Israel Davidson
 Israel Davidson (1870 Jonava Lithuania - 1939 Great Neck New York) was an American Jewish writer and publisher and has been recognized as one of the leading American Hebrew writers in his era. His magnum opus was the four volume Otsar ha-shirah veha-piyut = Thesaurus of Mediaeval Hebrew Poetry (NY 1924–1933).Davidson studied in yeshivas in Jonava Volozhin and Slobodka. In 1898 he emigrated to New York worked at a few occupations before earning a Ph.D from Columbia University.