Jakov Lind is the pseudonym used by Heinz (Henry) Landwirth (born 1927), an Austrian autobiographer, short story writer, novelist, and playwright. His writings were influenced by his experiences of repression under the Nazis.

Almost invariably, Jakov Lind writes about the darker side of human experience, of existence in a senseless, nightmarish world in which heroism and intelligence are no assurance of survival. Instead, one survives day by day, somehow, anyhow, as in his own life, accounts of which he has given in Counting My Steps (1969), Numbers (1972), and The Journey to Jerusalem (1973). He lays out his life story not in a straightforward manner but in vignettes and episodes, yet there seem to be few gaps.

Lind was born on February 10, 1927, in Vienna. He had a Jewish upbringing, though the family was not devout, and even as a boy he was already a Zionist. His mother, Rosa (Birnbaum) Landwirth, was an...