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  • David Abulafia
    David Abulafia
    David Samuel Harvard Abulafia is an influential English historian with a particular interest in Italy, Spain and the rest of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. He has been Professor of Mediterranean History at the University of Cambridge since 2000 and a Fellow of Gonville...

    , professor of history, University of Cambridge
    University of Cambridge
    The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

     (Jewish Year Book
    Jewish Year Book
    The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

     2005, p. 218)
  • Ignac Acsady, Hungarian social and economic historian.
  • Howard Adelson, U.S. mediaeval historian.
  • Cyrus Adler
    Cyrus Adler
    Cyrus Adler was a U.S. educator, Jewish religious leader and scholar.-Biography:Adler was born in Van Buren, Arkansas, a graduate of University of Pennsylvania in 1883 and gained a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1887, where he taught Semitic languages from 1884 to 1893...

    , U.S. historian of Jewish history.
  • Geoffrey Alderman
    Geoffrey Alderman
    Geoffrey Alderman is a British historian, especially of the Jewish community in England in the 19th and 20th centuries, and also an academic, political adviser and award-winning journalist.-Life:...

    , historian

  • Herbert Aptheker
    Herbert Aptheker
    Herbert Aptheker was an American Marxist historian and political activist. He authored over 50 volumes, mostly in the fields of African American history and general U.S. history, most notably, American Negro Slave Revolts , a classic in the field, and the 7-volume Documentary History of the Negro...

    , leader in Communist Party, historian

  • Yehoshua Arieli, Israeli historian.
  • Walter Leonard Arnstein, U.S. historian.
  • Raymond Aron
    Raymond Aron
    Raymond-Claude-Ferdinand Aron was a French philosopher, sociologist, journalist and political scientist.He is best known for his 1955 book The Opium of the Intellectuals, the title of which inverts Karl Marx's claim that religion was the opium of the people -- in contrast, Aron argued that in...

    , French historian of sociology.
  • Robert Aron
    Robert Aron
    Robert Aron was a French writer who authored a number of works on politics and history.-Early life:...

    , French author and journalist.

  • David Asheri, Israeli classical historian.
  • Simon Ashkenazi, Polish modern European history.

  • David Ayalon, Israeli historian of Islam and Judaism.

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  • Bernard Bailyn
    Bernard Bailyn
    Bernard Bailyn is an American historian, author, and professor specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He has been a professor at Harvard University since 1953. Bailyn has won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice . In 1998 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected...

    , U.S. Colonial historian.
  • Richard Barnett, museum curator and archaeologist (JYB 1985 p187)

  • George Louis Beer
    George Louis Beer
    George Louis Beer was an American historian.Born in Staten Island, New York, he achieved success in the tobacco business. He studied at Columbia University and lectured on European History there from 1893 to 1897. After retiring from business, he wrote three books on the British-American...

    , 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
    Norman Bentwich
    Norman De Mattos Bentwich OBE MC was a British barrister and legal academic who served as Legal Secretary and the first Attorney-General of Mandatory Palestine from 1918 to 1931. A lifelong Zionist, Bentwich was close to the moderate wing of the movement...

    , British lawyer and historian
  • Israil Bercovici
    Israil Bercovici
    Israil Bercovici was a Jewish Romanian dramaturg, playwright, director, biographer, and memoirist, who served the State Jewish Theater of Romania between 1955 to 1982; he also wrote Yiddish-language poetry.-Biography:...

    , Romanian playwright and historian
  • Jay R. Berkovitz
    Jay R. Berkovitz
    Jay R. Berkovitz is Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies and director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He earned a Ph.D. from Brandeis University and is a member of Congregation Shaarei Tefillah in Newton, Massachusetts, where he lives with his...

    , U.S. historian of Jews in France and early modern Europe

  • Harry Bernstein
    Harry Bernstein
    Harry Louis Bernstein was a British-born American writer whose first published book, The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers, dealt with his long suffering mother Ada's struggles to feed her six children; an abusive, alcoholic father, Yankel; the anti-Semitism Bernstein and his Jewish...

    , U.S. historian.
  • Elias Joseph Bickerman, U.S. scholar of ancient history.
  • Camille Bloch, French historian, archivist and librarian.
  • Gustave Bloch
    Gustave Bloch
    Gustave Bloch was a French Jewish historian of ancient history who was born in Fegersheim, a commune in the department of Bas-Rhin...

    , French Graeco-Roman historian.
  • Marc Bloch
    Marc Bloch
    Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch was a French historian who cofounded the highly influential Annales School of French social history. Bloch was a quintessential modernist. An assimilated Alsatian Jew from an academic family in Paris, he was deeply affected in his youth by the Dreyfus Affair...

    , French historian of medieval France.
  • Herbert Bloch
    Herbert Bloch
    Herbert Bloch was professor emeritus of Classics at Harvard and a renowned authority on Greek historiography, Roman epigraphy and archaeology, medieval monasticism, and the transmission of classical culture and literature....

    , German born American classicist.
  • Solomon Frank Bloom, U.S. historian of modern Europe.
  • Jerome Blum, U.S. historian.

  • Daniel Boorstin, U.S. historian; official historian at the Smithsonian Institution & the Library of Congress.,
  • Woodrow Wilson Borah, U.S. historian.
  • Ambrosio Brandao, Portuguese historian and soldier.

  • Harry Bresslau
    Harry Bresslau
    Harry Bresslau was a German historian and scholar of state papers and of historical and literary muniments .-Training:...

    , German historian.
  • Berthold Bretholz, Moravian historian.


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  • Norman Cantor
    Norman Cantor
    Norman Frank Cantor was a historian who specialized in the medieval period. Known for his accessible writing and engaging narrative style, Cantor's books were among the most widely-read treatments of medieval history in English...

    , mediaeval historian.,

  • Achille Coen, Italian historian.
  • David Cohen
    David Cohen
    David Cohen , was an American lawyer, Democratic civil servant and politician. For the last 26 years of his life, he was a Philadelphia city councilman representing the northwest district. Having served a four year term not consecutive to the other terms, he represented northwest Philadelphia for a...

    , Dutch historian and Jewish leader.
  • Gustave Cohen, Belgian historian of mediaeval French literature and theatre.
  • Mark Cohen
    Mark R. Cohen
    Mark R. Cohen is a professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University specializing in Jews in the Muslim world. He is a leading scholar of the history of Jews in the Middle Ages under Islam. His research relies greatly on documents from the Cairo Geniza...

    , American historian of the Jews under medieval Islam
  • Robert Cohen
    Robert Cohen
    Robert Cohen is a Canadian comedy writer. He was raised in Calgary, Alberta and has written for The Simpsons , The Wonder Years, The Ben Stiller Show, MADtv, Just Shoot Me!, Father of the Pride, and American Dad!...

