List of Jewish historians
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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, U.S. historian of Jewish history.
- Iosif Amusin, Soviet historian.
- Anne Applebaum, U.S. historian of Russia.
- Herbert Aptheker, leader in Communist Party, historian
- Yitzhak Arad, Israeli historian of the Shoah.
- 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.[2]
- Robert Assaraf, Moroccan writer and historian.
- David Ayalon, Israeli historian of Islam and Judaism.[2]
B
- Bernard Bailyn, U.S. Colonial history.[1]
- Richard Barnett, museum curator and archaeologist (JYB 1985 p187)
- Salomon Baron, historian
- Yehuda Bauer, Czech born Israeli historian of the Holocaust.
- Zygmunt Bauman, Anglo-Polish scholar who examines the relationship between modernity and the Holocaust.
- Yitzkak Bayer, History of the 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]
- Benjamin of Tudela, travel writer 1159-73
- Shlomo Ben-Ami, Israeli historian and politician
- Joaquim Bensaude Portuguese historian of astronomy and navigation.[1]
- Norman Bentwich, British lawyer and historian [3]
- Israil Bercovici, Romanian playwright and historian [4]
- Sir Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-born British historian of ideas.
- 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]
- Marc Bloch, French historian of medieval France.[1]
- Solomon Frank Bloom, U.S. historian of modern Europe.[1]
- Jerome Blum, U.S. historian.[1]
- Grigory Bongard-Levin, Russian historian,
- Daniel Boorstin, U.S. historian; official historian at the Smithsonian Institution & the Library of Congress.[1]
- Woodrow Wilson Borah, U.S. historian.[1]
- Ambrosio Brandao, Portuguese historian and soldier.[1]
- Ahron Bregman, author and journalist on the Arab-Israeli conflict
- Harry Bresslau, German historian.[1]
- Berthold Bretholz, Moravian historian.[1]
- Alan Brinkley, historian, provost of Columbia University
- Robert Brunschvig, French historian of Islam.[1]
- Max Buedinger, German modern European historian.[1]
C
- Norman Cantor, mediaeval historian.[1]
- David Cesarani, British professor of history
- Achille Coen, Italian historian.[1]
- David Cohen, Dutch historian and Jewish leader.[1]
- Gustave Cohen, Belgian historian of mediaeval French literature and theatre.[1]
- Robert Cohen, French historian of ancient Greece.[1]
- Norman Cohn, British historian.
- Michael Confino, Israeli historian.[1]
- Martin van Creveld, Dutch-born Israeli military historian.
D
- Lucy Dawidowicz, American Holocaust historian.
- Robert Davidsohn, German historian of mediaeval Florence.[5]
- Natalie Zemon Davis, American historian of France.
- Hermann Dessau, German historian and philologist.[5]
- Isaac Deutscher, Polish-born British Marxist historian and political scientist.[5]
- Max Dimont, Max I. Dimont was a Finnish-American Jew and a popular historian and author. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Dimont
- Martin Duberman, U.S. historian and playwright.[5]
- Simon Dubnov, Russian-born Latvian historian; author of the "History of the Jews"; shot by Nazis.
- Ariel Durant, American historian; author of The Story of Civilization.
E
- Alfred EdersheimAustralian Jewish historian and Biblical scholar
- Victor Ehrenberg, German historian of the ancient world.[5]
- Louis Eisenman, French historian of Europe.[5]
- Abraham Eisenstadt, U.S. historian.[5]
- Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, German-born British historian of Tudor England.[5]
- Carlo Errera, Italian geographer and historian of exploration.[5]
- Richard Ettinghausen, German-born US art historian [2], "Both a Jew and an avid Islamicist"
F
- Orlando Figes, British historian of Russia.
- Louis Filler, U.S. historian.[5]
- Sidney Fine, U.S. historian.[5]
- Samuel Finer, British political scientist and historian [6]
- Norman Finkelstein, American historian.
- Simha Flapan, Israeli historian.
- Robert Fogel, American economic historian.
- Eric Foner, American Marxist historian & president of American Historical Association 2000
- Heinrich Friedjung, Moravian historian and politician.[5]
- Henry Friedlander, German-born American historian of the Holocaust.
