List of British Jewish writers includes writers (novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists, authors of scholarly texts and others) from the
United Kingdom and its
predecessor states who are or were
Jewish or of Jewish descent.
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
ConservativeZionist 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.[10] 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.
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.
Peter Benenson (born Peter James Henry Solomon; 31 July 1921 – 25 February 2005) British lawyer, writer, pamphleteer,
human rightsactivist and the founder of human rights group
Amnesty International (AI); accepted the
Pride of Britain Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2001[23] 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.[24]
J. D. Bernal[30] (/bərˈnɑːl/; 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.[31] 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.
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.
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.
Elias Canetti[69] 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
Alan Coren (27 June 1938 – 18 October 2007)[72] was an English
humourist, writer and
satirist who was a regular panellist on the
BBC radio
quizThe 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 (néeCohen; 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;[73] 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;[74][75] 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;[76] is a signatory of the
Independent Jewish Voices declaration, which is critical of Israeli policies towards the Palestinians.[77][78][79]
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.[citation needed]
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.
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.[109] There he developed his method of psychoanalytic group work [109] centred on group tensions and on transferences between members, and between members and the group.[110]
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."[116] 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.[117]
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.
Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman (born 8 March 1961) prolific author, political theorist, academic, social commentator, and
Labourlife 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;[148] 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,[149][150] dividing opinion among Labour commentators.;[151][152] 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".[153] 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.[154]
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";[169] went into broadcasting, joining
BBC Radio 4 counselling programme If You Think You've Got Problems;[170] also had her own television show on BBC1, Let's Talk it Over;[170] father was mayor of
Holborn , and brother
Sir Alan Greengross (born 1929) was Conservative member of
Greater London Council.[171]
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.
Rosalyn Higgins, Baroness HigginsGBE,KC (born 2 June 1937);[188] 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.
Howard Jacobson (born 1942) author;[192] has described himself as "a Jewish
Jane Austen" (in response to being described as "the English Philip Roth"),[193] 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."[194] 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".[195]
Tony Judt (/dʒʌt/JUT; 2 January 1948 – 6 August 2010)[203] 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.[204] 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.[205]
Hans Keller (11 March 1919 – 6 November 1985) was a
Viennese Jewish British musician and prolific writer, who made significant contributions to
musicology and music criticism; best known for his appearance on TV show The Look of the Week in which he interviewed
Syd Barrett and
Roger Waters. Keller was generally puzzled by, or even contemptuous of, the group and its music, opening with the comment "why has it all got to be so terribly loud?"
Melanie Klein ( 30 March 1882 – 22 September 1960),
Austrian Jewish British author and
psychoanalyst known for work in
child analysis; was primary figure in development of
object relations theory, suggesting that pre-verbal
existential anxiety in infancy catalysed formation of unconscious, resulting in unconscious splitting of the world into good and bad
idealizations; how child resolves that split depends on constitution of child and the character of nurturing the child experiences, and quality of resolution can inform presence, absence, and/or type of distresses a person experiences later in life.[234]
Nick Lowles, founder of
Hope Not Hate and former editor of the
anti-fascistSearchlight (magazine), backed by various politicians and celebrities several trade unions. Knowles is the author of a number of books on football violence, right wing groups and
anti-Semitism in Britain.He was an freelance investigative journalist, working in television, including on
BBC Panorama,
World in Action, Channel Four Dispatches and MacIntyre Undercover.
Adam LeBor (1961); author, journalist; foreign correspondent from 1991; now based in London; also lived in
Ramat HaShofetkibbutz,
Israel, Berlin and Paris; reported from the former Yugoslavia;[247][248] covered collapse of Communism and Yugoslav wars for The Independent;currently contributes to The Times, the Financial Times, where he reviews thrillers, The Critic, Monocle; works as editorial trainer and writing coach at Financial Times, Citywire and Monocle; former contributor to Harry's Place; has written eight non-fiction books, including Hitler's Secret Bankers, shortlisted for the
Orwell Prize, a biography of Slobodan Milosevic, and City of Oranges, an account of Jewish and Arab families in Jaffa, shortlisted for the Jewish Quarterly Prize.[citation needed]
Sir
Sidney Lee (1859–1926),[249] biographer and literary scholar
Amy Levy (1861–1889), poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist
Deborah Levy (born 6 August 1959); novelist, playwright and poet of South African and
Lithuanian Jewish ancestry; her plays were staged by the
Royal Shakespeare Company; novels included Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography and Billy & Girl; recent fiction has included the
Booker-shortlisted novels Swimming Home[252] and Hot Milk, as well as the
Booker-longlisted The Man Who Saw Everything and short-story collection Black Vodka;The Guardian ranked The Cost of Living number 84 in list of "The 100 best books of the 21st century".[253]
David Littman (activist) (4 July 1933 – 20 May 2012) author of over five books and scores of monographs and academic papers and activist[267][268] best known for organising the departure of Jewish children from Morocco; then worked as
lobbyist at the United Nations in Geneva and was also historian.[269][270] He was married to
Bat Ye'or.
Emanuel Litvinoff,[271] novelist. (5 May 1915 – 24 September 2011)[272] was a British writer and well-known figure in Anglo-Jewish literature, known for novels, short stories, poetry, plays and human rights campaigning. Litvinoff became aware of plight of persecuted Soviet Jews, and started worldwide campaign against this persecution.[273] Due to Litvinoff's efforts, prominent Jewish groups in United States became aware of issue, and well-being of Soviet Jews became cause for a worldwide campaign, eventually leading to mass migration of Jews from the Soviet Union to Israel and the United States.[274] For this he has been described by
Meir Rosenne, former Israeli ambassador to the United States, as "one of the greatest unsung heroes of the twentieth century... who won in the fight against an evil empire" and that "thousands and thousands of Russian Jews owe him their freedom".[275]
Naftali Loewenthal, member of the
ChabadHasidic community;[276][277] main area of study is
Hasidism and
Jewish Mysticism; professor in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at
University College London; director of the Chabad Research Unit, a division of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in
United Kingdom;[278] author of Communicating the Infinite: The Emergence of the Habad School (1990) ;[279] also authored Hasidism Beyond Modernity: Essays in Habad Thought and History (2019) as well as many scholarly articles and publications on the
Chabad mysticism;[280] also extensively written on history of
ChabadHasidic women.[281]
Madeleine Masson Rayner (née Levy; 23 April 1912 – 23 August 2007), author of plays, film scripts, novels, memoirs and biographies; best known for her biography of the highly respected and decorated war heroine, Polish agent of the British
Special Operations Executive,
Krystyna Skarbek.[283]
Roy Masters (commentator) (born 2 April 1928, died 22 April 2021); English-born American author of over twenty self-help pop psychology books, radio personality, businessman and hypnotist.
Simon Sebag Montefiore, author and
Haaretz journalist;[296]Jerusalem: The Biography was a number one non-fiction Sunday Times bestseller and a global bestseller and won The Jewish Book of the Year Award from the
Jewish Book Council;[297][298] descended from the banker Sir
Joseph Sebag-Montefiore, the nephew and heir of the wealthy philanthropist Sir
Moses Montefiore,[299] considered by some "the most important Jew of the 19th century".[300] Simon's mother was Phyllis April Jaffé (1927–2019) from the
Lithuanian branch of the
Jaffe family. The Montefiore family are descended from a line of wealthy
Sephardi Jews who were diplomats and bankers all over Europe and who originated from Morocco and Italy.
Lewis Namier (/ˈneɪmiər/;[315] 27 June 1888 – 19 August 1960), British historian of
Polish-Jewish ancestry; descendent of Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon Zalman,(Hebrew: ר' אליהו בן שלמה זלמן ) known as the
Vilna Gaon; author of over twenty
scholarly texts and authoritative
monographs on
sociopolitical typology and
geopolitical analysis; held positions with
Propaganda Department (1915–17), the Department of Information (1917–18) and with
Political Intelligence Department of Foreign Office (1918–20); following defeat of Germany in World War One, Namier joined British delegation at
Versailles Peace Conference of 1919; later Namier, who was a long-time
Zionist, worked as political secretary for the
Jewish Agency in Palestine (1929–31) and was close friend and associate of
Chaim Weizmann; active in
Zionist groups, lobbying British government to allow creation of Jewish Fighting Force in
Mandate of Palestine and from 1933 was engaged in efforts on behalf of Jewish refugees from Germany. Namier used
prosopography or collective
biography of every Member of Parliament (MP) and peer who sat in the British Parliament in the latter 18th century to reveal that local interests, not national ones, often determined how parliamentarians voted. As former patient of
Sigmund Freud, Namier was a believer in
psychohistory.