    , French historian of ancient Greece.

  • Michael Confino, Israeli historian.


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  • Robert Davidsohn, German historian of mediaeval Florence.

  • Hermann Dessau
    Hermann Dessau
    Hermann Dessau was a German ancient historian and epigrapher. He is noted for a key work of textual criticism published in 1889 on the Historia Augusta, which uncovered reasons to believe that this surviving text of ancient Roman imperial history had been written under circumstances very...

    , German historian and philologist.
  • Isaac Deutscher
    Isaac Deutscher
    Isaac Deutscher was a Polish-born Jewish Marxist writer, journalist and political activist who moved to the United Kingdom at the outbreak of World War II. He is best known as a biographer of Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin and as a commentator on Soviet affairs...

    , Polish-born British Marxist historian and political scientist.
  • Max Dimont
    Max Dimont
    Max I. Dimont was a Finnish American historian and author.- Biography :Born to a Jewish family in Helsinki, Finland, Dimont came to the United States in August 1929 with his mother and siblings - on the steerage passenger list of their ship, SS Berengaria, his place of birth is listed as Kovno,...

    , Max I. Dimont was a Finnish-American Jew and a popular historian and author.
  • Martin Duberman
    Martin Duberman
    Martin Bauml Duberman is an American historian, playwright, and gay-rights activist. He is Professor of History Emeritus at Lehman College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York and was the founder of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate School...

    , U.S. historian and playwright.

  • Ariel Durant
    Ariel Durant
    Ariel Durant was the co-author of The Story of Civilization.-Biography:Durant was born in Proskurov as Chaya Kaufman to Ethel Appel Kaufman and Joseph Kaufman. The family emigrated to the United States in 1901. She met her future husband, Will Durant, while a student at Ferrer Modern School in...

    , American historian; author of The Story of Civilization.

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  • Ludwig Edelstein
    Ludwig Edelstein
    Ludwig Edelstein was a classical scholar and historian of medicine. He left Germany in 1933, and took up an appointment at Johns Hopkins University in 1934...

    , ancient medicine.

  • Victor Ehrenberg
    Victor Ehrenberg (historian)
    Victor Ehrenberg was a German historian. He was the younger brother of Hans Ehrenberg and the nephew of the jurist Victor Ehrenberg.He was married to Eva Dorothea Ehrenberg, née Sommer ....

    , German historian of the ancient world.
  • Louis Eisenman, French historian of Europe.
  • Abraham Eisenstadt, U.S. historian.
  • Amos Elon
    Amos Elon
    -Biography:Amos Elon was born in Vienna. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1933. He studied law and history in Israel and England. He was married to Beth Elon, a New York-born literary agent, with whom he had one daughter, Danae. In the 1990s, Elon began to spend much of his time in Italy...

    , Vienna-born Israeli. Historian of Germany and modern Israel.
  • Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton
    Geoffrey Rudolph Elton
    Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton was a German-born British historian, who specialized in the Tudor period.- Upbringing :...

    , German-born British historian of Tudor England.
  • Carlo Errera, Italian geographer and historian of exploration.
  • Richard Ettinghausen
    Richard Ettinghausen
    Richard Ettinghausen was a historian of Islamic art and chief curator of the Freer Gallery.-Education:Ettinghausen received his Ph.D...

    , German-born US art historian

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  • Louis Filler
    Louis Filler
    Louis Filler , was an American teacher and a widely published scholar specializing in American studies....

    , U.S. historian.
  • Sidney Fine
    Sidney Fine (historian)
    Sidney Fine was a professor of history at the University of Michigan. He authored many books on Frank Murphy, who served successively as mayor of Detroit, governor of Michigan, U.S. attorney general and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was a Guggenheim Fellow and twice the winner...

    , U.S. historian.
  • Samuel Finer
    Samuel Finer
    Professor Samuel Edward Finer was a political scientist and historian who was instrumental in advancing political studies as an academic subject in the United Kingdom, pioneering the study of UK political institutions...

    , British political scientist and historian

  • Sir Moses I. Finley
    Moses I. Finley
    Sir Moses I. Finley CBE, FBA was an American and English classical scholar. His most notable work is The Ancient Economy , where he argued that status and civic ideology governed the economy in antiquity rather than rational economic motivations.-Early life and career:He was born in 1912 in New...

    , Classical Historian.

  • Robert Fogel
    Robert Fogel
    Robert William Fogel is an American economic historian and scientist, and winner of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is now the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions and director of the Center for Population Economics at the...

    , American economic historian and nobel laureate http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/nobels.html

  • Heinrich Friedjung
    Heinrich Friedjung
    Heinrich Friedjung was an Austrian historian and journalist.Friedjung was born in Roschtin , Moravia . The son of a Jewish family grew up in Vienna, and studied history in Prague and Berlin under Theodor Mommsen and Leopold von Ranke...

    , Moravian historian and politician.

  • Saul Friedländer
    Saul Friedländer
    Saul Friedländer is an award-winning Israeli historian and currently a professor of history at UCLA.-Biography:...

    , Czech-born French-Israeli historian of the Holocaust.
  • Alexander Fuks
    Alexander Fuks
    Alexander Fuks was a German-born, later Israeli historian, archaeologist and papyrologist. He worked with Victor Tcherikover and Menahem Stern on the standard edition of Jewish papyri. He was a specialist in the study of Hellenistic Judaism.-References:...

    , Israeli classical historian.

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  • Peter Gay
    Peter Gay
    Peter Gay is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers . Gay received the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction in 2004...

    , German-born American historian of ideas.
  • Leo Gershoy
    Leo Gershoy
    Leo Gershoy was a history professor at New York University 1940-1975. In his name the American Historical Association awards an annual prize for the best new book on 17th or 18th century European history. An annual lecture at New York University is also named for him.- Works :...

    , U.S. historian.
  • Felix Gilbert
    Felix Gilbert
    Felix Gilbert was a German-born American historian of early modern and modern Europe. Gilbert was born in Baden-Baden, Germany to a middle-class Jewish family, and part of the Mendelssohn Bartholdy clan. In the latter half of the 1920s, Gilbert studied under Friedrich Meinecke at the University of...

    , U.S. political historian.
  • Sir Martin Gilbert, British historian. http://www.martingilbert.com/
  • Carlo Ginzburg
    Carlo Ginzburg
    Carlo Ginzburg is a noted historian and proponent of the field of microhistory. He is best known for his Il formaggio e I vermi which examined the beliefs of an Italian heretic, Menocchio, from Montereale Valcellina.- Biography :The son of Natalia Ginzburg and Leone Ginzburg, he was born...

