List of Jewish historians

List of Jewish historians:

See also lists of Jews by country and List of Jewish American historians.

A

* David Abulafia, professor of history, University of Cambridge (Jewish Year Book 2005, p.218)
* Ignac Acsady, Hungarian social and economic historian.(EJL)]
* Howard Adelson, U.S. mediaeval historian.
*Cyrus Adler [Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Adler, Cyrus"] , U.S. historian of Jewish history.
* Geoffrey Alderman [ [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,1713557,00.html] "her father, Geoffrey Alderman, is a columnist for the Jewish Chronicle, and her family are strict Orthodox Jews" Accessed 3 Jan 2007] , historian
* Herbert Aptheker, leader in Communist Party, historian [ [http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/87.1/interview.html] "And I'm Jewish. I was about to go to Command and General Staff School and be promoted..." (subscription needed to view full text)]
* Yehoshua Arieli, Israeli historian.
* Walter Leonard Arnstein, U.S. historian.
* Raymond Aron, French historian of sociology.
* Robert Aron, French author and journalist.
* David Asheri, Israeli classical historian.
* Simon Ashkenazi, Polish modern European history.
* David Ayalon, Israeli historian of Islam and Judaism.

B

* Bernard Bailyn, U.S. Colonial historian.
* Richard Barnett, museum curator and archaeologist (JYB 1985 p187)
* George Louis Beer, U.S. historian of 16th-19th century commerce.
* Emile-Auguste Begin, French physician, historian and librarian.
* Max Beloff, English historian and political scientist.
* Joaquim Bensaude Portuguese historian of astronomy and navigation.
* Norman Bentwich, British lawyer and historian [Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Bentwich]
* Israil Bercovici, Romanian playwright and historian [http://www2.trincoll.edu/~mendele/ytf/ytf02006.htm]
* Jay Berkovitz, U.S. historian of Jews in France and early modern Europe
* Harry Bernstein, U.S. historian.
* Elias Joseph Bickerman, U.S. scholar of ancient history.
* Camille Bloch, French historian, archivist and librarian.
* Gustave Bloch, French Graeco-Roman historian.
* Marc Bloch, French historian of medieval France.
* Herbert Bloch, German born American classicist.
* Solomon Frank Bloom, U.S. historian of modern Europe.
* Jerome Blum, U.S. historian.
* Kyle Bonalle, One of the few Jewish leaders in the Philippine Islands
* Daniel Boorstin, U.S. historian; official historian at the Smithsonian Institution & the Library of Congress., [ [http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/21792/edition_id/442/format/html/displaystory.html j. - celebrity jews ] ]
* Woodrow Wilson Borah, U.S. historian.
* Ambrosio Brandao, Portuguese historian and soldier.
* Harry Bresslau, German historian.
* Berthold Bretholz, Moravian historian.
* Jacob Bronowski, historian of science [http://www.sdjewishjournal.com/stories/article5.html]
* Robert Brunschvig, French historian of Islam.
* Max Buedinger, German modern European historian.

C

* Norman Cantor, mediaeval historian., [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/01/db0103.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/10/01/ixportal.html] "Cantor, himself Jewish, took on the "ruling circles of the American and Israeli Jewish communities"."]
* Achille Coen, Italian historian.
* David Cohen, Dutch historian and Jewish leader.
* Gustave Cohen, Belgian historian of mediaeval French literature and theatre.
* Mark Cohen, American historian of the Jews under medieval Islam
* Robert Cohen, French historian of ancient Greece.
* Michael Confino, Israeli historian.

D

* Robert Davidsohn, German historian of mediaeval Florence.
* Hermann Dessau, German historian and philologist.
* Isaac Deutscher, Polish-born British Marxist historian and political scientist.
* Max Dimont, Max I. Dimont was a Finnish-American Jew and a popular historian and author.
* Martin Duberman, U.S. historian and playwright.
* Ariel Durant, American historian; author of "The Story of Civilization". [ [http://www.historyforsale.com/html/prodetails.asp?documentid=252942&start=2&page=63] "later known as Ariel (1898-1981), a Russian Jewish immigrant and talented student..."]