Daniel Pick ( born 1960 ); historian,
psychoanalyst, university teacher, writer, broadcaster; was recipient of a senior Investigator grant from the
Wellcome Trust and led research group at
Birkbeck exploring history of the
human sciences and 'psy' professions during the
Cold War ; project entitled 'Hidden Persuaders': Brainwashing, Culture, Clinical Knowledge and the Cold War Human Sciences, c. 1950–1990';[338] was fellow and training analyst of the
British Psychoanalytical Society and author of numerous articles and several books on modern cultural history, psychoanalysis, and history of the human sciences. These include Faces of Degeneration (CUP, 1989), The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind (OUP, 2012). and Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control (Profile/Wellcome Collection, 2022) He has written, and taught at
London University for many years, on aspects of the history of
psychoanalysis and
psychiatry,
modernism, the relationship of
Freudian thought to
historiography,
Victorian evolutionary theory,
eugenics and
social Darwinism, ideas of war and peace,
fin-de-siècle literature, and the history of cultural attitudes to crime and madness. He is an associate editor of
History Workshop Journal. Pick has presented for the BBC, including 'The Unconscious Life of Bombs',
BBC Radio 4 (December 2017);[339] 'Dictators on the Couch', BBC Radio 4 (June 2017);[340] and 'Freud for our Times', BBC Radio 4 (December 2016).[341]
Harold Pinter,[342] writer, playwright; Pinter signed the mission statement of Jews for Justice for Palestinians in 2005 and its full-page advertisement, "What Is Israel Doing? A Call by Jews in Britain", published in The Times on 6 July 2006, and he was a patron of the Palestine Festival of Literature. In April 2008, Pinter signed the statement "We're not celebrating Israel's anniversary". The statement noted: "We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state founded on terrorism, massacres and the dispossession of another people from their land.", "We will celebrate when Arab and Jew live as equals in a peaceful Middle East"
David Renton (born 1972), author and
barrister, was member of the
Socialist Workers Party (SWP); has published books on fascism,
anti-fascism and politics of left, notably Labour's Antisemitism Crisis: What the Left Got Wrong and How to Learn from it (Routledge, 2021) on presumed anti-Semitism in the British Labour Party; has also written for The
Jewish Chronicle; Renton is grandson of shoe designer
Kurt Geiger of
Viennese Jewish ancestry, and related to Conservative MP
Tim Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry; David Renton was educated at private boarding school
Eton College where he became member of
Labour Party; later studied history at
St John's College, University of Oxford; in 2021, Renton represented Stan Keable of
Labour Against the Witchhunt, at Employment Appeal Tribunal, which held that Keable was unfairly dismissed for events occurring at the "Enough is Enough" protests against Jeremy Corbyn. The EAT upheld an order that Keable should be reinstated.[356]
Adele Rose (8 December 1933 – 28 December 2020)[367] was an English television writer. She was the longest-serving scriptwriter for the soap opera Coronation Street, writing 457 scripts over a period of 37 years from 1961, and was the first woman to write for the show. She also originated the series Byker Grove (1989–2006), aimed at teenagers.
Nikolas Rose is a British
sociologist and social theorist. He is Distinguished Honorary Professor at the Research School of Social Sciences,[372] in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the
Australian National University and Honorary
Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College London.[373]
Andrew Roth (23 April 1919 – 12 August 2010);
biographer and
journalist known for his compilation of Parliamentary Profiles, a directory of biographies of British
Members of Parliament ; compiled profiles of the personnel of the
British Parliament and assessed their character traits, history, opinions and psychological drives; The Daily Telegraph called Roth a "Westminster institution".[375] He continued updating this publication to 2010, and it with its research documents and notes, including about half a million press cuttings, is now archived at the
Bishopsgate Institute.[376][377]
William Rothenstein (29 January 1872 – 14 February 1945), painter, printmaker, draughtsman, lecturer, writer on art; wrote several critical books and pamphlets, including Goya; the first English monograph on the artist), A Plea for a Wider Use of Artists & Craftsmen and Whither Painting; published three volumes of memoirs: Men and Memories, Vol I and II and Since Fifty.[378]Men and Memories Volume I includes anecdotes about
Oscar Wilde and many other friends of Rothenstein's, including Max Beerbohm, James Whistler, Paul Verlaine, Edgar Degas, and John Singer Sargent.[379]
Anne-Marie Sandler (December 15, 1925 – July 25, 2018),
psychologist and
psychoanalyst noted for her clinical observation of the relationship dynamic between blind infants and their mothers in a project spearheaded by
Anna Freud.[337] whilst majoring in psychology at the
University of Geneva, was selected by
Jean Piaget as research assistant in his project with
UNESCO in Switzerland, which focused on the development of children's perception of homeland and foreignness;[386] highly regarded for her scholarly work "Beyond Eight Months Anxiety," published in 1977, where she reconceptualised the
stranger anxiety experienced by infants as a condition that is also present in her adult clients;[387][156] president of the European Psychoanalytical Federation (EPF) and president of BPS in 1990; appeared on television discussion programme After Dark, alongside among others
Clive Ponting,
Colin Wallace,
T. E. Utley and
Peter Hain; held prominent positions in the Anna Freud Centre; also active in the
International Psychoanalytical Association.[337][156]
Colin Shindler, first professor of Israel Studies in the UK; founding chairman of the European Association of Israeli Studies (EAIS); author of ten books including History Of Modern Israel(
Cambridge University Press); main interests lie in evolution of Israeli Right, changes in the approach of the British and European Left towards Israel since 1948 and emigration movement of Soviet Jews between 1917 and 1991; Israel and the European Left: Between Solidarity and Delegitimisation (Continuum/Bloomsbury) was one of first books to examine history of relationship between the British Left and Israel; also wrote Vladimir Jabotinsky,
Menahem Begin and
Avraham Stern, The Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odesa to Hebron (Cambridge University Press) which was awarded gold medal in The Washington Institute's for Near East Policy's Book Prize competition; writes for the
Jewish Chronicle,
Jerusalem Post,
Haaretz,
History Today,
Times Literary Supplement; author of over 650 articles and reviews on
Israel and
Jewish political history.
Daniel Snowman (born 1938), writer,
historian, lecturer and broadcaster on
social and
cultural history. His career has spanned the academic world and the
BBC, while his books include Kissing Cousins (a comparative study of British and American social attitudes); critical portraits of the
Amadeus Quartet and of
Plácido Domingo; a study of the cultural impact of The Hitler Émigrés; an anthology of essays about today's leading historians; The Gilded Stage: A Social History of Opera and Just Passing Through – Interactions with the World 1938 – 2021; born in
London, his parents coming from
Anglo-Jewish families with roots in 19th-century Eastern Europe.
Flora Solomon, (néeBenenson; 28 September 1895 – 18 July 1984)[432] was an influential
Zionist.[433] The first woman hired to improve working conditions at
Marks & Spencer in London,[434] Solomon was later instrumental in the exposure of the spy Kim Philby.[435] She was the mother of
Peter Benenson, founder of
Amnesty International and founder of Blackmore Press, a British printing house. Her life was described in her autobiography A Woman's Way, written in collaboration with Barnet Litvinoff and published in 1984 by
Simon & Schuster. The work was also titled Baku to Baker Street: The Memoirs of Flora Solomon. Solomon campaigned for
subsidised medical services, directly influencing the
Labour concept of the welfare state and the creation of the British
National Health Service in 1948
Muriel Spark,[436] novelist (Jewish father, possible Jewish mother; converted to Catholicism later in life)[437]
Bob Stanley (born Robert Andrew Shukman; 25 December 1964); musician, journalist, author, film producer; member of
indie pop group
Saint Etienne and
music journalist for NME, Melody Maker, Mojo, The Guardian and The Times, as well as writing three books on music and football; also has a career as a
DJ and as a producer of
record labels, and has collaborated on a series of films about London. His second publication, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Modern Pop, published by
Faber & Faber; third publication Let's Do It: The Birth of
Pop Music: A History, published by Pegasus.
George Steiner,[438]FBA (April 23, 1929 – February 3, 2020)[439][440] author, literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist and educator;[441] wrote about relationship between language, literature and society, as well as impact of
the Holocaust;[442] ranked "among the great minds in today's literary world";[439] was Professor
University of Geneva (1974–94), Professor of Comparative Literature and Fellow in the
University of Oxford (1994–95), Professor of
Poetry in
Harvard University (2001–02) and Fellow of
Churchill College, Cambridge.[438] Steiner believed that nationalism is too inherently violent to satisfy the moral prerogative of Judaism, having said "that because of what we are, there are things we can't do "[170] and has suggested that Nazism was Europe's revenge on the Jews for inventing
conscience;[170] father of
David Steiner (academic);[443] executive director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy; [444] appointed to the Practitioner Council at the Hoover Institute,
Stanford University.
Jack Straw (born 3 August 1946), Christian, of Eastern European Jewish ancestry; served in Cabinet under Labour governments of
Tony Blair and
Gordon Brown as
Home Secretary and
Foreign Secretary; has written for The Guardian, Daily Mail, El País, The Independent, The Mirror UK, The Sun, The Telegraph, Financial Times, The Times, POLITICO, LSE Connect, Prospect Magazine, The New European and is author or co-author of the following books; The English Job: Understanding Iran and Why It Distrusts Britain (2019)
ISBN978-1785903991; Implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998: Minutes of Evidence, Wednesday 14 March 2001 (2001)
ISBN0-10-442701-9; Making Prisons Work: Prison Reform Trust Annual Lecture (1998)
ISBN0-946209-44-8; Future of Policing and Criminal Justice (Institute of Police & Criminological Studies Occasional Paper S.) (1996)
ISBN1-86137-087-3 and Policy and Ideology (1993)
ISBN0-9521163-0-8
John Strawson, author of Encountering Islamic law, Partitioning Palestine: Legal Fundamentalism in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict and editor of Law after Ground Zero and Tracking the Postcolonial in Law; also law professor at the
University of East London School of Law, teaching
International law and
Middle East Studies;[446][447] specialises in law and
postcolonialism, with particular reference to middle east, Islam and international law;[448] previous posts include visiting positions at
Birzeit University (Palestine) and the Institute of Social Studies (The Hague Netherlands);[449] researches encounter between western and Islamic law;[450] is Director of Law Postgraduate Programmes at University of East London, and Director of the
Centre on Human Rights in Conflict;[451] believes use of term
apartheid to describe Israel or Israeli policies does not apply to Israel, and use of analogy is unhistorical, and unhelpful.[447]
Adam Sutcliffe; Professor of European History at
King's College London, journalist writing on Jewish history and identity for Times Literary Supplement, author of What Are Jews For: History, Peoplehood, and Purpose (Princeton University Press, 2020), Judaism and Enlightenment; coeditor of Philosemitism in History, The Cambridge History of Judaism: The Early Modern World, and History, Memory and Public Life: The Past in the Present.
