Gershon Shofman (Hebrew: גרשון שופמן) (born 1880; died 1972) was an Israeli writer.

Gershon Shofman was born in Orsha, in the Mogilev Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus) in 1880.

He performed his military service in the Russian army from 1902 in Gomel, where he was in 1903 eyewitness of a pogrom.

In 1904, after he had deserted from the Russian army at the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War, he fled to Lemberg, today Lviv, in Austria-Hungary.

In 1921, he married Anna Plank and lived with her in Wetzelsdorf, then an independent municipality, today a district in the west part of the city of Graz.