- Saul Friedländer, Czech-born French-Israeli historian of the Holocaust.[5]
- Alexander Fuks, Israeli classical historian.[5]
G
- Peter Gay, German-born American historian of ideas.[5]
- Leo Gershoy, U.S. historian.[5]
- Felix Gilbert, U.S. political historian.[5]
- Sir Martin Gilbert, British historian.
- Carlo Ginzburg, Italian historian.
- Gustave Glotz, French ancient Greek historian.[5]
- Shelomo Dov Goitein arabist, historian, ethnographer
- Eric F. Goldman, U.S. modern historian.[5]
- Sir Ernst Gombrich, Austrian-born British art historian.[3]
- Martin Goodman (historian) (Jewish Year Book 2005 p215)
- Gabriel Gorodetsky, historian of Second World War
- Louis Reichental Gottschalk, U.S. historian of modern Europe.[5]
- Heinrich Graetz, Polish-born German historian.
- Jack Granatstein, Canadian military historian.
- Jacob Greenwald, Master of European History University of Haifa
- Jan T. Gross, Polish historian.
H
- Joseph Hakohen, 16th century historian, Italy
- Elie Halevy, French historian, "A History of the English People in the 19th century 1915-30".
- George W. F. Hallgarten, historian: "The German-Jewish historian, George Hallgarten" [4]
- Louis Halphen, French mediaevalist.[5]
- Theodore Stephen Hamerow, U.S. historian.[5]
- Marceli Handelsman, Polish constitutional and political historian.[5]
- Oscar Handlin, U.S. social historian.[5]
- Abraham Harkavy, Belarusian-born Russian historian.
- Henry Harrisse, U.S. historiographer.[5]
- Ludo Moritz Hartmann, Austrian historian and statesman.[5]
- Henri Hauser, French ancient and mediaeval historian.[5]
- Sigmund Herzberg-Fraenkel, Austrian historian.[5]
- Jack H. Hexter, U.S. historian of modern Europe.[5]
- Uriel Heyd, Israeli historian of Islam.[5]
- Raul Hilberg, Austrian-born American Holocaust historian,
- Gertrude Himmelfarb, American historian of Victorian Britain.[5]
- Heinrich Otto Hirschfield, German Roman historian.[5]
- Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-born British Marxist historian.[5]
- Richard Hofstadter, U.S. political historian.[5]
- David Horowitz, American historian.
- Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, American historian.
- Irving Howe, American historian
- Samuel Justin Hurwitz, U.S. historian.[7]
- Harold Melvin Hyman, U.S. historian.[7]
I
- Siegfried Isaacsohn, German historian.[7]
- Jonathan Israel, British historian (Jewish Year Book 2005, p.215)
J
- Oscar Isaiah Janowsky, U.S. historian of modern Europe and Jews.[7]
- Lisa Jardine, British historian (ref see List of British Jews#Historians)
- Louis de Jong, Dutch historian and journalist.[7]
- Matthew Josephson, U.S. social historian.[7]
- Josephus, Ancient Jewish Historian.
K
- Frederick Kagan, American military historian.
- Donald Kagan, American historian of ancient Greece.
- David Kahn, American historian of cryptography.
- Ernst Kantorowicz, German-born American mediaevalist.[7]
- Efraim Karsh, Israeli historian.
- Jacob Katz, was Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and author or editor of many books in medieval and modern Jewish social history. 1904-1998
- Steven T. Katz, U.S. historian of the Holocaust.
- Shmuel Katz, Israeli historian
- Solomon Katz, U.S. historian.[7]
- Elie Kedourie, Iraq-born British historian (Jewish Year Book 1990 p202)
- Morton Keller, U.S. historian.[7]
- Richard Koebner, Israeli German historian.[7]
- Hans Kohn, U.S. political and social historian.[7]
- Hilton Kramer, American art historian.
- Michael Kraus, U.S. historian.[7]
- Leonard Krieger, U.S. historian.[7]
- Hyman Kublin, U.S. historian of the far east.[7]
- Thomas Samuel Kuhn, U.S. historian of science.[7]
- Otto Kurz, historian (Jewish Year Book 1975 p214)
L
- Leopold Labedz, Anglo-Polish historian of Communism.