William Sutcliffe, novelist; New Boy (1986), Are You Experienced? (1997), Whatever Makes You Happy (2008), and The Wall (2013), set in an Israeli colony
Michael Tugendhat (born 21 October 1944),;[465] retired
High Court judge ; was High Court's senior media judge;[466] author and editor of The Law of Privacy and the MediaOxford University Press; Commercial Fraud: Civil Liability, Human Rights, and Money LaunderingOxford University Press; Les droits du genre humain : la liberté en France et en Angleterre (1159-1793), [The rights of mankind : liberty in France and England (1159-1793)] (with Elizabeth de Montlaur Martin, 2021),
ISBN978-2-36517-110-6, Société de Législation comparée, Paris (awarded by the French Académie des sciences morales et politiques the Prix Édouard Bonnefous 2022); Liberty Intact: Human Rights in English Law (2016)
Oxford University Press and Fighting for Freedom? (2017),
ISBN978-1-911128-49-6,
Bright Blue (organisation)
Natasha Walter (born 20 January 1967),
feminist writer, novelist, human rights activist, founder of charity Women for Refugee Women; father was
Nicolas Walter, an anarchist and
secular humanist writer;[468][469] of
German Jewish ancestry; journalist forVogue magazine; Deputy Literary Editor of The Independent; columnist and feature writer for The Guardian; appear regularly on
BBC2's Newsnight Review and
Radio 4's Front Row; was judge on the
Booker Prize and was a judge on the Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize); was the founder in 2006 of the charity
Women for Refugee Women, where she was the director until 2021. The charity supports women who seek
asylum to tell their stories and challenges injustices they experience.[468] She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2013.[470]
Eyal Weizman (born 1970) is a British Israeli architect and author of over twenty books and academic papers, mostly on the Israeli occupation of
Palestinian land and the architecture of the wall around Gaza. He is the director of the research agency
Forensic Architecture at
Goldsmiths, University of London where he is Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and a founding director there of the Centre for Research Architecture[476] at the department of Visual Cultures. In 2019 he was elected Fellow of the
British Academy.
Anna Mendelssohn (born Anna Mendleson,[509] 1948 – 15 November 2009), who wrote under the name Grace Lake, was prolific writer, poet, artist and political activist with
The Angry Brigade; was inspired by the Paris
student risings in May 1968, and became political radical in Britain; later studied poetry at
St Edmund's College, Cambridge, devoting her life to poetry and art; became opposed to technology, disliking judgments based on rationality in favour of those based on artistic judgment.[510]
Ben Elton (born 3 May 1959) comedian, actor, author, playwright, lyricist and director; was a part of London's
alternative comedy movement of the 1980s and writer on the sitcoms The Young Ones and Blackadder, as well as stand-up comedian on stage and television; style in the 1980s was left-wing
political satire; Elton is cousin of singer
Olivia Newton-John;[520][521][522] Elton's father is from a
German-Jewish family and Elton's mother, who was raised in the
Church of England, is of English background;[523][524] has published 17 novels and written numerous rock operas and musicals.
Harold Pinter,[342] playwright; Pinter signed the mission statement of Jews for Justice for Palestinians in 2005 and its full-page advertisement, "What Is Israel Doing? A Call by Jews in Britain", published in The Times on 6 July 2006, and he was a patron of the Palestine Festival of Literature. In April 2008, Pinter signed the statement "We're not celebrating Israel's anniversary". The statement noted: "We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state founded on terrorism, massacres and the dispossession of another people from their land.", "We will celebrate when Arab and Jew live as equals in a peaceful Middle East"
Jack Rosenthal (8 September 1931 – 29 May 2004) was an English
playwright. He wrote 129 early episodes of the
ITV soap opera Coronation Street and over 150
screenplays, including original TV plays, feature films, and adaptations.
Gary Sinyor (born
Manchester, England, 1962), film director, playwright, producer, and writer.[535] His first play NotMoses opened in London's West End; wrote, directed and produced a psychological thriller The Unseen; has also written for The
Jewish Chronicle,
Jewish News,
Times of Israel and The Guardian.
David Aaronovitch,
Neoconservative and
New Labour,
hawkish pro
Zionist journalist; wrote No Excuses for Terror, documentary film that "criticizes how the anti-Israel views of the far-left and far-right have permeated the mainstream media and political discourse;"[541]Blaming the Jews, film that evaluates anti-Semitism in Arab media and culture,God and the Politicians, film that looks at increasing religious influence on politics in the UK, Voodoo Histories: The Role of Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History, Jonathan Cape, 2009,
ISBN978-0-224-07470-4[542] Published in the US in 2010 by
Riverhead Books,
ISBN978-1-59448-895-5
Rafael Behr (born June 1974[550]), of South African Jewish ancestry; columnist at The Guardian,Financial Times; Jewish Chronicle; former political editor of the New Statesman.[551] Behr was named political commentator of the year at the 2014 Comment Awards;[552] in 2019, he was shortlisted for same award again.[553] Before becoming a journalist, Behr worked as a political risk analyst reporting on countries of the former Soviet Union.Since 2020 he has presented Politics on the Couch, an occasional podcast about the psychology of politics.[554]
Amber de Botton, head of UK news at
ITV News; was previously head of politics at ITV and deputy head of politics at
Sky News, after starting career as a parliamentary reporter; currently Prime Minister
Rishi Sunak's director of communications.
Martin Bright (born 5 June 1966); worked for the
BBC World Service and The Guardian; political editor of New Statesman, The Spectator,The Jewish Chronicle's political editor and worked at
Tony Blair Faith Foundation; has closely monitored rise of Muslim extremism, terrorist attacks in Britain and abroad, and aspects of British governmental relations with Muslim community in the United Kingdom; founded
New Deal of the Mind, a charitable company to promote employment in creative fields and working with organisations, government and all political parties. In 2001, wrote "The Great
Koran Con Trick" in the New Statesman and in
Channel Four documentary, Who Speaks for Muslims? (2002), and When Progressives Treat with Reactionaries: The British State's flirtation with radical Islamism (2006), a report for the Policy Exchange, Bright examined issues of contemporary Muslim community in the United Kingdom.[563]
Dave Cohen (writer); writer for television and radio as well as contributing columns to NME, Chortle and The Huffington Post.;[577] has written for
BBC Radio 4 including The Best of British, Dead Ringers which won a Sony Gold Award 2001, The Sunday Format, The News Quiz and 15 Minute Musical[578] which he was also a co-creator and won the 2009 Writer's Guild Best Radio Comedy Show, to name a few. He also wrote for
BBC Radio 5's The Treatment and They Came From Nowhere; has written for Rory Bremner Show, Spitting Image, Eleven O'Clock Show, Not Going Out and My Family.[579] He has been a long time writer for Have I Got News For You and Horrible Histories which has won a variety of awards including Best Sketch Show, Best Comedy Show at the Children's BAFTAs and Best British Comedy Show.[580]
Matt Frei (born 26 November 1963) is a British-German television news journalist and writer, formerly the
Washington, D.C.correspondent for Channel 4 News. He is now the channel's Europe editor and presenter of the evening news.[594]
Gerry Gable (born 27 January 1937); political activist; was editor of Searchlight magazine; was member of
Communist Party of Great Britain; worked as runner on Communist Party's Daily Worker newspaper; left the Communist Party because of their anti-Israel policy and because "first and foremost [he has] always been a Jewish trade unionist";[595] was commissioned by BBC to produce research for a
BBC Panorama programme "
Maggie's Militant Tendency";[596] was convicted in January 1964 of burglary of historian
David Irving’s flat[597]
Jemima Goldsmith (born 30 January 1974) screenwriter,[604] television, film and documentary producer and the founder of Instinct Productions, a television production company;[605] formerly journalist and editor of The New Statesman, served as the European
editor-at-large for the American magazine Vanity Fair.[606][607]
John GrossFRSL (12 March 1935 – 10 January 2011)[638][639][640] ; editor of The Times Literary Supplement , senior book editor and book critic on The New York Times,[641] theatre critic for The Sunday Telegraph ; assistant editor on Encounter ; literary editor of The New Statesman and Spectator; author of The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters, James Joyce , Shylock: Four Hundred Years in the Life of a Legend ; works as editor and anthologist include After Shakespeare: Writing inspired by the world’s greatest author , The Oxford Book of Aphorisms, The Oxford Book of Essays , The Oxford Book of Comic Verse, The New Oxford Book of English Prose , The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes , The Modern Movement, Dickens and the Twentieth Century, and The Oxford Book of Parodies; was trustee of London's
National Portrait Gallery; served on the
English Heritage advisory committee on
blue plaques; advised British government on the award of public honours[642] He served as chairman of the judges of the
Booker Prize,[643][644] ; member of
The Literary Society; director of Times Newspaper holdings, the publishers of The Times and The Sunday Times[645]; married to
Miriam Gross, literary editor; had two children,
Tom Gross and
Susanna Gross.
Tom Gross journalist, international affairs commentator,[662] human rights campaigner specialising in the Middle East[663] Gross was formerly a foreign correspondent for the London Sunday Telegraph and New York Daily News; works as an opinion journalist and has written for both Arab[664][665] and Israeli[666] newspapers, as well as European and American ones, both liberal[667] and conservative.[668] He also appears as a commentator on the BBC in English,[669] BBC Arabic,[670] and various Middle Eastern and other networks;[671][672] has been critical of the
BBC, arguing that their Middle East coverage is often slanted against
Israel,[673][674] and has subjected the coverage of Reuters,[675]The Guardian[676] and CNN[677] and what he termed the "cult of
Rachel Corrie"[678] to scrutiny; has also been critical of The New York Times, both for their general foreign coverage,[679] and historically for what he terms their "lamentable record of not covering the
Holocaust."[680]
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.
