Johan Pieter Snapper (born 1935 in the Netherlands), is emeritus Queen Beatrix Professor of Dutch Language, Literature and Culture at the University of California, Berkeley He is known as a literary critic and champion of Dutch culture in the United States.
They hid Jews to prevent them from deportation, and his father, head of the town's labor exchange, destroyed documents to delay their being sent to Germany.
His parents were posthumously (2007) honored as Righteous among the Nations, the highest recognition bestowed on non-Jews by the Knesset in Israel.
His publications consist [3] of monographs on the work of writers Gerard Reve (De spiegel der verlossing in het werk van Gerard Reve, 1990) and Marga Minco (De wegen van Marga Minco, 1999) and several dozen scholarly articles.
In 2009 he was a Fellow at the Flemish Academy of Science and the Arts in Brussels (VLAC), together with his wife, Dr. Gerda Snapper, a Germanist interested in the Holocaust literature of Austria, respectively.