E

*Ludwig Edelstein, ancient medicine.
* Victor Ehrenberg, German historian of the ancient world.
* Louis Eisenman, French historian of Europe.
* Abraham Eisenstadt, U.S. historian.
* Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, German-born British historian of Tudor England.
* Carlo Errera, Italian geographer and historian of exploration.
* Richard Ettinghausen, German-born US art historian [http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/ettinghausenr.htm, "Both a Jew and an avid Islamicist"]

F

* Louis Filler, U.S. historian.
* Sidney Fine, U.S. historian.
* Samuel Finer, British political scientist and historian ["Jewish Chronicle" obituary, June 25 1993, p.15]
* Sir Moses I. Finley, Classical Historian. [Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed.]
* Robert Fogel, American economic historian and nobel laureate [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/nobels.html]
* Heinrich Friedjung, Moravian historian and politician.
* Saul Friedländer, Czech-born French-Israeli historian of the Holocaust.
* Alexander Fuks, Israeli classical historian.

G

* Peter Gay, German-born American historian of ideas.
* Leo Gershoy, U.S. historian.
* Felix Gilbert, U.S. political historian.
* Sir Martin Gilbert, British historian. [http://www.martingilbert.com/] * Carlo Ginzburg, Italian historian. -->
* Gustave Glotz, French ancient Greek historian.
* Eric F. Goldman, U.S. modern historian.
* Yosef Goldman, author of Hebrew Printing in America [ [http://www.jewishpress.com/page.do/20061/Hooked_On_American_Jewish_History.html Hooked On American Jewish History ] ]
* Sir Ernst Gombrich, Austrian-born British art historian. [http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/arts/story/0,9848,587946,00.html]
* Martin Goodman (historian) (Jewish Year Book 2005 p215)
* Louis Reichental Gottschalk, U.S. historian of modern Europe.
* Philip Guedalla, biographer [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "He was buried in Golders Green Jewish cemetery"]
* 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: "The German-Jewish historian, George Hallgarten" [http://www.nsec-88.org/knihy/The-myth/19.html]
* Louis Halphen, French mediaevalist.
* Theodore Stephen Hamerow, U.S. historian.
* Marceli Handelsman, Polish constitutional and political historian.
* Oscar Handlin, U.S. social historian.
* Henry Harrisse, U.S. historiographer.
* Ludo Moritz Hartmann, Austrian historian and statesman.
* Henri Hauser, French ancient and mediaeval historian.
* Sigmund Herzberg-Fraenkel, Austrian historian.
* Jack H. Hexter, U.S. historian of modern Europe.
* Uriel Heyd, Israeli historian of Islam.
* Raul Hilberg, Austrian-born American Holocaust historian [Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Hilberg, Raul"]
* Gertrude Himmelfarb, American historian of Victorian Britain.
* Heinrich Otto Hirschfield, German Roman historian.
* Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-born British Marxist historian.
* Richard Hofstadter, U.S. political historian.
* Samuel Justin Hurwitz, U.S. historian.
* Harold Melvin Hyman, U.S. historian.

I

* Siegfried Isaacsohn, German historian.
* Jonathan Israel, British historian (Jewish Year Book 2005, p.215)

J

* Joseph Jacobs [http://www.northern.edu/hastingw/jacobs.htm] , editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia
* Oscar Isaiah Janowsky, U.S. historian of modern Europe and Jews.
* Lisa Jardine, British historian (ref see List of British Jews#Historians)
* Louis de Jong, Dutch historian and journalist.
* Matthew Josephson, U.S. social historian.
* Titus Flavius Josephus, Ancient Jewish Historian.

