authors of the
Euston Manifesto. •
Martin Gilbert (25 October 1936 – 3 February 2015); historian and honorary Fellow of
Merton College, Oxford; author of 88 books, including works on
Winston Churchill, the 20th century, and
Jewish history including
the Holocaust; was a member of the
Chilcot Inquiry into Britain's role in the
Iraq War; noted for his endorsement of
Bat Ye'or and
Eurabia theory, providing comment for her book, stating that the theory "is 100 percent accurate". One of Gilbert's last books, ''In Ishmael's House: A History of the Jews in Muslim Lands'' cited Ye'or with approval several times. •
Morris Ginsberg FBA (14 May 1889 – 31 August 1970) British
sociologist and prolific author who played a key role in the development of the discipline of sociology. He served as editor of
The Sociological Review in the 1930s and later became the founding chairman of the
British Sociological Association in 1951 and its first President (1955–1957). He was president of the
Aristotelian Society from 1942 to 1943, and helped draft the UNESCO 1950 statement titled
The Race Question. •
Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman (born 8 March 1961) prolific author, political theorist, academic, social commentator, and
Labour life peer in the
House of Lords; senior lecturer in Political Theory at
London Metropolitan University and Director of its Faith and Citizenship Programme; best known as a founder of
Blue Labour, a term he coined in 2009;called on the Labour Party to establish dialogue with the far-right
English Defence League (EDL) in order to challenge their views; called for some immigration to be temporarily halted and for the right of
free movement of labour, a key provision of the
Treaty of Rome, to be abrogated, dividing opinion among Labour commentators.; accepted the visiting professorship he was offered by
Haifa University, telling
The Jewish Chronicle: "If people I know say they want to
boycott Israel, I say they should start by boycotting me". At the 2016
Limmud conference, he suggested the Labour Party's antisemitism harked back to Jewish
Marxists, who wanted to "liberate Jews" from their Judaism. •
Ralph Glasser wrote
Growing up in the Gorbals •
Donny Gluckstein (b. 1954); historian at
Edinburgh College; son of
Tony Cliff and
Chanie Rosenberg, is author of numerous books and articles; his book ''A People's History of the Second World War'' shortlisted for the
Bread and Roses Award. •
Ian Goldin professor at
University of Oxford, author of over twenty books and 60 scholarly academic
monographs, founding director of the
Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford; currently the director of the Oxford Martin Research Programmes on Technological and Economic Change, Future of Work and Future of Development; was principal economist at the
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in
London, and program director at the
OECD in Paris, where he directed the Development Centre's Programs on Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development; was chief executive and managing director of the
Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA); served as adviser to President
Nelson Mandela; •
Louis Golding novelist •
Vivien Goldman British author and academic of
German Jewish ancestry, focusing on the
historiography,
Praxis (process),
dialectic and
epistemology of
punk rock, dub, and
reggae. •
Lewis Goldsmith journalist and political writer •
Carl Gombrich author of numerous scholarly
monographs, academic papers and articles on
mysticism,
epistemology,
ontology,
dialectics and music; former opera singer and co-founder of the
London Interdisciplinary School; grandson of Ernst Gombrich; son of
Sacred Sanskrit and
Pali Literature scholar, Richard Gombrich. •
Ernst Gombrich art historian of
Viennese Jewish origin. •
Richard Gombrich writer of
Viennese Jewish ancestry, British
Indologist and scholar of
Sanskrit,
Pāli, and
Buddhist studies; historian of
Tripiṭaka,
Sthavira nikāya,
Mahāsāṃghika schools,
Abhidharma,
Vinaya,
Theravada, and ancient collections of
Buddhist texts •
David Graeber British-American author, academic, scholar and anti capitalist
anarchist activist, writer of
Ashkenazi origin. •
Linda Grant FRSL (born 15 February 1951) is an English novelist and journalist. She published her first book, a non-fiction work,
Sexing the Millennium: A Political History of the Sexual Revolution, in 1993. She wrote a personal memoir of her mother's fight with
vascular dementia called
Remind Me Who I Am, Again, which was cited in a discussion about ageing on
BBC Radio 4's
Thinking Allowed in December 2003. •
Dominic Green (born 1970) is a British historian, columnist and musician. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts, he is editor of the US edition of
The Spectator[
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The Critic.[
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The Spectator, and a columnist for
The Daily Telegraph. •
Wendy Greengross (29 April 1925 – 10 October 2012); author of books on
pastoral care and counselling, journalist,
general practitioner and broadcaster.