    , Italian historian. -->
  • Gustave Glotz
    Gustave Glotz
    Gustave Glotz was a French historian of ancient Greece. He was a supporter of the theory that history never follows a simple, logical course....

    , French ancient Greek historian.

  • Eric F. Goldman
    Eric F. Goldman
    Eric Frederick Goldman was an American historian, Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University, and Presidential advisor.-Life:...

    , U.S. modern historian.
  • Yosef Goldman
    Yosef Goldman
    Yosef Goldman is a scholar of American Jewish history and the author of the two-volume reference work, Hebrew Printing in America 1735-1926: A History and Annotated Bibliography . This work is usually cited by auctioneers and rare-book dealers...

    , author of Hebrew Printing in America
    Hebrew Printing in America
    Hebrew Printing in America, 1735-1926, A History and Annotated Bibliography is a history and bibliography of Hebrew books printed in America between 1735 and 1926 by Yosef Goldman, with research and editing by Ari Kinsberg...

  • Sir Ernst Gombrich
    Ernst Gombrich
    Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE was an Austrian-born art historian who became naturalized British citizen in 1947. He spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom...

    , Austrian-born British art historian.http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/arts/story/0,9848,587946,00.html
  • Martin Goodman (historian)
    Martin Goodman (historian)
    Martin David Goodman is a historian and writer on Roman history and the history and literature of the Jews in the Roman period....

     (Jewish Year Book
    Jewish Year Book
    The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

     2005 p215)

  • Louis Reichenthal Gottschalk, U.S. historian of modern Europe.

  • Philip Guedalla
    Philip Guedalla
    Philip Guedalla was a British barrister, and a popular historical and travel writer and biographer. His wit and epigrams are well-known, one example being "Even reviewers read a Preface," another being "History repeats itself...

    , biographer
  • Hans G. Guterbock, German born hittitologist.

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  • Elie Halevy
    Élie Halévy
    Élie Halévy was a French philosopher and historian who wrote studies of the British utilitarians, a history of 19th-century England and the acclaimed book of essays, Era of Tyrannies.-Biography:...

    , French historian, "A History of the English People in the 19th century 1915-30".
  • George W. F. Hallgarten
    George W. F. Hallgarten
    George W. F. Hallgarten, or Georg Wolfgang Felix Hallgarten was a German-born American historian....

    , historian: "The German-Jewish historian, George Hallgarten" http://www.nsec-88.org/knihy/The-myth/19.html
  • Louis Halphen
    Louis Halphen
    Louis Sigismond Isaac Halphen was a French medieval specialist and the author of many important books over a long career...

    , French mediaevalist.
  • Theodore Stephen Hamerow, U.S. historian.
  • Marceli Handelsman
    Marceli Handelsman
    Marceli Handelsman was a Polish historian, a Warsaw University professor, medievalist, modern historian, and historical methodologist.-Life:Marceli Handelsman was born on 8 July 1882, in Warsaw, to a family of distant Jewish ancestry...

    , Polish constitutional and political historian.
  • Oscar Handlin
    Oscar Handlin
    Oscar Handlin was an American historian. As a professor of history at Harvard University for over 50 years, he directed 80 PhD dissertations and helped promote social and ethnic history...

    , U.S. social historian.

  • Henry Harrisse, U.S. historiographer.
  • Ludo Moritz Hartmann, Austrian historian and statesman.
  • Henri Hauser
    Henri Hauser
    Henri Hauser [ozer] , Algerian-born French economist, historian, geographer.He was a professor of ancient and medieval history at the University of Clermont-Ferrand , and modern history and geography at Dijon University , history at Sorbonne University , economic history at the University of Paris...

    , 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
    Raul Hilberg
    Raul Hilberg was an Austrian-born American political scientist and historian. He was widely considered to be the world's preeminent scholar of the Holocaust, and his three-volume, 1,273-page magnum opus, The Destruction of the European Jews, is regarded as a seminal study of the Nazi Final...

    , Austrian-born American Holocaust historian
  • Gertrude Himmelfarb
    Gertrude Himmelfarb
    Gertrude Himmelfarb , also known as Bea Kristol, is an American historian. She has written extensively on intellectual history, with a focus on Britain and the Victorian era, as well as on contemporary society and culture....

    , American historian of Victorian Britain.
  • Heinrich Otto Hirschfield, German Roman historian.
  • Eric Hobsbawm
    Eric Hobsbawm
    Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm , CH, FBA, is a British Marxist historian, public intellectual, and author...

    , Egyptian-born British Marxist historian.
  • Richard Hofstadter
    Richard Hofstadter
    Richard Hofstadter was an American public intellectual of the 1950s, a historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University...

    , U.S. political historian.

  • Samuel Justin Hurwitz, U.S. historian.
  • Harold Melvin Hyman, U.S. historian.

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  • Siegfried Isaacsohn, German historian.
  • Jonathan Israel
    Jonathan Israel
    Professor Jonathan Irvine Israel is a British writer on Dutch history, the Age of Enlightenment and European Jewry. Israel was appointed the Modern European History Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Township, New Jersey, U.S...

    , British historian (Jewish Year Book
    Jewish Year Book
    The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

     2005, p. 215)

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  • Joseph Jacobs
    Joseph Jacobs
    Joseph Jacobs was a folklorist, literary critic and historian. His works included contributions to the Jewish Encyclopaedia, translations of European works, and critical editions of early English literature...

     http://www.northern.edu/hastingw/jacobs.htm, editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia
    Jewish Encyclopedia
    The Jewish Encyclopedia is an encyclopedia originally published in New York between 1901 and 1906 by Funk and Wagnalls. It contained over 15,000 articles in 12 volumes on the history and then-current state of Judaism and the Jews as of 1901...

  • Oscar Isaiah Janowsky, U.S. historian of modern Europe and Jews.
  • Lisa Jardine
    Lisa Jardine
    Lisa Anne Jardine CBE , née Lisa Anne Bronowski, is a British historian of the early modern period. She is professor of Renaissance Studies and Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, University of London, and is Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority...

    , British historian (ref see List of British Jews#Historians)
  • Louis de Jong, Dutch historian and journalist.
  • Matthew Josephson
    Matthew Josephson
    Matthew Josephson was an American journalist and author of works on nineteenth-century French literature and twentieth-century American economic history.-Biography:...

    , U.S. social historian.
  • Titus Flavius Josephus
    Josephus
    Titus Flavius Josephus , also called Joseph ben Matityahu , was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer of priestly and royal ancestry who recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD and the First Jewish–Roman War, which resulted in the Destruction of...

    , Ancient Jewish Historian.