- Gyula Lanczy, Hungarian economic historian.[7]
- David Landes, U.S. economic historian.[7]
- Thomas Laqueur, UC Berkeley professor, historian of Britain since 1509: social, medical and sexual historian
- Walter Laqueur, German-born American historian of modern Europe, the Middle East & terrorism.
- Max Laserson, Latvian historian.[7]
- Michael Ledeen, American historian of Fascism.
- Mary Lefkowitz, American classical scholar.
- Gerda Lerner, Austrian-born American feminist historian
- Max Lerner, U.S. journalist and social historian.[7]
- Joseph Levenson, U.S. specialist in Chinese history.[7]
- Wilhelm Levison, German mediaevalist.[7]
- Arthur Levy, French historian.[7]
- Leonard William Levy, U.S. political historian.[7]
- Paul Levy, French linguistic historian.[7]
- Bernard Lewis, British orientalist, History of Islam.[7]
- David Malcolm Lewis, British historian. (Jewish Year Book 1995 p.193)
- Felix Liebermann, German mediaevalist.[7]
- Ephraim Lipson, British economic historian.[7]
- Deborah Lipstadt, U.S. Holocaust historian.
- Victor Loewe, German historian and archivist.[8]
- Robert Sabatino Lopez, U.S. mediaevalist.[8]
- Sidney Low, British statesman, journalist and political historian.[8]
- Samuel Lozinski, Russian historian.[8]
- Alberto Lumbroso, Italian historian of the Napoleonic period.[8]
- Giacomo Lumbroso, Italian classical historian and archaeologist.[8]
M
- Frank Manuel, U.S. historian.[8]
- Henrik Marczali, Hungarian historian.[8]
- Ludwig Markus, German expert in Abyssinian and Beta Israeli history.[8]
- Michael Marrus, Canadian Shoah historian.
- Karl Marx, historian and philosopher, born to a Jewish family that converted to Christianity. Author of the Communist Manifesto and On the Jewish Question.
- Arno J. Mayer, Luxembourg-born American historian.[8]
- Gustav Mayer, German political and social historian.[8]
- Milton Meltzer, American historian of Afro-American history.
- Ezra Mendelsohn, Polish historian of the Jewish community in Poland.
- Isaak Mints, Ukrainian-born Russian historian
- Mark Borisovich Mitin, Russian politician and historian.[8]
- Arnaldo Momigliano, Italian-British historian.(Jewish Year Book 1985 p188)
- Felice Momigliano, Italian philosopher and historian.[8]
- Simon Sebag Montefiore [5], British historian of Russia.
- Benny Morris, Israeli historian of Israel
- Richard Brandon Morris, U.S. constitutional historian.[8]
- Louis C. Morton, U.S. historian.[8]
- George Mosse, German-born American historian of ideas.[8]
- Salomon Munk, German-born French historian,
- Gustavus Myers, U.S. social historian.[8]
N
- Oskar Nachod, German historian and bibliographer.[8]
- Lewis Bernstein Namier, Polish-born British historian.[8]
- Abraham Nasatir, U.S. historian of west and southwest U.S.
- Aryeh Nusbacher, American military historian.
O
- Michael Oren, Israeli historian.
P
- Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American historian
- Sir Francis Palgrave, British historian.[8]
- Erwin Panofsky, German-born American art historian,
- Ilan Pappé, Israeli historian.[8]
- Peter Paret, German-born American historian of German history.
- Max Perlbach, German mediaevalist.[8]
- Martin Phillipson, German modern historian and communal leader.[8]
- Koppel S. Pinson, U.S. political and social historian.[8]
- Daniel Pipes, American historian of the Middle East.
- Richard Pipes, Polish-born American historian of Russia.[8]
- L‚on Poliakov, French historian of anti-semitism.
- Sidney Pomerantz, U.S. historian.[8]
- Yehoshua Porath, Israeli historian.
- George Posener, French Egyptologist.[8]
- Sir Michael Postan, British historian. (Jewish Year Book 1985 p188)
- Joshua Prawer, Israeli historian of the Crusade period.[8]
- Alfred Francis Pribham, Anglo-Austrian diplomatic historian.