The Independent called her "a pioneering counsellor and one of the leading figures in fighting for equal rights for the disabled and the elderly"; went into broadcasting, joining
BBC Radio 4 counselling programme ''If You Think You've Got Problems
; also had her own television show on BBC1, Let's Talk it Over''; •
Tony Greenstein anti
fascist, anti-
Zionist writer and pro-
Palestinian author,
activist of
Polish Jewish rabbinical lineage and ancestry; author of
The Fight Against Fascism in Brighton & the South Coast and ''Zionism: Antisemitism's twin in Jewish garb
and Zionism During the Holocaust – Weaponising Memory in the Service of State and Nation.'' •
John Hajnal (born
Hajnal-Kónyi; 26 November 1924 – 30 November 2008), was
Hungarian-
British academic in fields of
mathematics and
economics (
statistics); author of numerous
monographs and academic papers and a book on the inefficacy of the British education system “The student trap: A critique of university and sixth-form curricula”; best known for identifying, in landmark 1965 paper, the historical pattern of marriage of northwest Europe in which people married late and many adults remained single. The geographical boundary of this unusual marriage pattern is now known as the
Hajnal line; also worked on demography for
United Nations, and for the
Office of Population Research,
Princeton University; was member of the
International Statistical Institute and was elected
FBA. •
Charlotte Haldane (27 April 1894 – 16 March 1969) was a British writer known as a feminist but also for anti-feminism in her 1927 book,
Motherhood and its Enemies. In 1937 she worked as editor of the
anti-fascist magazine
Woman Today. and during the
Spanish Civil War she took part in fund-raising activities on behalf of the
International Brigades.In 1941 she went to Moscow to report on Soviet defense against the Nazis. •
Keith Kahn-Harris author,
sociologist and music
critic; honorary research fellow and senior
lecturer at
Birkbeck College and an associate fellow of the
Institute for Jewish Policy Research and a
lecturer at
Leo Baeck College; has published
academic and non-academic articles on
Judaism, music scenes,
heavy metal music,
transgression,
Israel, communities, dialogue,
religion,
ethnicity,
political discourse, and denial; also writes for Medium,
The Guardian,
The Independent,
Times of Israel,
Haaretz, The Herald (Scotland),
New Statesman,
Times Higher Education (THE), The i Paper,
openDemocracy; from 2001 to 2002 was "
Jerusalem Fellow" at the Mandel School for Advanced Educational Leadership in
Jerusalem. •
Efraim Halevy (; born in London, 2 December 1934);
Israeli intelligence expert and diplomat; was director of
Mossad and 3rd head of
Israeli National Security Council; author of
Man in the Shadows, covering Middle Eastern history since the late 1980s; nephew of
Sir Isaiah Berlin; has written for The
Washington Post,
Jerusalem Post,
Times of Israel,
Haaretz,
Foreign Affairs,
Ynet News,
The Forward •
Simon Hattenstone (born 29 December 1962 in Salford, England) journalist and writer; features writer and interviewer for The Guardian. He has also written or ghost-written a number of biographical books. •
Paula Heimann; (2 February 1899 – 22 October 1982), author, academic,
psychiatrist and
psychoanalyst who established phenomenon of
countertransference as important tool of
psychoanalytic treatment, publishing influential studies, texts, academic papers and
monographs; member of
British Psychoanalytical Society; author of
monograph A contribution to the problem of sublimation and paper
On counter-transference, presented at the Psychoanalytical Congress in 1949 in Zurich, led to rift with
Kleinian group of analysts; later turned to the
Independents group and was
Margarete Mitscherlich's analyst;
Alexander Mitscherlich also underwent
training analysis with her. •
Margot Heinemann (18 November 1913 – 10 June 1992) was a British
Marxist writer, drama scholar, and leading member of the
Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). •