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  • Ernst Kantorowicz
    Ernst Kantorowicz
    Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz was a German-Jewish historian of medieval political and intellectual history, known for his 1927 book Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite on Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, and in particular The King's Two Bodies .Kantorowicz was born in Posen to a wealthy, assimilated...

    , German-born American mediaevalist.

  • Solomon Katz, U.S. historian.
  • Elie Kedourie
    Elie Kedourie
    Elie Kedourie C.B.E., FBA was a British historian of the Middle East. He wrote from a conservative perspective, dissenting from many points of view taken as orthodox in the field...

    , Iraq-born British historian (Jewish Year Book
    Jewish Year Book
    The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

     1990 p202)
  • Morton Keller, U.S. historian.
  • James Klugmann
    James Klugmann
    Norman John Klugmann , generally known as James Klugmann, was a leading British Communist writer who became the official historian of the Communist Party of Great Britain-Background and Early Career:...

    , communist historian
  • Richard Koebner, Israeli German historian.
  • Hans Kohn
    Hans Kohn
    Hans Kohn was a Jewish philosopher and historian. Born in Prague during the Habsburg Empire, he was captured as a prisoner of war during World War I and held in Russia for five years...

    , U.S. political and social historian.

  • Michael Kraus, U.S. historian.
  • Leonard Krieger
    Leonard Krieger
    Leonard Krieger was an American historian of modern Europe, particularly known as an author on Germany. He was influential as an intellectual historian, and particularly for his discussion of historicism...

    , U.S. historian.
  • Hyman Kublin, U.S. historian of the far east.
  • Thomas Samuel Kuhn, U.S. historian of science.
  • Otto Kurz
    Otto Kurz
    Otto Kurz FBA was a historian and Slade Professor of Fine Arts, University of Oxford.-Career:...

    , historian (Jewish Year Book
    Jewish Year Book
    The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

     1975 p214)

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  • Gyula Lanczy, Hungarian economic historian.
  • David Landes
    David Landes
    David S. Landes is a professor emeritus of economics at Harvard University and retired professor of history at George Washington University. He is the author of Revolution in Time, The Unbound Prometheus, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, and Dynasties...

    , U.S. economic historian.
  • Benno Landsberger
    Benno Landsberger
    Benno Landsberger was one of the most important German Assyriologists.- Early life and education :...

    , Austrian born assyriologist.

  • Max Laserson, Latvian historian.

  • Sir Sidney Lee
    Sidney Lee
    Sir Sidney Lee was an English biographer and critic.He was born Solomon Lazarus Lee at 12 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London and educated at the City of London School and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in modern history in 1882. In the next year he became assistant-editor of the...

    , second editor of the Dictionary of National Biography
    Dictionary of National Biography
    The Dictionary of National Biography is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885...

      http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/Book/Cohen/gencul.html

  • Max Lerner
    Max Lerner
    Maxwell "Max" Alan Lerner was an American journalist and educator known for his controversial syndicated column....

    , U.S. journalist and social historian.
  • Joseph Levenson, U.S. specialist in Chinese history.
  • Wilhelm Levison
    Wilhelm Levison
    Wilhelm Levison was a German medievalist. He was well known as a contributor to Monumenta Germaniae Historica, especially for the vitae from the Merovingian era. He also edited Wilhelm Wattenbach's Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter...

    , German mediaevalist.
  • Yitzchak Levine
    Yitzchak Levine
    Dr. Yitzchok Levine is a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. During the 2000-01 academic year Professor Levine was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Mathematical Science at the United States Military Academy at...

    , columnist
  • Arthur Levy, French historian.
  • Leonard William Levy, U.S. political historian.
  • Paul Levy
    Paul Levy
    Paul Levy is a US/British author and journalist. He lives with his wife, Penelope Marcus, and children in Oxfordshire and London, UK....

    , French linguistic historian.
  • Bernard Lewis
    Bernard Lewis
    Bernard Lewis, FBA is a British-American historian, scholar in Oriental studies, and political commentator. He is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University...

    , British orientalist, History of Islam.
  • David Malcolm Lewis
    David Malcolm Lewis
    Dr. David Malcolm Lewis FBA was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford.-Biography:...

    , British historian. (Jewish Year Book
    Jewish Year Book
    The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

     1995 p. 193)
  • Felix Liebermann
    Felix Liebermann
    Felix Liebermann was a Jewish German historian, who is celebrated for his scholarly contributions to the study of medieval English history, particularly that of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman law. Born in 1851, Berlin, he came from a Jewish-German family and was the younger brother of the painter...

    , German mediaevalist.
  • Ephraim Lipson
    Ephraim Lipson
    Ephraim Lipson, or E. Lipson was a British economic historian.The son of a Jewish furniture dealer, Lipson attended Sheffield Royal Grammar School followed by Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a First class degree in History.He taught at Oxford University Cambridge...

    , British economic historian.
  • Deborah Lipstadt
    Deborah Lipstadt
    Deborah Esther Lipstadt, Ph.D. is an American historian and author of the book Denying the Holocaust and The Eichmann Trial. She is the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University...

    , U.S. Holocaust historian
  • 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
    John Lukacs
    John Adalbert Lukacs is a Hungarian-born American historian who has written more than thirty books, including Five Days in London, May 1940 and A New Republic...

    , 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.

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  • Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft, 2nd Baronet, biographer
  • Frank Manuel, U.S. historian.
  • Henrik Marczali, Hungarian historian.
  • Shula Marks
    Shula Marks
    Shula Eta Marks, OBE, FBA is emeritus professor of history at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London....

    , South Africa
    South Africa
    The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

    n-British
    Great Britain
    Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

     expert on African history (Jewish Year Book
    Jewish Year Book
    The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

     2005 p215)
  • Ludwig Markus, German expert in Abyssinian and Beta Israeli history.

  • Arno J. Mayer
    Arno J. Mayer
    Arno Joseph Mayer is a United States Marxist historian originally from Luxembourg, who specializes in modern Europe, diplomatic history, and the Holocaust, and is currently Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus, at Princeton University.-Early life and academic career:Mayer was born into a...

    , Luxembourg-born American historian.
  • Gustav Mayer, German political and social historian.

  • Mark Borisovich Mitin, Russian politician and historian.
  • Arnaldo Momigliano
    Arnaldo Momigliano
    Arnaldo Dante Momigliano KBE was an Italian historian known for his work in historiography, characterized by Donald Kagan as the "world’s leading student of the writing of history in the ancient world." He became Professor of Roman history at the University of Turin in 1936, but as a Jew soon lost...

    , Italian-British historian.(Jewish Year Book
    Jewish Year Book
    The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

     1985 p188)
  • Felice Momigliano, Italian philosopher and historian.

