List of Jewish historians
A list of Jewish historians:
A
- David Abulafia, professor of history, University of Cambridge (Jewish Year Book 2005, p. 218)
- Ignac Acsady, Hungarian social and economic historian[1]
- Howard Adelson, U.S. mediaeval historian[1]
- Cyrus Adler,[2] U.S. historian of Jewish history
- Geoffrey Alderman,[3] historian
- Herbert Aptheker, leader in Communist Party, historian[4]
- Yehoshua Arieli, Israeli historian[1]
- Walter Leonard Arnstein, U.S. historian[1]
- Raymond Aron, French historian of sociology[1]
- Robert Aron, French author and journalist[1]
- David Asheri, Israeli classical historian[1]
- Simon Ashkenazi, Polish modern European history[1]
- David Ayalon, Israeli historian of Islam and Judaism[1]
B
- Bernard Bailyn, U.S. Colonial historian[1]
- Richard Barnett, museum curator and archaeologist (JYB 1985 p. 187)
- Salo Wittmayer Baron, American historian of Polish-Austrian Jewish ancestry
- Omer Bartov, U.S. historian of World War II and Polish Jews
- George Louis Beer, U.S. historian of 16th-19th century commerce[1]
- Emile-Auguste Begin, French physician, historian and librarian[1]
- Max Beloff, English historian and political scientist[1]
- Joaquim Bensaude Portuguese historian of astronomy and navigation[1]
- Norman Bentwich, British lawyer and historian[5]
- Israil Bercovici, Romanian playwright and historian [6]
- Jay R. Berkovitz, U.S. historian of Jews in France and early modern Europe
- Harry Bernstein, U.S. historian[1]
- Elias Joseph Bickerman, U.S. scholar of ancient history[1]
- Camille Bloch, French historian, archivist and librarian[1]
- Gustave Bloch, French Graeco-Roman historian[1]
- Herbert Bloch, German-born American classicist
- Marc Bloch, French historian of medieval France[1]
- Solomon Frank Bloom, U.S. historian of modern Europe[1]
- Jerome Blum, U.S. historian[1]
- Daniel Boorstin, U.S. historian; official historian at the Smithsonian Institution & the Library of Congress[1][7]
- Woodrow Wilson Borah, U.S. historian[1]
- Ambrosio Brandao, Portuguese historian and soldier[1]
- Harry Bresslau, German historian[1]
- Berthold Bretholz, Moravian historian[1]
- Jacob Bronowski, historian of science [8]
- Robert Brunschvig, French historian of Islam[1]
- Max Buedinger, German modern European historian[1]
C
- Norman Cantor, mediaeval historian[1][9]
- Achille Coen, Italian historian[1]
- David Cohen, Dutch historian and Jewish leader[1]
- Gustave Cohen, Belgian historian of mediaeval French literature and theatre[1]
- Mark Cohen, American historian of the Jews under medieval Islam
- Robert Cohen, French historian of ancient Greece[1]
- Michael Confino, Israeli historian[1]
D
E
F
- Louis Filler, U.S. historian[1]
- Sidney Fine, U.S. historian[1]
- Samuel Finer, British political scientist and historian [12]
- Sir Moses I. Finley, Classical Historian.[13]
- Robert Fogel, American economic historian and Nobel laureate [14]
- Eric Foner, American historian & president of American Historical Association 2000
- Heinrich Friedjung, Moravian historian and politician[1]
- Henry Friedlander, German-born American historian of the Holocaust
- Saul Friedländer, Czech-born French-Israeli historian of the Holocaust[1]
- Yisrael Friedman, former lecturer at the Tel Aviv University and the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
- Alexander Fuks, Israeli classical historian[1]
G
- Peter Gay, German-born American historian of ideas[1]
- Leo Gershoy, U.S. historian[1]
- Felix Gilbert, U.S. political historian[1]
- Sir Martin Gilbert, British historian.[15]
- Carlo Ginzburg, Italian historian
- Gustave Glotz, French ancient Greek historian[1]
- Eric F. Goldman, U.S. modern historian[1]
- Yosef Goldman, author of Hebrew Printing in America[16]
- Sir Ernst Gombrich, Austrian-born British art historian[17]
- Martin Goodman (historian) (Jewish Year Book 2005 p. 215)
- Louis Reichenthal Gottschalk, U.S. historian of modern Europe[1]
- Philip Guedalla, biographer [18]
- Hans G. Guterbock, German-born hittitologist
H
- Elie Halevy, French historian, "A History of the English People in the 19th century 1915-30"
- George W. F. Hallgarten, historian[19]
- Louis Halphen, French mediaevalist[1]
- Theodore Stephen Hamerow, U.S. historian[1]
- Marceli Handelsman, Polish constitutional and political historian[1]
- Oscar Handlin, U.S. social historian[1]
- Henry Harrisse, U.S. historiographer[1]
- Ludo Moritz Hartmann, Austrian historian and statesman[1]
- Henri Hauser, French ancient and mediaeval historian[1]
