Writers and Poets
- David Aizman, writer and playwright
- Vasily Aksyonov, writer (Jewish mother)
- Sholom Aleichem, Yiddish-language writer
- Isaac Asimov, science fiction writer
- Isaac Babel, writer
- Eduard Bagritsky, poet
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Hebrew-language writer
- Isaac Dov Berkowitz, writer
- Hayyim Nahman Bialik, poet
- Rachel Bluwstein, poet
- Yosef Haim Brenner, Hebrew-language writer
- Osip Brik, author
- Joseph Brodsky, Russian-language poet, Nobel Prize (1987)
- Sasha Cherny, poet
- Yuli Daniel, writer
- Michael Dorfman, journalist and esseyst
- David Edelstadt, Yiddish-language anarchist poet
- Ilya Ehrenburg, writer
- Natan Eidelman, writer
- Alter Esselin, poet, carpenter
- Alexander Galich, playwright poet
- Asher Hirsch Ginsberg (Ahad Ha'Am), Hebrew-language writer
- Lydia Ginzburg, writer
- Yevgenia Ginzburg, writer
- Jacob Gordin, American playwright
- Leon Gordon, writer
- Vasily Grossman, writer
- Igor Guberman, writer
- Peretz Hirshbein, playwright
- Ilya Ilf, writer
- Vera Inber, poet
- Lev Kassil, writer
- Veniamin Kaverin, writer (Jewish father)
- A.M. Klein, poet
- Pavel Kogan, poet
- Lev Kopelev, author and dissident
- Arkady Kotz, poet
- Lazar Lagin, writer
- Vladimir Lantsberg, writer
- H. Leivick, dramatist
- Benedikt Livshits, writer
- Nadezhda Mandelstam, writer
- Osip Mandelstam, poet
- Samuil Marshak, poet
- Yunna Morits, poet
- Semen Nadson, poet (Jewish father)
- Boris Pasternak, writer, Nobel Prize (1958)
- Yakov Perelman, writer
- David Pinski, writer
- Lev Razgon, writer, gulag inmate for 17 years
- Yevgeny Rein, poet
- Ayn Rand, writer (born Alisa Rosenbaum)
- Anatoli Rybakov, writer
- David Samoylov, poet
- Mendele Mocher Sforim, founder of modern Yiddish and modern Hebrew literature
- Viktor Shklovsky, writer and critic (Jewish father)
- Ilia Shtemler, writer
- Gary Shteyngart (Steinhart), writer
- Boris Slutsky, war-time poet
- Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, science fiction writers (Jewish father)
- Mikhail Svetlov, poet
- Shaul Tchernichovsky, poet and translator
- Yuri Tynyanov, writer
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