  • Richard Brandon Morris, U.S. constitutional historian.
  • Louis C. Morton, U.S. historian.
  • George Mosse
    George Mosse
    George Lachmann Mosse was a German-born American social and cultural historian. Mosse authored 25 books on a variety of fields, from English constitutional law, Lutheran theology, to the history of fascism, Jewish history, and the history of masculinity...

    , German-born American historian of ideas.

  • Friederich Munzer, German classical scholar.-->
  • Gustavus Myers
    Gustavus Myers
    Gustavus Myers was an American journalist and historian who published a series of influential studies on capital formation. His name is associated with the muckraking era of American literature.-Early years:...

    , U.S. social historian.

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  • Nadav Na`aman, Israeli historian of biblical times.
  • Oskar Nachod, German historian and bibliographer.
  • Lewis Bernstein Namier
    Lewis Bernstein Namier
    Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier was an English historian. He was born Ludwik Niemirowski in Wola Okrzejska in what was then part of the Russian Empire and is today in Poland.-Life:...

    , Polish-born British historian.
  • Abraham Nasatir
    Abraham Nasatir
    Abraham Phineas Nasatir was an American educator and historian who specialized in early California and the Mississippi Valley areas....

    , U.S. historian of west and southwest U.S. -->
  • Alexander Nove
    Alexander Nove
    Alexander Nove , FRSE, FBA was a Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow and a noted authority on Russian and Soviet economic history. According to Ian D...

    , economic historian (Jewish Year Book
    Jewish Year Book
    The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

     1990 p202)
  • Lynette Nusbacher, Canadian military historian.

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  • Sir Francis Palgrave
    Francis Palgrave
    Sir Francis Palgrave FRS, born Francis Ephraim Cohen, was an English historian.- Early life :He was born in London, the son of Meyer Cohen, a Jewish stockbroker by his wife Rachel Levien Cohen . He was initially articled as a clerk to a London solicitor's firm, and remained there as chief clerk...

    , British historian.
  • Erwin Panofsky
    Erwin Panofsky
    Erwin Panofsky was a German art historian, whose academic career was pursued mostly in the U.S. after the rise of the Nazi regime. Panofsky's work remains highly influential in the modern academic study of iconography...

    , German-born American art historian
  • Ilan Pappé
    Ilan Pappé
    Ilan Pappé is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the UK, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies, and political activist...

    , 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
    Richard Pipes
    Richard Edgar Pipes is an American academic who specializes in Russian history, particularly with respect to the Soviet Union...

    , Polish-born American historian of Russia.
  • Karl Polanyi
    Karl Polanyi
    Karl Paul Polanyi was a Hungarian philosopher, political economist and economic anthropologist known for his opposition to traditional economic thought and his book The Great Transformation...

    , economist and historian http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html

  • Sidney Pomerantz, U.S. historian.
  • Richard Popkin
    Richard Popkin
    Richard H. Popkin was an academic philosopher who specialized in the history of enlightenment philosophy and early modern anti-dogmatism. His 1960 work The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes introduced previously unrecognised influence on Western thought in the seventeenth century,...

    , historian of philosophy

  • Samuel A. Portnoy, American historian of Jewish and East European history http://www.fau.edu/40th/share_read.html
  • George Posener, French Egyptologist.
  • Sir Michael Postan, British historian. (Jewish Year Book
    Jewish Year Book
    The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

     1985 p188)
  • Joshua Prawer
    Joshua Prawer
    Joshua Prawer was a notable Israeli historian and a scholar of the Crusades and Kingdom of Jerusalem.His work often attempted to portray Crusader society as a forerunner to later European colonialist expansion...

    , Israeli historian of the kingdom of Jerusalem and the crusades.

  • Alfred Pribram
    Alfred Pribram
    Alfred Pribram was a Bohemian internist born in Prague. He was a brother of chemist Richard Pribram . His son was the internist Hugo Pribram ....

    , Austrian historian and publicist.
  • Jacob Psantir, Rumanian historian of the Jews.

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  • Theodore Rabb, Renaissance historian.

  • Armin Rappaport, U.S. historian.
  • Sidney Ratner, U.S. economic historian.

  • Ludwig Riess
    Ludwig Riess
    Ludwig Riess was a German-born historian and educator, noted for his work in late 19th century Japan.-Biography:...

    , German constitutional historian.

  • Samuele Romanin
    Samuele Romanin
    Samuele Romanin was an Italian historian.He was born of a poor Jewish family at Trieste. Being left an orphan at an early age, he provided for his younger brothers and sister by giving French and German lessons. In 1821 he settled in Venice, where he afterwards translated Hammer-Purgstall's...

    , Italian historian of classical Rome and Judaism.
  • Nello Roselli, Italian historian.

  • Arthur Rosenberg
    Arthur Rosenberg
    Arthur Rosenberg was a German Marxist historian and writer.-Life:Born into a German Jewish middle class family in Berlin in 1889, he excelled at the Gymnasium before studying at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin with Otto Hirschfeld and Eduard Meyer. Soon, he established himself as an...

    , 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
    Cecil Roth
    Cecil Roth , was a British Jewish historian.He was educated at Merton College, Oxford and returned to Oxford as reader in Jewish Studies from 1939 to 1964...

     http://www.jhom.com/personalities/dona_gracia/roth.htm, British historian and editor of the Encyclopaedia Judaica
    Encyclopaedia Judaica
    The Encyclopaedia Judaica is a 26-volume English-language encyclopedia of the Jewish people and their faith, Judaism. It covers diverse areas of the Jewish world and civilization, including Jewish history of all eras, culture, holidays, language, scripture, and religious teachings...



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

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  • David Abulafia
    David Abulafia
    David Samuel Harvard Abulafia is an influential English historian with a particular interest in Italy, Spain and the rest of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. He has been Professor of Mediterranean History at the University of Cambridge since 2000 and a Fellow of Gonville...

    , professor of history, University of Cambridge
    University of Cambridge
    The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

     (Jewish Year Book
    Jewish Year Book
    The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

     2005, p. 218)
  • Ignac Acsady, Hungarian social and economic historian.
  • Howard Adelson, U.S. mediaeval historian.
  • Cyrus Adler
    Cyrus Adler
    Cyrus Adler was a U.S. educator, Jewish religious leader and scholar.-Biography:Adler was born in Van Buren, Arkansas, a graduate of University of Pennsylvania in 1883 and gained a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1887, where he taught Semitic languages from 1884 to 1893...

    , U.S. historian of Jewish history.
  • Geoffrey Alderman
    Geoffrey Alderman
    Geoffrey Alderman is a British historian, especially of the Jewish community in England in the 19th and 20th centuries, and also an academic, political adviser and award-winning journalist.-Life:...

