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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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Judah ha-Levi

Hebrew poet

Isaac ben Solomon Luria

Jewish mystic

Ibn Gabirol

Ibn Gabirol

Jewish poet and philosopher

Saʿadia ben Joseph

Jewish exegete and philosopher

Rashi, from a French postage stamp.

Rashi

French religious scholar

Haim Naḥman Bialik.

Haim Naḥman Bialik

Russian-Jewish writer

Elijah Bokher Levita

Italian grammarian

Amos Oz

Amos Oz

Israeli author

Micah Joseph Berdichevsky

Russian author

S.Y. Agnon

S.Y. Agnon

Israeli author

Moses ibn Ezra

Spanish-Jewish poet

Reuchlin, Johannes

Johannes Reuchlin

German humanist

Mendele Moykher Sforim

Russian-Jewish author

Amichai, Yehuda

Yehuda Amichai

Israeli author

Uri Zvi Greenberg

Israeli poet

Dunash Ben Labrat

Hebrew poet

Joseph Kimhi

European grammarian

Goldfaden, Avrom

Avrom Goldfaden

Jewish author

Aharon Appelfeld

Aharon Appelfeld

Israeli author

Gabriel Preil

American poet

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

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