K

* Ernst Kantorowicz, German-born American mediaevalist.
* Solomon Katz, U.S. historian.
* Elie Kedourie, Iraq-born British historian (Jewish Year Book 1990 p202)
* Morton Keller, U.S. historian.
* Dorothy King, British archaeologist and ancient historian
* James Klugmann, communist historian [Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "son of Jewish parents"]
* Richard Koebner, Israeli German historian.
* Hans Kohn, U.S. political and social historian.
* Michael Kraus, U.S. historian.
* Leonard Krieger, U.S. historian.
* Hyman Kublin, U.S. historian of the far east.
* Thomas Samuel Kuhn, U.S. historian of science.
* Otto Kurz, historian (Jewish Year Book 1975 p214)

L

* Gyula Lanczy, Hungarian economic historian.
* David Landes, U.S. economic historian.
*Benno Landsberger, Austrian born assyriologist.
* Max Laserson, Latvian historian.
* Sir Sidney Lee, second editor of the Dictionary of National Biography [http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/Book/Cohen/gencul.html]
* Max Lerner, U.S. journalist and social historian.
* Joseph Levenson, U.S. specialist in Chinese history.
* Wilhelm Levison, German mediaevalist.
* Yitzchak Levine, columnist
* Arthur Levy, French historian.
* Leonard William Levy, U.S. political historian.
* Paul Levy, French linguistic historian.
* Bernard Lewis, British orientalist, History of Islam. [ [http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/middleeast/Bernard_Lewis_Unplugged.asp] "He is Jewish, a native of London, in his 80s."]
* David Malcolm Lewis, British historian. (Jewish Year Book 1995 p.193)
* Felix Liebermann, German mediaevalist.
* Ephraim Lipson, British economic historian.
* Deborah Lipstadt, U.S. Holocaust historian [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4578534.stm] "Lipstadt, the American Jewish academic who exposes Holocaust deniers ..."]
* Victor Loewe, German historian and archivist.
* Robert Sabatino Lopez, U.S. mediaevalist.
* Sidney Low, British statesman, journalist and political historian.
* Samuel Lozinski, Russian historian.
* John Lukacs, Hungarian-US historian [http://www.jeetheer.com/politics/lukacs.htm]
* Alberto Lumbroso, Italian historian of the Napoleonic period.
* Giacomo Lumbroso, Italian classical historian and archaeologist.

M

* Hyam Maccoby [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20040504/ai_n12778519]
* Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft, 2nd Baronet, biographer [Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Magnus"]
* Frank Manuel, U.S. historian.
* Henrik Marczali, Hungarian historian.
* Shula Marks, South African-British expert on African history (Jewish Year Book 2005 p215)
* Ludwig Markus, German expert in Abyssinian and Beta Israeli history.
* Arno J. Mayer, Luxembourg-born American historian.
* Gustav Mayer, German political and social historian.
* Mark Borisovich Mitin, Russian politician and historian.
* Arnaldo Momigliano, Italian-British historian.(Jewish Year Book 1985 p188)
* Felice Momigliano, Italian philosopher and historian.
* Simon Sebag Montefiore [http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400076789&view=qa] , British historian of Russia.
* Hugh Sebag-Montefiore [http://amazon.co.uk/s?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=hugh+sebag+montefiore] , British WW2 historian.
* Richard Brandon Morris, U.S. constitutional historian.
* Louis C. Morton, U.S. historian.
* George Mosse, German-born American historian of ideas.
* Friederich Munzer, German classical scholar.-->
* Gustavus Myers, U.S. social historian.

N

* Oskar Nachod, German historian and bibliographer.
* Lewis Bernstein Namier, Polish-born British historian.
* Alexander Nove, economic historian (Jewish Year Book 1990 p202)

O

*Leo Oppenheim,assyriologist.