    , historian

  • Herbert Aptheker
    Herbert Aptheker
    Herbert Aptheker was an American Marxist historian and political activist. He authored over 50 volumes, mostly in the fields of African American history and general U.S. history, most notably, American Negro Slave Revolts , a classic in the field, and the 7-volume Documentary History of the Negro...

    , leader in Communist Party, historian

    • Yehoshua Arieli, Israeli historian.
    • Walter Leonard Arnstein, U.S. historian.
    • Raymond Aron
      Raymond Aron
      Raymond-Claude-Ferdinand Aron was a French philosopher, sociologist, journalist and political scientist.He is best known for his 1955 book The Opium of the Intellectuals, the title of which inverts Karl Marx's claim that religion was the opium of the people -- in contrast, Aron argued that in...

      , French historian of sociology.
    • Robert Aron
      Robert Aron
      Robert Aron was a French writer who authored a number of works on politics and history.-Early life:...

      , French author and journalist.

    • David Asheri, Israeli classical historian.
    • Simon Ashkenazi, Polish modern European history.

    • David Ayalon, Israeli historian of Islam and Judaism.

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    • Bernard Bailyn
      Bernard Bailyn
      Bernard Bailyn is an American historian, author, and professor specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He has been a professor at Harvard University since 1953. Bailyn has won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice . In 1998 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected...

      , U.S. Colonial historian.
    • Richard Barnett, museum curator and archaeologist (JYB 1985 p187)

  • George Louis Beer
    George Louis Beer
    George Louis Beer was an American historian.Born in Staten Island, New York, he achieved success in the tobacco business. He studied at Columbia University and lectured on European History there from 1893 to 1897. After retiring from business, he wrote three books on the British-American...

    , 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
    Norman Bentwich
    Norman De Mattos Bentwich OBE MC was a British barrister and legal academic who served as Legal Secretary and the first Attorney-General of Mandatory Palestine from 1918 to 1931. A lifelong Zionist, Bentwich was close to the moderate wing of the movement...

    , British lawyer and historian
  • Israil Bercovici
    Israil Bercovici
    Israil Bercovici was a Jewish Romanian dramaturg, playwright, director, biographer, and memoirist, who served the State Jewish Theater of Romania between 1955 to 1982; he also wrote Yiddish-language poetry.-Biography:...

    , Romanian playwright and historian
  • Jay R. Berkovitz
    Jay R. Berkovitz
    Jay R. Berkovitz is Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies and director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He earned a Ph.D. from Brandeis University and is a member of Congregation Shaarei Tefillah in Newton, Massachusetts, where he lives with his...

    , U.S. historian of Jews in France and early modern Europe

    • Harry Bernstein
      Harry Bernstein
      Harry Louis Bernstein was a British-born American writer whose first published book, The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers, dealt with his long suffering mother Ada's struggles to feed her six children; an abusive, alcoholic father, Yankel; the anti-Semitism Bernstein and his Jewish...

      , U.S. historian.
    • Elias Joseph Bickerman, U.S. scholar of ancient history.
    • Camille Bloch, French historian, archivist and librarian.
    • Gustave Bloch
      Gustave Bloch
      Gustave Bloch was a French Jewish historian of ancient history who was born in Fegersheim, a commune in the department of Bas-Rhin...

      , French Graeco-Roman historian.
    • Marc Bloch
      Marc Bloch
      Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch was a French historian who cofounded the highly influential Annales School of French social history. Bloch was a quintessential modernist. An assimilated Alsatian Jew from an academic family in Paris, he was deeply affected in his youth by the Dreyfus Affair...

      , French historian of medieval France.
    • Herbert Bloch
      Herbert Bloch
      Herbert Bloch was professor emeritus of Classics at Harvard and a renowned authority on Greek historiography, Roman epigraphy and archaeology, medieval monasticism, and the transmission of classical culture and literature....

      , German born American classicist.
    • Solomon Frank Bloom, U.S. historian of modern Europe.
    • Jerome Blum, U.S. historian.

    • Daniel Boorstin, U.S. historian; official historian at the Smithsonian Institution & the Library of Congress.,
    • Woodrow Wilson Borah, U.S. historian.
    • Ambrosio Brandao, Portuguese historian and soldier.

    • Harry Bresslau
      Harry Bresslau
      Harry Bresslau was a German historian and scholar of state papers and of historical and literary muniments .-Training:...

      , German historian.
    • Berthold Bretholz, Moravian historian.


    C

    • Norman Cantor
      Norman Cantor
      Norman Frank Cantor was a historian who specialized in the medieval period. Known for his accessible writing and engaging narrative style, Cantor's books were among the most widely-read treatments of medieval history in English...

      , mediaeval historian.,

    • Achille Coen, Italian historian.
    • David Cohen
      David Cohen
      David Cohen , was an American lawyer, Democratic civil servant and politician. For the last 26 years of his life, he was a Philadelphia city councilman representing the northwest district. Having served a four year term not consecutive to the other terms, he represented northwest Philadelphia for a...

      , Dutch historian and Jewish leader.
    • Gustave Cohen, Belgian historian of mediaeval French literature and theatre.
    • Mark Cohen
      Mark R. Cohen
      Mark R. Cohen is a professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University specializing in Jews in the Muslim world. He is a leading scholar of the history of Jews in the Middle Ages under Islam. His research relies greatly on documents from the Cairo Geniza...

      , American historian of the Jews under medieval Islam
    • Robert Cohen
      Robert Cohen
      Robert Cohen is a Canadian comedy writer. He was raised in Calgary, Alberta and has written for The Simpsons , The Wonder Years, The Ben Stiller Show, MADtv, Just Shoot Me!, Father of the Pride, and American Dad!...

      , French historian of ancient Greece.

  • Michael Confino, Israeli historian.


  • D

    • Robert Davidsohn, German historian of mediaeval Florence.

  • Hermann Dessau
    Hermann Dessau
    Hermann Dessau was a German ancient historian and epigrapher. He is noted for a key work of textual criticism published in 1889 on the Historia Augusta, which uncovered reasons to believe that this surviving text of ancient Roman imperial history had been written under circumstances very...

    , German historian and philologist.
  • Isaac Deutscher
    Isaac Deutscher
    Isaac Deutscher was a Polish-born Jewish Marxist writer, journalist and political activist who moved to the United Kingdom at the outbreak of World War II. He is best known as a biographer of Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin and as a commentator on Soviet affairs...

