Writers
- Erich Auerbach, literature critic
- Julius Bab, dramatist and theater critic
- Jurek Becker, writer
- Maxim Biller, writer
- Ludwig Börne, satirist
- Otto Brahm, literary critic
- Henryk Broder, journalist
- Walter Benjamin, literary critic & philosopher
- Emil Carlebach, writer, dissident
- Joseph Derenbourg, orientalist, father of Hartwig Derenbourg
- Hilde Domin, poet
- Lion Feuchtwanger, novelist
- Hubert Fichte, author (Jewish father)
- Anne Frank, diarist
- Karen Gershon, poet (1923–1993)
- Friedrich Gundolf, literary man
- Glückel of Hameln, 18th-century Yiddish diarist
- Maximilian Harden, journalists
- Heinrich Heine, poet (converted to Protestantism for job prospects)
- Stefan Heym, novelist, politician
- Wolfgang Hildesheimer
- Edgar Hilsenrath, novelist
- Barbara Honigmann, writer
- Heinrich Eduard Jacob, writer and journalist
- Siegfried Jacobsohn, journalist and theater critic
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, novelist and screenwriter
- Wladimir Kaminer, short story writer
- Judith Kerr, children's writer
- Victor Klemperer, writer
- Else Lasker-Schüler, writer, poet & artist (converted to Protestantism for job prospects)
- Claire Loewenfeld, writer and herbalist.
- Gila Lustiger, author
- Erika Mann, writer, actress (Jewish mother)
- Klaus Mann, writer (Jewish mother)
- Monika Mann, writer (Jewish mother)
- Julius Mosen, born Moses
- Erich Mühsam, anarchist poet
- Henning Pawel, child-book author, writer.
- Solomon Perel, author
- Marcel Reich-Ranicki, literary critic
- H. A. Rey & Margret Rey, creators of Curious George
- Renate Rubinstein (Jewish father)
- Nelly Sachs, poet, Nobel Prize (1966)
- Anna Seghers, novelist
- Oskar Seidlin, writer
- Rafael Seligmann, writer
- Süßkind von Trimberg, middle age writer, minnesinger
- Kurt Tucholsky, writer (converted to Protestantism)
- Samuel Ullman, poet
- Rahel Varnhagen, writer and saloniste (converted to Christianity)
- Moritz Callmann Wahl
- Jakob Wassermann, novelist
- Trude Weiss-Rosmarin
- Jeanette Wohl
- Friedrich Wolf, writer, physician
- Carl Zuckmayer, playwright (Jewish mother)
- Arnold Zweig, writer
- Stefanie Zweig, novelist
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