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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“If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself “Why?” afterwards than before. Anyway, the force from somewhere in Space which commands you to write in the first place, gives you no choice. You take up the pen when you are told, and write what is commanded. There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.... Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)