    , Polish-born British Marxist historian and political scientist.
  • Max Dimont
    Max Dimont
    Max I. Dimont was a Finnish American historian and author.- Biography :Born to a Jewish family in Helsinki, Finland, Dimont came to the United States in August 1929 with his mother and siblings - on the steerage passenger list of their ship, SS Berengaria, his place of birth is listed as Kovno,...

    , Max I. Dimont was a Finnish-American Jew and a popular historian and author.
  • Martin Duberman
    Martin Duberman
    Martin Bauml Duberman is an American historian, playwright, and gay-rights activist. He is Professor of History Emeritus at Lehman College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York and was the founder of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate School...

    , U.S. historian and playwright.

    • Ariel Durant
      Ariel Durant
      Ariel Durant was the co-author of The Story of Civilization.-Biography:Durant was born in Proskurov as Chaya Kaufman to Ethel Appel Kaufman and Joseph Kaufman. The family emigrated to the United States in 1901. She met her future husband, Will Durant, while a student at Ferrer Modern School in...

      , American historian; author of The Story of Civilization.

    E

    • Ludwig Edelstein
      Ludwig Edelstein
      Ludwig Edelstein was a classical scholar and historian of medicine. He left Germany in 1933, and took up an appointment at Johns Hopkins University in 1934...

      , ancient medicine.

    • Victor Ehrenberg
      Victor Ehrenberg (historian)
      Victor Ehrenberg was a German historian. He was the younger brother of Hans Ehrenberg and the nephew of the jurist Victor Ehrenberg.He was married to Eva Dorothea Ehrenberg, née Sommer ....

      , German historian of the ancient world.
    • Louis Eisenman, French historian of Europe.
    • Abraham Eisenstadt, U.S. historian.
    • Amos Elon
      Amos Elon
      -Biography:Amos Elon was born in Vienna. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1933. He studied law and history in Israel and England. He was married to Beth Elon, a New York-born literary agent, with whom he had one daughter, Danae. In the 1990s, Elon began to spend much of his time in Italy...

      , Vienna-born Israeli. Historian of Germany and modern Israel.
    • Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton
      Geoffrey Rudolph Elton
      Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton was a German-born British historian, who specialized in the Tudor period.- Upbringing :...

      , German-born British historian of Tudor England.
    • Carlo Errera, Italian geographer and historian of exploration.
    • Richard Ettinghausen
      Richard Ettinghausen
      Richard Ettinghausen was a historian of Islamic art and chief curator of the Freer Gallery.-Education:Ettinghausen received his Ph.D...

      , German-born US art historian

    F

    • Louis Filler
      Louis Filler
      Louis Filler , was an American teacher and a widely published scholar specializing in American studies....

      , U.S. historian.
    • Sidney Fine
      Sidney Fine (historian)
      Sidney Fine was a professor of history at the University of Michigan. He authored many books on Frank Murphy, who served successively as mayor of Detroit, governor of Michigan, U.S. attorney general and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was a Guggenheim Fellow and twice the winner...

      , U.S. historian.
    • Samuel Finer
      Samuel Finer
      Professor Samuel Edward Finer was a political scientist and historian who was instrumental in advancing political studies as an academic subject in the United Kingdom, pioneering the study of UK political institutions...

      , British political scientist and historian

    • Sir Moses I. Finley
      Moses I. Finley
      Sir Moses I. Finley CBE, FBA was an American and English classical scholar. His most notable work is The Ancient Economy , where he argued that status and civic ideology governed the economy in antiquity rather than rational economic motivations.-Early life and career:He was born in 1912 in New...

      , Classical Historian.

    • Robert Fogel
      Robert Fogel
      Robert William Fogel is an American economic historian and scientist, and winner of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is now the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions and director of the Center for Population Economics at the...

      , American economic historian and nobel laureate http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/nobels.html

    • Heinrich Friedjung
      Heinrich Friedjung
      Heinrich Friedjung was an Austrian historian and journalist.Friedjung was born in Roschtin , Moravia . The son of a Jewish family grew up in Vienna, and studied history in Prague and Berlin under Theodor Mommsen and Leopold von Ranke...

      , Moravian historian and politician.

    • Saul Friedländer
      Saul Friedländer
      Saul Friedländer is an award-winning Israeli historian and currently a professor of history at UCLA.-Biography:...

      , Czech-born French-Israeli historian of the Holocaust.
    • Alexander Fuks
      Alexander Fuks
      Alexander Fuks was a German-born, later Israeli historian, archaeologist and papyrologist. He worked with Victor Tcherikover and Menahem Stern on the standard edition of Jewish papyri. He was a specialist in the study of Hellenistic Judaism.-References:...

      , Israeli classical historian.

    G

    • Peter Gay
      Peter Gay
      Peter Gay is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers . Gay received the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction in 2004...

      , German-born American historian of ideas.
    • Leo Gershoy
      Leo Gershoy
      Leo Gershoy was a history professor at New York University 1940-1975. In his name the American Historical Association awards an annual prize for the best new book on 17th or 18th century European history. An annual lecture at New York University is also named for him.- Works :...

      , U.S. historian.
    • Felix Gilbert
      Felix Gilbert
      Felix Gilbert was a German-born American historian of early modern and modern Europe. Gilbert was born in Baden-Baden, Germany to a middle-class Jewish family, and part of the Mendelssohn Bartholdy clan. In the latter half of the 1920s, Gilbert studied under Friedrich Meinecke at the University of...

      , U.S. political historian.
    • Sir Martin Gilbert, British historian. http://www.martingilbert.com/
    • Carlo Ginzburg
      Carlo Ginzburg
      Carlo Ginzburg is a noted historian and proponent of the field of microhistory. He is best known for his Il formaggio e I vermi which examined the beliefs of an Italian heretic, Menocchio, from Montereale Valcellina.- Biography :The son of Natalia Ginzburg and Leone Ginzburg, he was born...

      , Italian historian. -->
    • Gustave Glotz
      Gustave Glotz
      Gustave Glotz was a French historian of ancient Greece. He was a supporter of the theory that history never follows a simple, logical course....

      , French ancient Greek historian.

    • Eric F. Goldman
      Eric F. Goldman
      Eric Frederick Goldman was an American historian, Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University, and Presidential advisor.-Life:...

      , U.S. modern historian.
    • Yosef Goldman
      Yosef Goldman
      Yosef Goldman is a scholar of American Jewish history and the author of the two-volume reference work, Hebrew Printing in America 1735-1926: A History and Annotated Bibliography . This work is usually cited by auctioneers and rare-book dealers...

      , author of Hebrew Printing in America
      Hebrew Printing in America
      Hebrew Printing in America, 1735-1926, A History and Annotated Bibliography is a history and bibliography of Hebrew books printed in America between 1735 and 1926 by Yosef Goldman, with research and editing by Ari Kinsberg...

