Isac Ludo (1894–1973) was a Romanian writer and political figure.

Born into a Jewish-Romanian family, Ludo was active in left-wing literary circles prior to World War II. After the Communist take-over in 1947, he rose to important positions in the régime's censorship office.

Isac Ludo

Prior to 1965, he published a series of novels — Domnul general guvernează ("The General Rules"), Starea de asediu ("State of Siege"), Regele Palaelibus ("King Palaelibus"), Salvatorul ("The Saver"), Ultimul batalion ("The Last Battalion") — which constituted a satirical panorama of political life in Greater Romania.

Isac Ludo

Ludo also published translations into Romanian from the Yiddish language writer Scholem Aleichem.

Isac Ludo

Romanian censors

Writers from Iași

Jewish Romanian writers

Jewish socialists

Romanian male novelists

Romanian socialists

Romanian translators

1894 births

1973 deaths

20th-century Romanian novelists

20th-century translators

20th-century Romanian male writers