Afua Hirsch (born 1981);[384] of Ghanaian and
German Jewish paternal lineage; has worked as a journalist for The Guardian newspaper, and Education Editor for
Sky News; author of Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging; was on panel of judges for
Booker Prize for Fiction; was included in
2020 edition of the Powerlist of the most influential Britons from African/African-Caribbean heritage;[683] was cited as one of top 100 most influential Africans by New African;[684] in Powerlist 2021, she made top 10, ranking ninth most influential person of African or
African Caribbean heritage in United Kingdom;[685][686] Hirsh is great-niece of noted scholar
Peter Hirsch.
Isabel Kershner ; British-born Israeli journalist and author, who began reporting from
Jerusalem for The New York Times ; has worked as senior Middle East editor for The Jerusalem Report magazine; also written for The New Republic and has provided commentary on Middle East affairs on
BBC Radio; latest book is "The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle for its Inner Soul"; married to South African born Israeli author Hirsh Goodman, an employee of the
Institute for National Security Studies, which is involved in promoting a positive image of Israel, and which Kershner often relies on as a source.[690][691]
Ian Katz (born 9 February 1968) of South African Jewish origin;[697] journalist and broadcasting executive currently Chief Content Officer at Channel 4, overseeing all editorial decision making and commissioning across
Channel 4's linear channels, streaming services and social media.[698] Katz originally followed a career in print journalism, and was a deputy editor of The Guardian until 2013.[699] He then became the editor of the Newsnight current affairs programme on
BBC Two,[700] a role which he left in late 2017 to join Channel 4.[701]
Dominic Lawson, Former editor of The Spectator magazine and Sunday Telegraph newspaper, has been writing column for The Independent since 2006; also writes for the Sunday Times[711]
Norman Lebrecht (born 11 July 1948) is a British
music journalist and author who specialises in
classical music.[713] Lebrecht worked at the
Kol Yisrael news department, part of the
Israel Broadcasting Authority.[714] He returned to London in 1972,[714] where he was a news executive
Visnews Ltd. from 1973 to 1978;was a special contributor to The Sunday Times until 1991;[715] in 2019, Lebrecht published Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847–1947. It was published by Oneworld (UK) in October 2019 and by Simon & Schuster (USA) in December 2019.
Bernard Levin (19 August 1928 – 7 August 2004) was an English journalist, author and broadcaster, described by The Times as "the most famous journalist of his day".
Tim Lott(born 23 January 1956); author and journalist for The Guardian. He worked as a music journalist and ran a magazine publishing business, launching Flexipop magazine in 1980 with ex-Record Mirror journalist Barry Cain.
Monty Meth (3 March 1926 – 14 March 2021)[746] was a British journalist who was editor of the
Daily Mail; was member of the
Young Communist League;appointed
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the
2007 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the communities of Enfield and Bethnal Green.;[747] author of Here to Stay: A Study of Good Practices in the Employment of Coloured Workers 1972; Brothers to all Men? A Report on Trade Union Actions and Attitudes on Race Relations.
Hella PickCBE (24 April 1929 – 4 April 2024) ; in 1960, was UN correspondent of The Guardian newspaper, tutored by chief US correspondent
Alistair Cooke; awarded
CBE in 2000 ; was Arts & Culture Programme Director at
Institute for Strategic Dialogue, an independent think-tank based in London;[763] author ofSimon Wiesenthal: A Life in Search of Justice, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996 ; Guilty Victim - Austria from the Holocaust to
Haider, I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2000 and Invisible Walls, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021
Eve PollardEvelyn, Lady Lloyd, (néePollard, formerly Winkleman, born 25 December 1943); has been the editor of several
tabloid newspapers; was fashion editor at Honey magazine; also worked for Daily Mirror;[766] was launch editor-in-chief of Elle magazine in the US and edited Sunday magazine for the News of the World and You magazine for the Mail on Sunday; also worked in television as features editor of
TV-am (1982–1983) and devised Frocks on the Box for ITV contractor
TVS.;[766] often appeared on radio and TV; was regular participant in Through the Keyhole; was a guest panellist on the talk show Loose Women; in 2016, was appointed the first Chair of Reporters without Borders in the UK. In June 2019, was awarded the prestigious Journalist Laureate prize by the London Press Club. She has been a member, appointed in 1999, of the
Competition Commission's Newspaper Takeover Panel.[767] Pollard was appointed
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the
2008 Birthday Honours List for services to journalism.[768]
Richard Quest(born 9 March 1962) journalist and
barrister working as news anchor for
CNN International; also an editor-at-large of
CNN Business; anchors Quest Means Business, the five-times-weekly business program and fronts the CNN shows Business Traveller,[citation needed]The Express and Quest's World of Wonder; Quest wrote the book, The Vanishing of Flight MH370: The True Story of the Hunt for the Missing Malaysian Plane, published by
Penguin Random House on 8 March 2016.[777]
Hugo Rifkind(born 30 March 1977);[780] columnist for The Times; presenter on
Times Radio; regular guest on The News Quiz, on
BBC Radio 4; contributes to GQ;[781] son of
Conservative Party politician
Sir Malcolm Rifkind; Columnist of the Year in the 2011 Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards, and Media Commentator of the Year in the same awards in 2012; highly commended in the Best of Humour category at the Society of Editors' Press Awards;[782] was
Stonewall's Journalist of the Year; also named Best Grooming Journalist in the P&G Beauty Awards;[783] In 2015, at the Comment Awards, he was named Arts, Culture and Entertainment Commentator of The Year.[784] in 2017, he won both Best of Humour and Critic of the Year at the Society of Editors' Press Awards.[785]
Steve Rosenberg (born 5 April 1968); was part of
CBS News crew covering
first war in Chechnya; journalist for
BBC News and has been the BBC's
Moscow correspondent since 2003, except for stint as
Berlin correspondent between 2006 and 2010; in 2022, was appointed BBC's
Russia editor.
Joshua RozenbergKC (hon) (born 1950), British
solicitor,
legal affairs commentator,
journalist; husband of
Melanie Phillips, began career in journalism in 1975 at the BBC [794] where he launched Law in Action on
BBC Radio 4 in 1984.[795] At BBC he worked as producer, reporter and legal correspondent; in 2000 left to join The Daily Telegraph as legal affairs editor,[796] where he remained until 2008.[794][797] After leaving the Telegraph wrote for Evening Standard;[798] writes for Law Society Gazette and The Critic; wrote for The Guardian's online law page from 2010 to 2016; returned to the BBC to present Law in Action, nearly 25 years after leaving the radio programme.[795][799] He continues to be seen on BBC Television News as a legal affairs analyst. In January 2016, was made an honorary QC.[800]
Rachel Shabi; British journalist and author; contributing writer to The Guardian and the author of Not the Enemy, Israel's Jews from Arab Lands, which argued that
Israel has discriminated against and culturally stripped its population of
Jews from
Arab and
Muslim countries. The book received a
National Jewish Book Award.Born in Israel to Iraqi Jewish parents[816] in
Ramat Gan,[817] Shabi grew up in the UK.
Samantha Simmonds (born 1972 or 1973[818]); newsreader, television presenter and journalist; was a
news anchor for
Sky News until July 2016; returned to presenting for
BBC News in March 2017; has also written for
Jewish News, MSN (US), Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, The Sun, The Telegraph, Yahoo News Australia, Evening Standard,
Times of Israel, Good Housekeeping (UK), HuffPost UK, Women's Health, Women's Health (UK), TV Times, Glamour (UK), Celebs Now,
The Jewish Chronicle, Woman Magazine.
Bob Stanley (born Robert Andrew Shukman; 25 December 1964); musician, journalist, author, film producer; member of
indie pop group
Saint Etienne and
music journalist for NME, Melody Maker, Mojo, The Guardian and The Times, as well as writing three books on music and football; also has a career as a
DJ and as a producer of
record labels, and has collaborated on a series of films about London. His second publication, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Modern Pop, published by
Faber & Faber; third publication Let's Do It: The Birth of
Pop Music: A History, published by Pegasus.
Jake Wallis Simons; Editor of
the Jewish Chronicle, writer for
The Jerusalem Post,
The Times of Israel,
Haaretz, the Spectator, a commentator for Sky News and a broadcaster for
BBC Radio 4 and the World Service; was Associate Global Editor for the Daily Mail Online, and features writer for the Sunday Telegraph; also worked for the Times, The Guardian, CNN, POLITICO,
Newsweek and
La Repubblica; author of Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do About It, published by Little, Brown and Company
Jon Sopel,[839] journalist; presents The Politics Show on
BBC One; one of the lead presenters on News 24; voted 'Political Journalist of the Year' by Public Affairs Industry; shortlisted for 'National Presenter of the Year' at the
Royal Television Society television journalism awards 2011/2012.
Mark Steyn(/staɪn/; born 8 December 1959) is a British-Canadian author and a radio and television presenter.[840][841][842] He has written several books. He is
Anglican, but has Jewish maternal ancestry. Steyn's great-aunt was artist
Stella Steyn.[843] His mother's family was
Belgian.[844]
George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld, GBE (13 September 1919 – 20 January 2016) was a British publisher, philanthropist, and newspaper columnist. He was also a lifelong
Zionist[858] and renowned as a master networker. He was on good terms with popes, prime ministers and presidents and put his connections to good use for diplomatic and philanthropic ends;[859] founder of
Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Claudia Winkleman[869] (born 15 January 1972);[870] television presenter, radio personality, film critic and journalist; has written for The Sunday Times, The Independent, London paper Metro and has written opinion-led lifestyle journalism for Cosmopolitan , Tatler and The Independent; has also written for BBC, Daily Mail, The Mirror UK, The Sun, The Telegraph, Daily Express, The Times, and Radio Times[871]
Donald ZecOBE (12 March 1919 – 6 September 2021); author of over ten books, newspaper journalist and biographer; worked for the Daily Mirror for 40 years.[880]
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List of British Jewish writers includes writers (novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists, authors of scholarly texts and others) from the
United Kingdom and its
predecessor states who are or were
Jewish or of Jewish descent.