P

* Sir Francis Palgrave, British historian.
* Erwin Panofsky, German-born American art historian [ [http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi?uri=/journals/modern_judaism/v018/18.1goodwin.html] "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)]
* Ilan Pappé, Israeli historian.
* Max Perlbach, German mediaevalist.
* Martin Phillipson, German modern historian and communal leader.
* Koppel S. Pinson, U.S. political and social historian.
* Richard Pipes, Polish-born American historian of Russia.
* Karl Polanyi, economist and historian [http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html]
* Sidney Pomerantz, U.S. historian.
* Richard Popkin, historian of philosophy [Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Philosophy"]
* George Posener, French Egyptologist.
* Sir Michael Postan, British historian. (Jewish Year Book 1985 p188)
* Joshua Prawer, Israeli historian of the kingdom of jerusalem and the crusades.
* Alfred Pribram, Austrian historian and publicist.
* Jacob Psantir, Rumanian historian of the Jews.

R

* Theodore Rabb, Renaissance historian.
* Armin Rappaport, U.S. historian.
* Sidney Ratner, U.S. economic historian.
* Ludwig Riess, German constitutional historian.
* Samuele Romanin, Italian historian of classical Rome and Judaism.
* Nello Roselli, Italian historian.
* Arthur Rosenberg, German historian and Zionist.
* Michael Alan Ross, American writer and author of BostonWalks The Jewish Friendship Trail Guidebook See [http://www.gis.net/bostonwalks] />
* Cecil Roth [http://www.jhom.com/personalities/dona_gracia/roth.htm] , British historian and editor of the Encyclopaedia Judaica

* Julius Salomon, Danish historian and archivist.
* Simon Schama [http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/history/historian/Simon_Schama.html] , British historian
* J. Salwyn Schapiro, American historian of modern Europe.
* Leonard Schapiro [Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Glasgow of an anglophile Riga Jewish family"] , historian
* Meyer Schapiro, Lithuanian-born American art historian [ [http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/schapiro-obit.html] "An archetypal Jewish immigrant"]
* David Schoenbaum, modern German history.
* Moses Schorr, historian of Polish Jews
* 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.
* Bernard Semmel, U.S. historian.
* Joseph Shulim, U.S. historian.
* Bernhard von Simson, German mediaevalist.
* Paul Simson, German historian.
* Charles Singer, British historian of science and medicine.
* Ephraim Avigdor Speiser, American assyriologist and archeologist.
* Louis Snyder, U.S. historian.
* Arthur Stein, Austrian historian of classical rome.
* Sir Aurel Stein [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0295977302] , archeologist
* Henri Stein, French bibliographer and historian.
* Samuel Steinherz, Czechoslovakian mediaevalist.
* Alfred Stern, Swiss social historian.
* Barry Supple, British economic historian (Jewish Year Book, 2005, p.215)

T

* Jacob Talmon, Israeli political and social historian.
* Frank Tannenbaum, U.S. economic historian.
* Rosa Levin Toubin, Jewish Texan historian.
* Hans Trefousse, U.S. historian.
* Barbara Tuchman, U.S. journalist and historian. [ [http://www.jcpa.org/jpsr/jpsr-yegar-f05.htm] "American Jewish historian Barbara Tuchman was born in New York City"]

U

* Irwin Unger, U.S. political and social historian.

V

* Geza Vermes [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/spirit/stories/s47729.htm] , Hungarian-born British historian.

W

* Bernard Weisberger, U.S. historian.
* Eduard Wertheimer, Hungarian historian of the 19th century.
* Helene Wieruszowski, German-U.S. historian.
* Bertram Wolfe, U.S. Soviet historian.
* Leonard Woolf, British historian of economics.

Z

* Oscar Zeichner, U.S. historian.
* Alfred Zimmern, British political scientist and authority on International Relations.
* Howard Zinn, American historian [ [http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=12705] ""The Corporation," the lineup was a quartet of four Jewish left intellectuals, including Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn..."]

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