Elazar Benyoëtz

Elazar Benyoëtz (born in 1937 in Wiener Neustadt, Austria) is an Israeli writer.

In 1963, he came to Berlin as part of the Ford Foundation's "Artists in Residence" program, and in 1965, together with Renate Heuer, he founded the Bibliographia Judaica, to date the largest encyclopedia on German-Jewish writers.

He is married to Renée Koppel, an Algerian-Israeli calligrapher and miniaturist who specialised in Judaica.

Elazar Benyoëtz received the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize in 1988 and has been awarded the Federal Order of Merit for his services to the German language.

He presented the selection as a gift to the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.