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
ConservativeZionist 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.[10] 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.
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.
Peter Benenson (born Peter James Henry Solomon; 31 July 1921 – 25 February 2005) British lawyer, writer, pamphleteer,
human rightsactivist and the founder of human rights group
Amnesty International (AI); accepted the
Pride of Britain Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2001[23] 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.[24]
J. D. Bernal[30] (/bərˈnɑːl/; 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.[31] 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.
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.
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.
Elias Canetti[69] 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
Alan Coren (27 June 1938 – 18 October 2007)[72] was an English
humourist, writer and
satirist who was a regular panellist on the
BBC radio
quizThe 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 (néeCohen; 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;[73] 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;[74][75] 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;[76] is a signatory of the
Independent Jewish Voices declaration, which is critical of Israeli policies towards the Palestinians.[77][78][79]
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.[citation needed]
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.
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.[109] There he developed his method of psychoanalytic group work [109] centred on group tensions and on transferences between members, and between members and the group.[110]
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."[116] 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.[117]
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.
Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman (born 8 March 1961) prolific author, political theorist, academic, social commentator, and
Labourlife 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;[148] 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,[149][150] dividing opinion among Labour commentators.;[151][152] 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".[153] 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.[154]
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";[169] went into broadcasting, joining
BBC Radio 4 counselling programme If You Think You've Got Problems;[170] also had her own television show on BBC1, Let's Talk it Over;[170] father was mayor of
Holborn , and brother
Sir Alan Greengross (born 1929) was Conservative member of
Greater London Council.[171]
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.
Rosalyn Higgins, Baroness HigginsGBE,KC (born 2 June 1937);[188] 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.
Howard Jacobson (born 1942) author;[192] has described himself as "a Jewish
Jane Austen" (in response to being described as "the English Philip Roth"),[193] 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."[194] 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".[195]
Tony Judt (/dʒʌt/JUT; 2 January 1948 – 6 August 2010)[203] 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.[204] 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.[205]
Hans Keller (11 March 1919 – 6 November 1985) was a
Viennese Jewish British musician and prolific writer, who made significant contributions to
musicology and music criticism; best known for his appearance on TV show The Look of the Week in which he interviewed
Syd Barrett and
Roger Waters. Keller was generally puzzled by, or even contemptuous of, the group and its music, opening with the comment "why has it all got to be so terribly loud?"
Melanie Klein ( 30 March 1882 – 22 September 1960),
Austrian Jewish British author and
psychoanalyst known for work in
child analysis; was primary figure in development of
object relations theory, suggesting that pre-verbal
existential anxiety in infancy catalysed formation of unconscious, resulting in unconscious splitting of the world into good and bad
idealizations; how child resolves that split depends on constitution of child and the character of nurturing the child experiences, and quality of resolution can inform presence, absence, and/or type of distresses a person experiences later in life.[234]
Nick Lowles, founder of
Hope Not Hate and former editor of the
anti-fascistSearchlight (magazine), backed by various politicians and celebrities several trade unions. Knowles is the author of a number of books on football violence, right wing groups and
anti-Semitism in Britain.He was an freelance investigative journalist, working in television, including on
BBC Panorama,
World in Action, Channel Four Dispatches and MacIntyre Undercover.
Adam LeBor (1961); author, journalist; foreign correspondent from 1991; now based in London; also lived in
Ramat HaShofetkibbutz,
Israel, Berlin and Paris; reported from the former Yugoslavia;[247][248] covered collapse of Communism and Yugoslav wars for The Independent;currently contributes to The Times, the Financial Times, where he reviews thrillers, The Critic, Monocle; works as editorial trainer and writing coach at Financial Times, Citywire and Monocle; former contributor to Harry's Place; has written eight non-fiction books, including Hitler's Secret Bankers, shortlisted for the
Orwell Prize, a biography of Slobodan Milosevic, and City of Oranges, an account of Jewish and Arab families in Jaffa, shortlisted for the Jewish Quarterly Prize.[citation needed]
Sir
Sidney Lee (1859–1926),[249] biographer and literary scholar
Amy Levy (1861–1889), poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist
Deborah Levy (born 6 August 1959); novelist, playwright and poet of South African and
Lithuanian Jewish ancestry; her plays were staged by the
Royal Shakespeare Company; novels included Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography and Billy & Girl; recent fiction has included the
Booker-shortlisted novels Swimming Home[252] and Hot Milk, as well as the
Booker-longlisted The Man Who Saw Everything and short-story collection Black Vodka;The Guardian ranked The Cost of Living number 84 in list of "The 100 best books of the 21st century".[253]
David Littman (activist) (4 July 1933 – 20 May 2012) author of over five books and scores of monographs and academic papers and activist[267][268] best known for organising the departure of Jewish children from Morocco; then worked as
lobbyist at the United Nations in Geneva and was also historian.[269][270] He was married to
Bat Ye'or.
Emanuel Litvinoff,[271] novelist. (5 May 1915 – 24 September 2011)[272] was a British writer and well-known figure in Anglo-Jewish literature, known for novels, short stories, poetry, plays and human rights campaigning. Litvinoff became aware of plight of persecuted Soviet Jews, and started worldwide campaign against this persecution.[273] Due to Litvinoff's efforts, prominent Jewish groups in United States became aware of issue, and well-being of Soviet Jews became cause for a worldwide campaign, eventually leading to mass migration of Jews from the Soviet Union to Israel and the United States.[274] For this he has been described by
Meir Rosenne, former Israeli ambassador to the United States, as "one of the greatest unsung heroes of the twentieth century... who won in the fight against an evil empire" and that "thousands and thousands of Russian Jews owe him their freedom".[275]
Naftali Loewenthal, member of the
ChabadHasidic community;[276][277] main area of study is
Hasidism and
Jewish Mysticism; professor in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at
University College London; director of the Chabad Research Unit, a division of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in
United Kingdom;[278] author of Communicating the Infinite: The Emergence of the Habad School (1990) ;[279] also authored Hasidism Beyond Modernity: Essays in Habad Thought and History (2019) as well as many scholarly articles and publications on the
Chabad mysticism;[280] also extensively written on history of
ChabadHasidic women.[281]
Madeleine Masson Rayner (née Levy; 23 April 1912 – 23 August 2007), author of plays, film scripts, novels, memoirs and biographies; best known for her biography of the highly respected and decorated war heroine, Polish agent of the British
Special Operations Executive,
Krystyna Skarbek.[283]
Roy Masters (commentator) (born 2 April 1928, died 22 April 2021); English-born American author of over twenty self-help pop psychology books, radio personality, businessman and hypnotist.
Simon Sebag Montefiore, author and
Haaretz journalist;[296]Jerusalem: The Biography was a number one non-fiction Sunday Times bestseller and a global bestseller and won The Jewish Book of the Year Award from the
Jewish Book Council;[297][298] descended from the banker Sir
Joseph Sebag-Montefiore, the nephew and heir of the wealthy philanthropist Sir
Moses Montefiore,[299] considered by some "the most important Jew of the 19th century".[300] Simon's mother was Phyllis April Jaffé (1927–2019) from the
Lithuanian branch of the
Jaffe family. The Montefiore family are descended from a line of wealthy
Sephardi Jews who were diplomats and bankers all over Europe and who originated from Morocco and Italy.
Lewis Namier (/ˈneɪmiər/;[315] 27 June 1888 – 19 August 1960), British historian of
Polish-Jewish ancestry; descendent of Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon Zalman,(Hebrew: ר' אליהו בן שלמה זלמן ) known as the
Vilna Gaon; author of over twenty
scholarly texts and authoritative
monographs on
sociopolitical typology and
geopolitical analysis; held positions with
Propaganda Department (1915–17), the Department of Information (1917–18) and with
Political Intelligence Department of Foreign Office (1918–20); following defeat of Germany in World War One, Namier joined British delegation at
Versailles Peace Conference of 1919; later Namier, who was a long-time
Zionist, worked as political secretary for the
Jewish Agency in Palestine (1929–31) and was close friend and associate of
Chaim Weizmann; active in
Zionist groups, lobbying British government to allow creation of Jewish Fighting Force in
Mandate of Palestine and from 1933 was engaged in efforts on behalf of Jewish refugees from Germany. Namier used
prosopography or collective
biography of every Member of Parliament (MP) and peer who sat in the British Parliament in the latter 18th century to reveal that local interests, not national ones, often determined how parliamentarians voted. As former patient of
Sigmund Freud, Namier was a believer in
psychohistory.