David Held (27 August 1951 – 2 March 2019) was a British
political scientist who specialised in
political theory and
international relations; author of over twenty five
scholarly
academic texts and
monographs. •
Basil Henriques •
Muriel Gray FRSE (born 30 August 1958) is a Scottish author, broadcaster and journalist, of Jewish ancestry. Gray has been a columnist for many publications, including
Time Out magazine, the
Sunday Correspondent, the
Sunday Mirror, and
Bliss magazine, and writes regularly for the
Sunday Herald. and
The Guardian. •
Zoë Heller author (Jewish father), daughter of screenwriter
Lukas Heller; her paternal grandfather was the political philosopher
Hermann Heller. Her brother is screenwriter
Bruno Heller. Her sister,
Lucy Heller Chief Executive of education charity
Ark •
Noreena Hertz (born 24 September 1967) author, hosted "MegaHertz: London Calling", on
Sirius XM's Insight channel and
ITV News Economics Editor; wife of
Danny Cohen (television executive), who previously held posts as Director of
BBC Television and Controller of
BBC One; from 1996 to 1997 she worked on the Middle East peace process with
Palestinians, Egyptians,
Israelis and
Jordanians; honorary professor at
University College London; Guardian op-ed writer. great-granddaughter of Joseph Hertz (Chief Rabbi of the British Empire) •
Chaim Herzog(; 17 September 1918 – 17 April 1997) Northern-Irish-born Israeli politician, general, lawyer and author of over five books on the Arab-Israeli conflict, who served as the
sixth President of Israel; born in
Belfast, raised in
Dublin, the son of Ireland's
Chief Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, he
immigrated to
Mandatory Palestine in 1935 and served in
Haganah Jewish paramilitary group during the
1936–1939 Arab revolt; returned to Palestine after the war and, following the end of the British Mandate and Israel's
Declaration of Independence in 1948, fought in the
Battles of Latrun during the
1948 Arab–Israeli War; retired from
Israel Defence Forces in 1962 with rank of major-general.His son
Isaac Herzog is the incumbent
President of Israel, the first father–son pair to serve as the nation's president, and led the
Israeli Labor Party and the parliamentary
Opposition in the Knesset between 2013 and 2017. author of several influential works on international law, including
Problems and Process: International Law and How We Use It (1994); former president of
International Court of Justice (ICJ); was first female judge elected to the ICJ, and was elected to three-year term as president in 2006; became
Queen's Counsel (QC) in 1986, and is bencher of the
Inner Temple; served on the UN Human Rights Committee for 14 years; her role as member of the leading body for supervising implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights earned her respect for her diligence and competence; resigned from the
Human Rights Committee when she was elected to the
International Court of Justice on 12 July 1995, re-elected on 6 February 2000, and ended her second term on 6 February 2009. Her professional appointments include Specialist in International Law,
Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1963–1974; Visiting Fellow,
London School of Economics, 1974–1978;Professor of International Law,
University of Kent at Canterbury, 1978–1981; Professor of International Law,
University of London (
London School of Economics), 1981–1995; Vice President, British Institute of International and Comparative Law; Member of the UN Human Rights Committee. •
David Hirsh (born 29 September 1967) pro-
Zionist, pro-Israeli author and scholar; senior Lecturer in Sociology at
Goldsmiths, University of London, and co-founder of
Engage, a campaign against the
academic boycott of
Israel; helped develop the
Euston Manifesto. •
Eric Hobsbawm Marxist historian of
Viennese Jewish origin. •
Anthony Horowitz works include the
Alex Rider series •
Eva Ibbotson (née Wiesner; 21 January 1925 – 20 October 2010) was an Austrian-born British novelist, known for her
children's literature.