- Alfred Pribram, Austrian historian and publicist.[8]
- Jacob Psantir, Rumanian historian of the Jews.[8]
R
- Theodore Rabb, U.S. historian of modern history.[9]
- Ronald Radosh, American historian of espionage.
- Armin Rappaport, U.S. historian.[9]
- Sidney Ratner, U.S. economic historian.[9]
- Jehuda Reinharz, U.S.-Israeli historian of modern Jewish history.
- Ludwig Riess, German constitutional historian.[9]
- Emanuel Ringelblum, Polish historian of Warsaw Ghetto.
- Maxime Rodinson, French historian
- Samuele Romanin, Italian historian of classical Rome and Judaism.[9]
- Nello Roselli, Italian historian.[9]
- Ron Rosenbaum, American journalist, author of Explaining Hitler
- Arthur Rosenberg, German historian and Zionist.[9]
- Walt Whitman Rostow, American economic historian.
- Cecil Roth [6], British historian and editor of the Encyclopaedia Judaica
- Hans Rothfels, German-born American historian.
- Suzanne Rutland, Australian historian
S
- Abram L. Sachar, American historian.
- Howard M. Sachar, American historian.
- Julius Salomon, Danish historian and archivist.[9]
- Simon Schama [7], British historian
- J. Salwyn Schapiro, American historian of modern Europe.[9]
- Meyer Schapiro, Lithuanian-born American art historian
- Debra Schultz, American feminist historian
- Yossi Schwartz, The Origins of The Jews Y&R Gitam = CEO
- Tom Segev, Israeli historian.
- Arturo Segre, Italian political and commercial historian.[9]
- Bernard Semmel, U.S. historian.[9]
- Moshe Shamir, Israeli writer and historian.
- Avi Shlaim, Israeli historian.
- Joseph Shulim, U.S. historian.[9]
- Bernhard von Simson, German mediaevalist.[9]
- Paul Simson, German historian.[9]
- Charles Singer, British historian of science and medicine.[9]
- Louis Snyder, U.S. historian.[9]
- Arthur Stein, Austrian historian of classical rome.[9]
- Sir Aurel Stein [8], archeologist
- Henri Stein, French bibliographer and historian.[9]
- Samuel Steinherz, Czechoslovakian mediaevalist.[9]
- Alfred Stern, Swiss social historian.[9]
- Fritz Stern, German-born American historian.
- Zeev Sternhell, Israeli historian of French fascism.
- Barry Supple, British economic historian (Jewish Year Book, 2005, p.215)
T
- Hayim Tadmor, assyriologist
- J. L. Talmon, Israeli political and social historian.[9]
- Frank Tannenbaum, U.S. economic historian.[9]
- Hans Trefousse, U.S. historian.[9]
- Barbara Tuchman, U.S. journalist and historian.[9]
U
- Irwin Unger, U.S. political and social historian.[9]
V
- Geza Vermes [9], Hungarian-born British historian.
W
- Joanna Waley-Cohen, English historian now in New York
- Bernard Wasserstein, British historian of the Middle East and Europe.
- Eugen Weber, Modern European History.
- Gerhard Weinberg, German-born American historian of World War Two.
- Robert Weinberg, American historian of Russia.
- Bernard Weisberger, U.S. historian.[9]
- Eduard Wertheimer, Hungarian historian of the 19th century.[9]
- Helene Wieruszowski, German-U.S. historian.[9]
- Bertram Wolfe, U.S. Soviet historian.[9]
- Michael Wolffsohn, Israeli-born German historian.
- Leonard Woolf, British historian of economics.[9]
Y
- Zvy Yavetz,Israeli historian of ancient rome.
- Yosef Yerushalmi, Jewish History, Culture & Society.
- Aryeh Yitzhaki, Israeli historian.
Z
- Rehavam Zeevi, Israeli historian.
- Oscar Zeichner, U.S. historian.[9]
- Alfred Zimmern, British political scientist and authority on International Relations.[9]
- Howard Zinn, American historian.
References
Footnotes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af (EJL)
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- ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Bentwich
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- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah (EJL)
- ^ Jewish Chronicle obituary, June 25 1993, p.15
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa (EJL)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad (EJL)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af (EJL)
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