Daniel Pick ( born 1960 ); historian,
psychoanalyst, university teacher, writer, broadcaster; was recipient of a senior Investigator grant from the
Wellcome Trust and led research group at
Birkbeck exploring history of the
human sciences and 'psy' professions during the
Cold War ; project entitled 'Hidden Persuaders': Brainwashing, Culture, Clinical Knowledge and the Cold War Human Sciences, c. 1950–1990';[338] was fellow and training analyst of the
British Psychoanalytical Society and author of numerous articles and several books on modern cultural history, psychoanalysis, and history of the human sciences. These include Faces of Degeneration (CUP, 1989), The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind (OUP, 2012). and Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control (Profile/Wellcome Collection, 2022) He has written, and taught at
London University for many years, on aspects of the history of
psychoanalysis and
psychiatry,
modernism, the relationship of
Freudian thought to
historiography,
Victorian evolutionary theory,
eugenics and
social Darwinism, ideas of war and peace,
fin-de-siècle literature, and the history of cultural attitudes to crime and madness. He is an associate editor of
History Workshop Journal. Pick has presented for the BBC, including 'The Unconscious Life of Bombs',
BBC Radio 4 (December 2017);[339] 'Dictators on the Couch', BBC Radio 4 (June 2017);[340] and 'Freud for our Times', BBC Radio 4 (December 2016).[341]
Harold Pinter,[342] writer, playwright; Pinter signed the mission statement of Jews for Justice for Palestinians in 2005 and its full-page advertisement, "What Is Israel Doing? A Call by Jews in Britain", published in The Times on 6 July 2006, and he was a patron of the Palestine Festival of Literature. In April 2008, Pinter signed the statement "We're not celebrating Israel's anniversary". The statement noted: "We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state founded on terrorism, massacres and the dispossession of another people from their land.", "We will celebrate when Arab and Jew live as equals in a peaceful Middle East"
David Renton (born 1972), author and
barrister, was member of the
Socialist Workers Party (SWP); has published books on fascism,
anti-fascism and politics of left, notably Labour's Antisemitism Crisis: What the Left Got Wrong and How to Learn from it (Routledge, 2021) on presumed anti-Semitism in the British Labour Party; has also written for The
Jewish Chronicle; Renton is grandson of shoe designer
Kurt Geiger of
Viennese Jewish ancestry, and related to Conservative MP
Tim Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry; David Renton was educated at private boarding school
Eton College where he became member of
Labour Party; later studied history at
St John's College, University of Oxford; in 2021, Renton represented Stan Keable of
Labour Against the Witchhunt, at Employment Appeal Tribunal, which held that Keable was unfairly dismissed for events occurring at the "Enough is Enough" protests against Jeremy Corbyn. The EAT upheld an order that Keable should be reinstated.[356]
Adele Rose (8 December 1933 – 28 December 2020)[367] was an English television writer. She was the longest-serving scriptwriter for the soap opera Coronation Street, writing 457 scripts over a period of 37 years from 1961, and was the first woman to write for the show. She also originated the series Byker Grove (1989–2006), aimed at teenagers.
Nikolas Rose is a British
sociologist and social theorist. He is Distinguished Honorary Professor at the Research School of Social Sciences,[372] in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the
Australian National University and Honorary
Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College London.[373]
Andrew Roth (23 April 1919 – 12 August 2010);
biographer and
journalist known for his compilation of Parliamentary Profiles, a directory of biographies of British
Members of Parliament ; compiled profiles of the personnel of the
British Parliament and assessed their character traits, history, opinions and psychological drives; The Daily Telegraph called Roth a "Westminster institution".[375] He continued updating this publication to 2010, and it with its research documents and notes, including about half a million press cuttings, is now archived at the
Bishopsgate Institute.[376][377]
William Rothenstein (29 January 1872 – 14 February 1945), painter, printmaker, draughtsman, lecturer, writer on art; wrote several critical books and pamphlets, including Goya; the first English monograph on the artist), A Plea for a Wider Use of Artists & Craftsmen and Whither Painting; published three volumes of memoirs: Men and Memories, Vol I and II and Since Fifty.[378]Men and Memories Volume I includes anecdotes about
Oscar Wilde and many other friends of Rothenstein's, including Max Beerbohm, James Whistler, Paul Verlaine, Edgar Degas, and John Singer Sargent.[379]
Anne-Marie Sandler (December 15, 1925 – July 25, 2018),
psychologist and
psychoanalyst noted for her clinical observation of the relationship dynamic between blind infants and their mothers in a project spearheaded by
Anna Freud.[337] whilst majoring in psychology at the
University of Geneva, was selected by
Jean Piaget as research assistant in his project with
UNESCO in Switzerland, which focused on the development of children's perception of homeland and foreignness;[386] highly regarded for her scholarly work "Beyond Eight Months Anxiety," published in 1977, where she reconceptualised the
stranger anxiety experienced by infants as a condition that is also present in her adult clients;[387][156] president of the European Psychoanalytical Federation (EPF) and president of BPS in 1990; appeared on television discussion programme After Dark, alongside among others
Clive Ponting,
Colin Wallace,
T. E. Utley and
Peter Hain; held prominent positions in the Anna Freud Centre; also active in the
International Psychoanalytical Association.[337][156]
Colin Shindler, first professor of Israel Studies in the UK; founding chairman of the European Association of Israeli Studies (EAIS); author of ten books including History Of Modern Israel(
Cambridge University Press); main interests lie in evolution of Israeli Right, changes in the approach of the British and European Left towards Israel since 1948 and emigration movement of Soviet Jews between 1917 and 1991; Israel and the European Left: Between Solidarity and Delegitimisation (Continuum/Bloomsbury) was one of first books to examine history of relationship between the British Left and Israel; also wrote Vladimir Jabotinsky,
Menahem Begin and
Avraham Stern, The Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odesa to Hebron (Cambridge University Press) which was awarded gold medal in The Washington Institute's for Near East Policy's Book Prize competition; writes for the
Jewish Chronicle,
Jerusalem Post,
Haaretz,
History Today,
Times Literary Supplement; author of over 650 articles and reviews on
Israel and
Jewish political history.
Daniel Snowman (born 1938), writer,
historian, lecturer and broadcaster on
social and
cultural history. His career has spanned the academic world and the
BBC, while his books include Kissing Cousins (a comparative study of British and American social attitudes); critical portraits of the
Amadeus Quartet and of
Plácido Domingo; a study of the cultural impact of The Hitler Émigrés; an anthology of essays about today's leading historians; The Gilded Stage: A Social History of Opera and Just Passing Through – Interactions with the World 1938 – 2021; born in
London, his parents coming from
Anglo-Jewish families with roots in 19th-century Eastern Europe.
Flora Solomon, (néeBenenson; 28 September 1895 – 18 July 1984)[432] was an influential
Zionist.[433] The first woman hired to improve working conditions at
Marks & Spencer in London,[434] Solomon was later instrumental in the exposure of the spy Kim Philby.[435] She was the mother of
Peter Benenson, founder of
Amnesty International and founder of Blackmore Press, a British printing house. Her life was described in her autobiography A Woman's Way, written in collaboration with Barnet Litvinoff and published in 1984 by
Simon & Schuster. The work was also titled Baku to Baker Street: The Memoirs of Flora Solomon. Solomon campaigned for
subsidised medical services, directly influencing the
Labour concept of the welfare state and the creation of the British
National Health Service in 1948
Muriel Spark,[436] novelist (Jewish father, possible Jewish mother; converted to Catholicism later in life)[437]
Bob Stanley (born Robert Andrew Shukman; 25 December 1964); musician, journalist, author, film producer; member of
indie pop group
Saint Etienne and
music journalist for NME, Melody Maker, Mojo, The Guardian and The Times, as well as writing three books on music and football; also has a career as a
DJ and as a producer of
record labels, and has collaborated on a series of films about London. His second publication, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Modern Pop, published by
Faber & Faber; third publication Let's Do It: The Birth of
Pop Music: A History, published by Pegasus.
George Steiner,[438]FBA (April 23, 1929 – February 3, 2020)[439][440] author, literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist and educator;[441] wrote about relationship between language, literature and society, as well as impact of
the Holocaust;[442] ranked "among the great minds in today's literary world";[439] was Professor
University of Geneva (1974–94), Professor of Comparative Literature and Fellow in the
University of Oxford (1994–95), Professor of
Poetry in
Harvard University (2001–02) and Fellow of
Churchill College, Cambridge.[438] Steiner believed that nationalism is too inherently violent to satisfy the moral prerogative of Judaism, having said "that because of what we are, there are things we can't do "[170] and has suggested that Nazism was Europe's revenge on the Jews for inventing
conscience;[170] father of
David Steiner (academic);[443] executive director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy; [444] appointed to the Practitioner Council at the Hoover Institute,
Stanford University.
Jack Straw (born 3 August 1946), Christian, of Eastern European Jewish ancestry; served in Cabinet under Labour governments of
Tony Blair and
Gordon Brown as
Home Secretary and
Foreign Secretary; has written for The Guardian, Daily Mail, El País, The Independent, The Mirror UK, The Sun, The Telegraph, Financial Times, The Times, POLITICO, LSE Connect, Prospect Magazine, The New European and is author or co-author of the following books; The English Job: Understanding Iran and Why It Distrusts Britain (2019)
ISBN978-1785903991; Implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998: Minutes of Evidence, Wednesday 14 March 2001 (2001)
ISBN0-10-442701-9; Making Prisons Work: Prison Reform Trust Annual Lecture (1998)
ISBN0-946209-44-8; Future of Policing and Criminal Justice (Institute of Police & Criminological Studies Occasional Paper S.) (1996)
ISBN1-86137-087-3 and Policy and Ideology (1993)
ISBN0-9521163-0-8
John Strawson, author of Encountering Islamic law, Partitioning Palestine: Legal Fundamentalism in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict and editor of Law after Ground Zero and Tracking the Postcolonial in Law; also law professor at the
University of East London School of Law, teaching
International law and
Middle East Studies;[446][447] specialises in law and
postcolonialism, with particular reference to middle east, Islam and international law;[448] previous posts include visiting positions at
Birzeit University (Palestine) and the Institute of Social Studies (The Hague Netherlands);[449] researches encounter between western and Islamic law;[450] is Director of Law Postgraduate Programmes at University of East London, and Director of the
Centre on Human Rights in Conflict;[451] believes use of term
apartheid to describe Israel or Israeli policies does not apply to Israel, and use of analogy is unhistorical, and unhelpful.[447]
Adam Sutcliffe; Professor of European History at
King's College London, journalist writing on Jewish history and identity for Times Literary Supplement, author of What Are Jews For: History, Peoplehood, and Purpose (Princeton University Press, 2020), Judaism and Enlightenment; coeditor of Philosemitism in History, The Cambridge History of Judaism: The Early Modern World, and History, Memory and Public Life: The Past in the Present.
