This thesis deals with the connections between Judaism and writing in the Brazilian context, focusing on Samuel Rawets, Moacyr Scliars and Cíntia Moscovichs works. Based on the image of the author and the image of the Jew that can be perceived from their works, one aims to discover different possibilities of translation of an ancestral legacy such as the Jewish one. The literary voices born out of the tension between fiction and autobiography express a search for an identity always temporary and subject to treason in different levels, which produces a constant reflection on Jewish heritage and its connection to the word and to the researcher`s professional and personal path. That produceded an authoral writing which tries to balance academic and personal languages.