- Sigmund Herzberg-Fraenkel, Austrian historian[1]
- Jack H. Hexter, U.S. historian of modern Europe[1]
- Uriel Heyd, Israeli historian of Islam[1]
- Raul Hilberg, Austrian-born American Holocaust historian[20]
- Gertrude Himmelfarb, American historian of Victorian Britain[1]
- Heinrich Otto Hirschfield, German Roman historian[1]
- Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-born British Marxist historian[1]
- Richard Hofstadter, U.S. political historian[1]
- Samuel Justin Hurwitz, U.S. historian[1]
- Harold Melvin Hyman, U.S. historian[1]
I
J
K
- Ernst Kantorowicz, German-born American mediaevalist[1]
- Solomon Katz, U.S. historian[1]
- Elie Kedourie, Iraq-born British historian (Jewish Year Book 1990 p. 202)
- Morton Keller, U.S. historian[1]
- Abraham Khalfon, Jewish historian of Tripoli[21]
- James Klugmann, communist historian [22]
- Richard Koebner, Israeli German historian[1]
- Hans Kohn, U.S. political and social historian[1]
- Michael Kraus, U.S. historian[1]
- Leonard Krieger, U.S. historian[1]
- Hyman Kublin, U.S. historian of the far east[1]
- Thomas Samuel Kuhn, U.S. historian of science[1]
- Otto Kurz, historian (Jewish Year Book 1975 p. 214)
L
- Gyula Lanczy, Hungarian economic historian[1]
- David Landes, U.S. economic historian[1]
- Benno Landsberger, Austrian-born assyriologist
- Max Laserson, Latvian historian[1]
- Sir Sidney Lee, second editor of the Dictionary of National Biography [23]
- Max Lerner, U.S. journalist and social historian[1]
- Joseph Levenson, U.S. specialist in Chinese history[1]
- Wilhelm Levison, German mediaevalist[1]
- Arthur Levy, French historian[1]
- Leonard William Levy, U.S. political historian[1]
- Paul Levy, French linguistic historian[1]
- Bernard Lewis, British orientalist, History of Islam[1][24]
- David Malcolm Lewis, British historian. (Jewish Year Book 1995 p. 193)
- Felix Liebermann, German mediaevalist[1]
- Ephraim Lipson, British economic historian[1]
- Deborah Lipstadt, U.S. Holocaust historian[25]
- Victor Loewe, German historian and archivist[1]
- Robert Sabatino Lopez, U.S. mediaevalist[1]
- Sidney Low, British statesman, journalist and political historian[1]
- Samuel Lozinski, Russian historian[1]
- John Lukacs, Hungarian-US historian [26]
- Alberto Lumbroso, Italian historian of the Napoleonic period[1]
- Giacomo Lumbroso, Italian classical historian and archaeologist[1]
M
- Hyam Maccoby [27]
- Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft, 2nd Baronet, biographer [28]
- Frank Manuel, U.S. historian[1]
- Henrik Marczali, Hungarian historian[1]
- Shula Marks, South African-British expert on African history (Jewish Year Book 2005 p. 215)
- Ludwig Markus, German expert in Abyssinian and Beta Israeli history[1]
- Arno J. Mayer, Luxembourg-born American historian[1]
- Gustav Mayer, German political and social historian[1]
- Mark Borisovich Mitin, Russian politician and historian[1]
- Arnaldo Momigliano, Italian-British historian.(Jewish Year Book 1985 p. 188)
- Felice Momigliano, Italian philosopher and historian[1]
- Richard Brandon Morris, U.S. constitutional historian[1]
- Louis C. Morton, U.S. historian[1]
- George Mosse, German-born American historian of ideas[1]
- Gustavus Myers, U.S. social historian[1]
N
O
O
- Leo Oppenheim, Assyriologist
P
- Sir Francis Palgrave, British historian[1]
- Erwin Panofsky, German-born American art historian[29]
- Ilan Pappé, Israeli historian[1]
- Max Perlbach, German mediaevalist[1]
- Martin Phillipson, German modern historian and communal leader[1]
- Koppel Pinson, U.S. political and social historian[1]
- Richard Pipes, Polish-born American historian of Russia[1]
- Karl Polanyi, economist and historian [30]
- Sidney Pomerantz, U.S. historian[1]
- Richard Popkin, historian of philosophy [31]
- Samuel A. Portnoy, American historian of Jewish and East European history [32]
- George Posener, French Egyptologist[1]
- Sir Michael Postan, British historian. (Jewish Year Book 1985 p. 188)
- Joshua Prawer, Israeli historian of the kingdom of Jerusalem and the crusades[1]
- Alfred Francis Pribram (de), Anglo-Austrian diplomatic historian.[33]
- Alfred Pribram, Austrian historian and publicist[1]
- Jacob Psantir, Rumanian historian of the Jews[1]
R
S
- Julius Salomon, Danish historian and archivist[1]
- Simon Schama, British historian[36]
- J. Salwyn Schapiro, American historian of modern Europe[1]
- Leonard Schapiro,[37] historian
- Meyer Schapiro, Lithuanian-born American art historian[38]
- David Schoenbaum, modern German history