William Sutcliffe, novelist; New Boy (1986), Are You Experienced? (1997), Whatever Makes You Happy (2008), and The Wall (2013), set in an Israeli colony
Michael Tugendhat (born 21 October 1944),;[465] retired
High Court judge ; was High Court's senior media judge;[466] author and editor of The Law of Privacy and the MediaOxford University Press; Commercial Fraud: Civil Liability, Human Rights, and Money LaunderingOxford University Press; Les droits du genre humain : la liberté en France et en Angleterre (1159-1793), [The rights of mankind : liberty in France and England (1159-1793)] (with Elizabeth de Montlaur Martin, 2021),
ISBN978-2-36517-110-6, Société de Législation comparée, Paris (awarded by the French Académie des sciences morales et politiques the Prix Édouard Bonnefous 2022); Liberty Intact: Human Rights in English Law (2016)
Oxford University Press and Fighting for Freedom? (2017),
ISBN978-1-911128-49-6,
Bright Blue (organisation)
Natasha Walter (born 20 January 1967),
feminist writer, novelist, human rights activist, founder of charity Women for Refugee Women; father was
Nicolas Walter, an anarchist and
secular humanist writer;[468][469] of
German Jewish ancestry; journalist forVogue magazine; Deputy Literary Editor of The Independent; columnist and feature writer for The Guardian; appear regularly on
BBC2's Newsnight Review and
Radio 4's Front Row; was judge on the
Booker Prize and was a judge on the Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize); was the founder in 2006 of the charity
Women for Refugee Women, where she was the director until 2021. The charity supports women who seek
asylum to tell their stories and challenges injustices they experience.[468] She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2013.[470]
Eyal Weizman (born 1970) is a British Israeli architect and author of over twenty books and academic papers, mostly on the Israeli occupation of
Palestinian land and the architecture of the wall around Gaza. He is the director of the research agency
Forensic Architecture at
Goldsmiths, University of London where he is Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and a founding director there of the Centre for Research Architecture[476] at the department of Visual Cultures. In 2019 he was elected Fellow of the
British Academy.
Anna Mendelssohn (born Anna Mendleson,[509] 1948 – 15 November 2009), who wrote under the name Grace Lake, was prolific writer, poet, artist and political activist with
The Angry Brigade; was inspired by the Paris
student risings in May 1968, and became political radical in Britain; later studied poetry at
St Edmund's College, Cambridge, devoting her life to poetry and art; became opposed to technology, disliking judgments based on rationality in favour of those based on artistic judgment.[510]
Ben Elton (born 3 May 1959) comedian, actor, author, playwright, lyricist and director; was a part of London's
alternative comedy movement of the 1980s and writer on the sitcoms The Young Ones and Blackadder, as well as stand-up comedian on stage and television; style in the 1980s was left-wing
political satire; Elton is cousin of singer
Olivia Newton-John;[520][521][522] Elton's father is from a
German-Jewish family and Elton's mother, who was raised in the
Church of England, is of English background;[523][524] has published 17 novels and written numerous rock operas and musicals.
Harold Pinter,[342] playwright; Pinter signed the mission statement of Jews for Justice for Palestinians in 2005 and its full-page advertisement, "What Is Israel Doing? A Call by Jews in Britain", published in The Times on 6 July 2006, and he was a patron of the Palestine Festival of Literature. In April 2008, Pinter signed the statement "We're not celebrating Israel's anniversary". The statement noted: "We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state founded on terrorism, massacres and the dispossession of another people from their land.", "We will celebrate when Arab and Jew live as equals in a peaceful Middle East"
Jack Rosenthal (8 September 1931 – 29 May 2004) was an English
playwright. He wrote 129 early episodes of the
ITV soap opera Coronation Street and over 150
screenplays, including original TV plays, feature films, and adaptations.
Gary Sinyor (born
Manchester, England, 1962), film director, playwright, producer, and writer.[535] His first play NotMoses opened in London's West End; wrote, directed and produced a psychological thriller The Unseen; has also written for The
Jewish Chronicle,
Jewish News,
Times of Israel and The Guardian.
David Aaronovitch,
Neoconservative and
New Labour,
hawkish pro
Zionist journalist; wrote No Excuses for Terror, documentary film that "criticizes how the anti-Israel views of the far-left and far-right have permeated the mainstream media and political discourse;"[541]Blaming the Jews, film that evaluates anti-Semitism in Arab media and culture,God and the Politicians, film that looks at increasing religious influence on politics in the UK, Voodoo Histories: The Role of Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History, Jonathan Cape, 2009,
ISBN978-0-224-07470-4[542] Published in the US in 2010 by
Riverhead Books,
ISBN978-1-59448-895-5
Rafael Behr (born June 1974[550]), of South African Jewish ancestry; columnist at The Guardian,Financial Times; Jewish Chronicle; former political editor of the New Statesman.[551] Behr was named political commentator of the year at the 2014 Comment Awards;[552] in 2019, he was shortlisted for same award again.[553] Before becoming a journalist, Behr worked as a political risk analyst reporting on countries of the former Soviet Union.Since 2020 he has presented Politics on the Couch, an occasional podcast about the psychology of politics.[554]
Amber de Botton, head of UK news at
ITV News; was previously head of politics at ITV and deputy head of politics at
Sky News, after starting career as a parliamentary reporter; currently Prime Minister
Rishi Sunak's director of communications.
Martin Bright (born 5 June 1966); worked for the
BBC World Service and The Guardian; political editor of New Statesman, The Spectator,The Jewish Chronicle's political editor and worked at
Tony Blair Faith Foundation; has closely monitored rise of Muslim extremism, terrorist attacks in Britain and abroad, and aspects of British governmental relations with Muslim community in the United Kingdom; founded
New Deal of the Mind, a charitable company to promote employment in creative fields and working with organisations, government and all political parties. In 2001, wrote "The Great
Koran Con Trick" in the New Statesman and in
Channel Four documentary, Who Speaks for Muslims? (2002), and When Progressives Treat with Reactionaries: The British State's flirtation with radical Islamism (2006), a report for the Policy Exchange, Bright examined issues of contemporary Muslim community in the United Kingdom.[563]
Dave Cohen (writer); writer for television and radio as well as contributing columns to NME, Chortle and The Huffington Post.;[577] has written for
BBC Radio 4 including The Best of British, Dead Ringers which won a Sony Gold Award 2001, The Sunday Format, The News Quiz and 15 Minute Musical[578] which he was also a co-creator and won the 2009 Writer's Guild Best Radio Comedy Show, to name a few. He also wrote for
BBC Radio 5's The Treatment and They Came From Nowhere; has written for Rory Bremner Show, Spitting Image, Eleven O'Clock Show, Not Going Out and My Family.[579] He has been a long time writer for Have I Got News For You and Horrible Histories which has won a variety of awards including Best Sketch Show, Best Comedy Show at the Children's BAFTAs and Best British Comedy Show.[580]
Matt Frei (born 26 November 1963) is a British-German television news journalist and writer, formerly the
Washington, D.C.correspondent for Channel 4 News. He is now the channel's Europe editor and presenter of the evening news.[594]
Gerry Gable (born 27 January 1937); political activist; was editor of Searchlight magazine; was member of
Communist Party of Great Britain; worked as runner on Communist Party's Daily Worker newspaper; left the Communist Party because of their anti-Israel policy and because "first and foremost [he has] always been a Jewish trade unionist";[595] was commissioned by BBC to produce research for a
BBC Panorama programme "
Maggie's Militant Tendency";[596] was convicted in January 1964 of burglary of historian
David Irving’s flat[597]
Jemima Goldsmith (born 30 January 1974) screenwriter,[604] television, film and documentary producer and the founder of Instinct Productions, a television production company;[605] formerly journalist and editor of The New Statesman, served as the European
editor-at-large for the American magazine Vanity Fair.[606][607]
John GrossFRSL (12 March 1935 – 10 January 2011)[638][639][640] ; editor of The Times Literary Supplement , senior book editor and book critic on The New York Times,[641] theatre critic for The Sunday Telegraph ; assistant editor on Encounter ; literary editor of The New Statesman and Spectator; author of The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters, James Joyce , Shylock: Four Hundred Years in the Life of a Legend ; works as editor and anthologist include After Shakespeare: Writing inspired by the world’s greatest author , The Oxford Book of Aphorisms, The Oxford Book of Essays , The Oxford Book of Comic Verse, The New Oxford Book of English Prose , The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes , The Modern Movement, Dickens and the Twentieth Century, and The Oxford Book of Parodies; was trustee of London's
National Portrait Gallery; served on the
English Heritage advisory committee on
blue plaques; advised British government on the award of public honours[642] He served as chairman of the judges of the
Booker Prize,[643][644] ; member of
The Literary Society; director of Times Newspaper holdings, the publishers of The Times and The Sunday Times[645]; married to
Miriam Gross, literary editor; had two children,
Tom Gross and
Susanna Gross.
Tom Gross journalist, international affairs commentator,[662] human rights campaigner specialising in the Middle East[663] Gross was formerly a foreign correspondent for the London Sunday Telegraph and New York Daily News; works as an opinion journalist and has written for both Arab[664][665] and Israeli[666] newspapers, as well as European and American ones, both liberal[667] and conservative.[668] He also appears as a commentator on the BBC in English,[669] BBC Arabic,[670] and various Middle Eastern and other networks;[671][672] has been critical of the
BBC, arguing that their Middle East coverage is often slanted against
Israel,[673][674] and has subjected the coverage of Reuters,[675]The Guardian[676] and CNN[677] and what he termed the "cult of
Rachel Corrie"[678] to scrutiny; has also been critical of The New York Times, both for their general foreign coverage,[679] and historically for what he terms their "lamentable record of not covering the
Holocaust."[680]
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.