Jeremy Isaacs (born 28 September 1932) author of four books; creator of
The World at War, British documentary television series chronicling the events of the
Second World War recipient of many
British Academy Television Awards and
International Emmy Awards; won the
British Film Institute Fellowship in 1986, the
International Emmy Directorate Award in 1987 and the
BAFTA Fellowship in 1985, General Director of the
Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden from 1987 to 1996; was the founding chief executive of
Channel 4 between 1981 and 1987. •
Jonathan Israel (b. 1946); historian specialising in
Dutch history, the
Age of Enlightenment,
Spinoza's Philosophy and
European Jews; Professor at
Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton, New Jersey, previously Professor at
University College London; has focused his attention on multi-volume history of the
Age of Enlightenment, contrasting two camps; "radical Enlightenment" was founded on rationalist materialism articulated by
Spinoza and in opposition was "moderate Enlightenment" which he sees as weakened by its belief in God. • Naomi Jacob, (1 July 1884 – 27 August 1964), also known by the
pen name Ellington Gray, was an English writer, actress, broadcaster and lesbian of Jewish origin. Her father rejected his Jewish ancestry but Naomi Jacob embraced it. •
Joseph Jacobs folklorist •
Howard Jacobson (born 1942) author; has described himself as "a Jewish
Jane Austen" (in response to being described as "the English Philip Roth"), and also states, "I'm not by any means conventionally Jewish. I don't go to
shul. What I feel is that I have a Jewish mind, I have a Jewish intelligence. I feel linked to previous Jewish minds of the past. I don't know what kind of trouble this gets somebody into, a disputatious mind. What a Jew is has been made by the experience of 5,000 years, that's what shapes the Jewish sense of humour, that's what shaped Jewish pugnacity or tenaciousness." He maintains that "comedy is a very important part of what I do." Jacobson expressed concern over
antisemitism in the Labour Party under
Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, with particular reference to a growth in
Anti-Zionism and its "antisemitic characteristics" which were "a taint of international and historic shame" and that trust between the party and most British Jews was "fractured beyond repair". •
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala novelist and screenwriter •
Gabriel Josipovici novelist and short story writer •
Ben Judah(born 1988) British journalist and the author of
This Is London and
Fragile Empire;son of author
Tim Judah; of Baghdadi Jewish descent; was a policy fellow in London at the
European Council on Foreign Relations; has also been a visiting fellow at the European Stability Initiative in Istanbul; was a research fellow at the
Hudson Institute in Washington D.C. In 2020, he joined the
Atlantic Council in Washington D.C. as a Nonresident Senior Fellow. Judah has written for various progressive and conservative think-tanks including
The Center For American Progress (CAP) and
Policy Exchange. •
Tim Judah (born 31 March 1962)British writer of
Iraqi Jewish ancestry, reporter and political analyst for
The Economist. Judah has written several books on the
geopolitics of the
Balkans, mainly focusing on
Serbia and
Kosovo. •
Tony Judt (2 January 1948 – 6 August 2010) was a British-American historian, essayist and university professor of
Russian Jewish and Romanian Jewish ancestry, who specialised in
European history;in aftermath of the Six-Day War, Judt worked as a driver and translator for the
Israel Defense Forces. After the war, Judt's belief in the
Zionist enterprise began to unravel and he then called for the conversion of "Israel from a Jewish state to a
binational one" that would include all of what is now Israel, Gaza, East Jerusalem, and the West Bank. This proposed new state would have equal rights for all Jews and
Arabs living in Israel and the
Palestinian territories. •
Anthony Julius (born 16 July 1956) author of
Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England focusing on tendency in English history that is
discriminatory against Jews, arguing that current
anti-Zionism in England developed out of
antisemitism in the United Kingdom and utilises the same
antisemitic tropes in its arguments; was chairman of the board of
The Jewish Chronicle; founder of The
Euston Manifesto and was founding member of
Engage (organisation) which aims to counter the
boycott Israel campaign; known for being
Diana, Princess of Wales divorce lawyer and for representing
Deborah Lipstadt in trial against
David Irving. •
Ann Jungman (born 1938) is an author of
children's literature. She was born in
Highgate,
North London of German Jewish refugees. She studied
Law at
Exeter University before training as a
primary school teacher. She founded
Barn Owl Books in 1999, an independent publishing company that re-releases out-of-print children's books, publishing 8 books a year. == Authors, K–Z ==