- Moses Schorr, historian of Polish Jews
- Hugh Sebag-Montefiore, British WW2 historian[39]
- Simon Sebag Montefiore, British historian of Russia[40]
- Tom Segev, Israeli historian
- Arturo Segre, Italian political and commercial historian[1]
- Avraham Sela, Israeli historian
- Bernard Semmel, U.S. historian[1]
- Moshe Shamir, Israeli writer and historian
- Avi Shlaim, Israeli historian
- Joseph Shulim, U.S. historian[1]
- Bernhard von Simson, German mediaevalist[1]
- Paul Simson, German historian[1]
- Charles Singer, British historian of science and medicine[1]
- Ephraim Avigdor Speiser, American assyriologist and archeologist
- Louis Snyder, U.S. historian[1]
- Arthur Stein, Austrian historian of classical Rome[1]
- Sir Aurel Stein , archeologist
- Henri Stein, French bibliographer and historian[1]
- Samuel Steinherz, Czechoslovakian mediaevalist[1]
- Alfred Stern, Swiss social historian[1]
- Barry Supple, British economic historian (Jewish Year Book, 2005, p. 215)
T
U
V
- Geza Vermes, Hungarian-born British historian[42]
W
- Bernard Weisberger, U.S. historian[1]
- Eduard Wertheimer, Hungarian historian of the 19th century[1]
- Helene Wieruszowski, German-U.S. historian[1]
- Mordecai Wilensky, American/Israeli historian of Jewish history
- Bertram Wolfe, U.S. Soviet historian[1]
- Leonard Woolf, British historian of economics[1]
Z
- Oscar Zeichner, U.S. historian[1]
- Alfred Zimmern, British political scientist and authority on International Relations[1]
- Carl A. Zimring, American environmental historian
- Howard Zinn, American historian[43]
References
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- ↑ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Adler, Cyrus
- ↑ "her father, Geoffrey Alderman, is a columnist for the Jewish Chronicle, and her family are strict Orthodox Jews" Accessed 3 Jan 2007
- ↑ "And I'm Jewish. I was about to go to Command and General Staff School and be promoted..." (subscription needed to view full text)
- ↑ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Bentwich
- ↑ http://www2.trincoll.edu/~mendele/ytf/ytf02006.htm
- ↑ j. - Celebrity Jews: Rich Guys Donate
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- ↑ "Cantor, himself Jewish, took on the "ruling circles of the American and Israeli Jewish communities"."
- ↑ "later known as Ariel (1898-1981), a Russian Jewish immigrant and talented student..."
- ↑ http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/ettinghausenr.htm, "Both a Jew and an avid Islamicist"
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- ↑ Hooked On American Jewish History
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- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "He was buried in Golders Green Jewish cemetery"
- ↑ "The German-Jewish historian, George Hallgarten"
- ↑ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Hilberg, Raul
- ↑ Meddeb, Abdelwahab; Stora, Benjamin, eds. (2013). A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the origins to the present day. Princeton University Press. p. 237. ISBN 0-691-15127-X.
- ↑ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "son of Jewish parents"
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- ↑ "He is Jewish, a native of London, in his 80s."
- ↑ "Lipstadt, the American Jewish academic who exposes Holocaust deniers ..."
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- ↑ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Magnus"
- ↑ "Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968), another Jewish scholar associated with the Warburg Library, was the most illustrious art historian who found refuge in America." (subscription needed to view)
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- ↑ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Philosophy"
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- ↑ Almanach für das Jahr 1949, 99. Band, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, In Kommission bei R. M. Rohrer.
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- ↑ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Glasgow of an anglophile Riga Jewish family"
- ↑ "An archetypal Jewish immigrant"
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- ↑ "American Jewish historian Barbara Tuchman was born in New York City"
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- ↑ ""The Corporation," the lineup was a quartet of four Jewish left intellectuals, including Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn..."