Afua Hirsch (born 1981);[384] of Ghanaian and
German Jewish paternal lineage; has worked as a journalist for The Guardian newspaper, and Education Editor for
Sky News; author of Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging; was on panel of judges for
Booker Prize for Fiction; was included in
2020 edition of the Powerlist of the most influential Britons from African/African-Caribbean heritage;[683] was cited as one of top 100 most influential Africans by New African;[684] in Powerlist 2021, she made top 10, ranking ninth most influential person of African or
African Caribbean heritage in United Kingdom;[685][686] Hirsh is great-niece of noted scholar
Peter Hirsch.
Isabel Kershner ; British-born Israeli journalist and author, who began reporting from
Jerusalem for The New York Times ; has worked as senior Middle East editor for The Jerusalem Report magazine; also written for The New Republic and has provided commentary on Middle East affairs on
BBC Radio; latest book is "The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle for its Inner Soul"; married to South African born Israeli author Hirsh Goodman, an employee of the
Institute for National Security Studies, which is involved in promoting a positive image of Israel, and which Kershner often relies on as a source.[690][691]
Ian Katz (born 9 February 1968) of South African Jewish origin;[697] journalist and broadcasting executive currently Chief Content Officer at Channel 4, overseeing all editorial decision making and commissioning across
Channel 4's linear channels, streaming services and social media.[698] Katz originally followed a career in print journalism, and was a deputy editor of The Guardian until 2013.[699] He then became the editor of the Newsnight current affairs programme on
BBC Two,[700] a role which he left in late 2017 to join Channel 4.[701]
Dominic Lawson, Former editor of The Spectator magazine and Sunday Telegraph newspaper, has been writing column for The Independent since 2006; also writes for the Sunday Times[711]
Norman Lebrecht (born 11 July 1948) is a British
music journalist and author who specialises in
classical music.[713] Lebrecht worked at the
Kol Yisrael news department, part of the
Israel Broadcasting Authority.[714] He returned to London in 1972,[714] where he was a news executive
Visnews Ltd. from 1973 to 1978;was a special contributor to The Sunday Times until 1991;[715] in 2019, Lebrecht published Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847–1947. It was published by Oneworld (UK) in October 2019 and by Simon & Schuster (USA) in December 2019.
Bernard Levin (19 August 1928 – 7 August 2004) was an English journalist, author and broadcaster, described by The Times as "the most famous journalist of his day".
Tim Lott(born 23 January 1956); author and journalist for The Guardian. He worked as a music journalist and ran a magazine publishing business, launching Flexipop magazine in 1980 with ex-Record Mirror journalist Barry Cain.
Monty Meth (3 March 1926 – 14 March 2021)[746] was a British journalist who was editor of the
Daily Mail; was member of the
Young Communist League;appointed
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the
2007 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the communities of Enfield and Bethnal Green.;[747] author of Here to Stay: A Study of Good Practices in the Employment of Coloured Workers 1972; Brothers to all Men? A Report on Trade Union Actions and Attitudes on Race Relations.
Hella PickCBE (24 April 1929 – 4 April 2024) ; in 1960, was UN correspondent of The Guardian newspaper, tutored by chief US correspondent
Alistair Cooke; awarded
CBE in 2000 ; was Arts & Culture Programme Director at
Institute for Strategic Dialogue, an independent think-tank based in London;[763] author ofSimon Wiesenthal: A Life in Search of Justice, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996 ; Guilty Victim - Austria from the Holocaust to
Haider, I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2000 and Invisible Walls, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021
Eve PollardEvelyn, Lady Lloyd, (néePollard, formerly Winkleman, born 25 December 1943); has been the editor of several
tabloid newspapers; was fashion editor at Honey magazine; also worked for Daily Mirror;[766] was launch editor-in-chief of Elle magazine in the US and edited Sunday magazine for the News of the World and You magazine for the Mail on Sunday; also worked in television as features editor of
TV-am (1982–1983) and devised Frocks on the Box for ITV contractor
TVS.;[766] often appeared on radio and TV; was regular participant in Through the Keyhole; was a guest panellist on the talk show Loose Women; in 2016, was appointed the first Chair of Reporters without Borders in the UK. In June 2019, was awarded the prestigious Journalist Laureate prize by the London Press Club. She has been a member, appointed in 1999, of the
Competition Commission's Newspaper Takeover Panel.[767] Pollard was appointed
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the
2008 Birthday Honours List for services to journalism.[768]
Richard Quest(born 9 March 1962) journalist and
barrister working as news anchor for
CNN International; also an editor-at-large of
CNN Business; anchors Quest Means Business, the five-times-weekly business program and fronts the CNN shows Business Traveller,[citation needed]The Express and Quest's World of Wonder; Quest wrote the book, The Vanishing of Flight MH370: The True Story of the Hunt for the Missing Malaysian Plane, published by
Penguin Random House on 8 March 2016.[777]
Hugo Rifkind(born 30 March 1977);[780] columnist for The Times; presenter on
Times Radio; regular guest on The News Quiz, on
BBC Radio 4; contributes to GQ;[781] son of
Conservative Party politician
Sir Malcolm Rifkind; Columnist of the Year in the 2011 Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards, and Media Commentator of the Year in the same awards in 2012; highly commended in the Best of Humour category at the Society of Editors' Press Awards;[782] was
Stonewall's Journalist of the Year; also named Best Grooming Journalist in the P&G Beauty Awards;[783] In 2015, at the Comment Awards, he was named Arts, Culture and Entertainment Commentator of The Year.[784] in 2017, he won both Best of Humour and Critic of the Year at the Society of Editors' Press Awards.[785]
Steve Rosenberg (born 5 April 1968); was part of
CBS News crew covering
first war in Chechnya; journalist for
BBC News and has been the BBC's
Moscow correspondent since 2003, except for stint as
Berlin correspondent between 2006 and 2010; in 2022, was appointed BBC's
Russia editor.
Joshua RozenbergKC (hon) (born 1950), British
solicitor,
legal affairs commentator,
journalist; husband of
Melanie Phillips, began career in journalism in 1975 at the BBC [794] where he launched Law in Action on
BBC Radio 4 in 1984.[795] At BBC he worked as producer, reporter and legal correspondent; in 2000 left to join The Daily Telegraph as legal affairs editor,[796] where he remained until 2008.[794][797] After leaving the Telegraph wrote for Evening Standard;[798] writes for Law Society Gazette and The Critic; wrote for The Guardian's online law page from 2010 to 2016; returned to the BBC to present Law in Action, nearly 25 years after leaving the radio programme.[795][799] He continues to be seen on BBC Television News as a legal affairs analyst. In January 2016, was made an honorary QC.[800]
Rachel Shabi; British journalist and author; contributing writer to The Guardian and the author of Not the Enemy, Israel's Jews from Arab Lands, which argued that
Israel has discriminated against and culturally stripped its population of
Jews from
Arab and
Muslim countries. The book received a
National Jewish Book Award.Born in Israel to Iraqi Jewish parents[816] in
Ramat Gan,[817] Shabi grew up in the UK.
Samantha Simmonds (born 1972 or 1973[818]); newsreader, television presenter and journalist; was a
news anchor for
Sky News until July 2016; returned to presenting for
BBC News in March 2017; has also written for
Jewish News, MSN (US), Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, The Sun, The Telegraph, Yahoo News Australia, Evening Standard,
Times of Israel, Good Housekeeping (UK), HuffPost UK, Women's Health, Women's Health (UK), TV Times, Glamour (UK), Celebs Now,
The Jewish Chronicle, Woman Magazine.
Bob Stanley (born Robert Andrew Shukman; 25 December 1964); musician, journalist, author, film producer; member of
indie pop group
Saint Etienne and
music journalist for NME, Melody Maker, Mojo, The Guardian and The Times, as well as writing three books on music and football; also has a career as a
DJ and as a producer of
record labels, and has collaborated on a series of films about London. His second publication, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Modern Pop, published by
Faber & Faber; third publication Let's Do It: The Birth of
Pop Music: A History, published by Pegasus.
Jake Wallis Simons; Editor of
the Jewish Chronicle, writer for
The Jerusalem Post,
The Times of Israel,
Haaretz, the Spectator, a commentator for Sky News and a broadcaster for
BBC Radio 4 and the World Service; was Associate Global Editor for the Daily Mail Online, and features writer for the Sunday Telegraph; also worked for the Times, The Guardian, CNN, POLITICO,
Newsweek and
La Repubblica; author of Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do About It, published by Little, Brown and Company
Jon Sopel,[839] journalist; presents The Politics Show on
BBC One; one of the lead presenters on News 24; voted 'Political Journalist of the Year' by Public Affairs Industry; shortlisted for 'National Presenter of the Year' at the
Royal Television Society television journalism awards 2011/2012.
Mark Steyn(/staɪn/; born 8 December 1959) is a British-Canadian author and a radio and television presenter.[840][841][842] He has written several books. He is
Anglican, but has Jewish maternal ancestry. Steyn's great-aunt was artist
Stella Steyn.[843] His mother's family was
Belgian.[844]
George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld, GBE (13 September 1919 – 20 January 2016) was a British publisher, philanthropist, and newspaper columnist. He was also a lifelong
Zionist[858] and renowned as a master networker. He was on good terms with popes, prime ministers and presidents and put his connections to good use for diplomatic and philanthropic ends;[859] founder of
Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Claudia Winkleman[869] (born 15 January 1972);[870] television presenter, radio personality, film critic and journalist; has written for The Sunday Times, The Independent, London paper Metro and has written opinion-led lifestyle journalism for Cosmopolitan , Tatler and The Independent; has also written for BBC, Daily Mail, The Mirror UK, The Sun, The Telegraph, Daily Express, The Times, and Radio Times[871]
Donald ZecOBE (12 March 1919 – 6 September 2021); author of over ten books, newspaper journalist and biographer; worked for the Daily Mirror for 40 years.[880]
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