    • Sir Ernst Gombrich
      Ernst Gombrich
      Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE was an Austrian-born art historian who became naturalized British citizen in 1947. He spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom...

      , Austrian-born British art historian.http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/arts/story/0,9848,587946,00.html
    • Martin Goodman (historian)
      Martin Goodman (historian)
      Martin David Goodman is a historian and writer on Roman history and the history and literature of the Jews in the Roman period....

       (Jewish Year Book
      Jewish Year Book
      The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

       2005 p215)

    • Louis Reichenthal Gottschalk, U.S. historian of modern Europe.

  • Philip Guedalla
    Philip Guedalla
    Philip Guedalla was a British barrister, and a popular historical and travel writer and biographer. His wit and epigrams are well-known, one example being "Even reviewers read a Preface," another being "History repeats itself...

    , biographer
  • Hans G. Guterbock, German born hittitologist.

  • H

    • Elie Halevy
      Élie Halévy
      Élie Halévy was a French philosopher and historian who wrote studies of the British utilitarians, a history of 19th-century England and the acclaimed book of essays, Era of Tyrannies.-Biography:...

      , French historian, "A History of the English People in the 19th century 1915-30".
    • George W. F. Hallgarten
      George W. F. Hallgarten
      George W. F. Hallgarten, or Georg Wolfgang Felix Hallgarten was a German-born American historian....

      , historian: "The German-Jewish historian, George Hallgarten" http://www.nsec-88.org/knihy/The-myth/19.html
    • Louis Halphen
      Louis Halphen
      Louis Sigismond Isaac Halphen was a French medieval specialist and the author of many important books over a long career...

      , French mediaevalist.
    • Theodore Stephen Hamerow, U.S. historian.
    • Marceli Handelsman
      Marceli Handelsman
      Marceli Handelsman was a Polish historian, a Warsaw University professor, medievalist, modern historian, and historical methodologist.-Life:Marceli Handelsman was born on 8 July 1882, in Warsaw, to a family of distant Jewish ancestry...

      , Polish constitutional and political historian.
    • Oscar Handlin
      Oscar Handlin
      Oscar Handlin was an American historian. As a professor of history at Harvard University for over 50 years, he directed 80 PhD dissertations and helped promote social and ethnic history...

      , U.S. social historian.

    • Henry Harrisse, U.S. historiographer.
    • Ludo Moritz Hartmann, Austrian historian and statesman.
    • Henri Hauser
      Henri Hauser
      Henri Hauser [ozer] , Algerian-born French economist, historian, geographer.He was a professor of ancient and medieval history at the University of Clermont-Ferrand , and modern history and geography at Dijon University , history at Sorbonne University , economic history at the University of Paris...

      , 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
      Raul Hilberg
      Raul Hilberg was an Austrian-born American political scientist and historian. He was widely considered to be the world's preeminent scholar of the Holocaust, and his three-volume, 1,273-page magnum opus, The Destruction of the European Jews, is regarded as a seminal study of the Nazi Final...

      , Austrian-born American Holocaust historian
    • Gertrude Himmelfarb
      Gertrude Himmelfarb
      Gertrude Himmelfarb , also known as Bea Kristol, is an American historian. She has written extensively on intellectual history, with a focus on Britain and the Victorian era, as well as on contemporary society and culture....

      , American historian of Victorian Britain.
    • Heinrich Otto Hirschfield, German Roman historian.
    • Eric Hobsbawm
      Eric Hobsbawm
      Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm , CH, FBA, is a British Marxist historian, public intellectual, and author...

      , Egyptian-born British Marxist historian.
    • Richard Hofstadter
      Richard Hofstadter
      Richard Hofstadter was an American public intellectual of the 1950s, a historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University...

      , U.S. political historian.

  • Samuel Justin Hurwitz, U.S. historian.
  • Harold Melvin Hyman, U.S. historian.

  • I

    • Siegfried Isaacsohn, German historian.
    • Jonathan Israel
      Jonathan Israel
      Professor Jonathan Irvine Israel is a British writer on Dutch history, the Age of Enlightenment and European Jewry. Israel was appointed the Modern European History Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Township, New Jersey, U.S...

      , British historian (Jewish Year Book
      Jewish Year Book
      The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

       2005, p. 215)

    J

    • Joseph Jacobs
      Joseph Jacobs
      Joseph Jacobs was a folklorist, literary critic and historian. His works included contributions to the Jewish Encyclopaedia, translations of European works, and critical editions of early English literature...

       http://www.northern.edu/hastingw/jacobs.htm, editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia
      Jewish Encyclopedia
      The Jewish Encyclopedia is an encyclopedia originally published in New York between 1901 and 1906 by Funk and Wagnalls. It contained over 15,000 articles in 12 volumes on the history and then-current state of Judaism and the Jews as of 1901...

    • Oscar Isaiah Janowsky, U.S. historian of modern Europe and Jews.
    • Lisa Jardine
      Lisa Jardine
      Lisa Anne Jardine CBE , née Lisa Anne Bronowski, is a British historian of the early modern period. She is professor of Renaissance Studies and Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, University of London, and is Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority...

      , British historian (ref see List of British Jews#Historians)
    • Louis de Jong, Dutch historian and journalist.
    • Matthew Josephson
      Matthew Josephson
      Matthew Josephson was an American journalist and author of works on nineteenth-century French literature and twentieth-century American economic history.-Biography:...

      , U.S. social historian.
    • Titus Flavius Josephus
      Josephus
      Titus Flavius Josephus , also called Joseph ben Matityahu , was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer of priestly and royal ancestry who recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD and the First Jewish–Roman War, which resulted in the Destruction of...

      , Ancient Jewish Historian.

    K

  • Ernst Kantorowicz
    Ernst Kantorowicz
    Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz was a German-Jewish historian of medieval political and intellectual history, known for his 1927 book Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite on Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, and in particular The King's Two Bodies .Kantorowicz was born in Posen to a wealthy, assimilated...

    , German-born American mediaevalist.

  • Solomon Katz, U.S. historian.
  • Elie Kedourie
    Elie Kedourie
    Elie Kedourie C.B.E., FBA was a British historian of the Middle East. He wrote from a conservative perspective, dissenting from many points of view taken as orthodox in the field...

    , Iraq-born British historian (Jewish Year Book
    Jewish Year Book
    The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

     1990 p202)
  • Morton Keller, U.S. historian.
  • James Klugmann
    James Klugmann
    Norman John Klugmann , generally known as James Klugmann, was a leading British Communist writer who became the official historian of the Communist Party of Great Britain-Background and Early Career:...

    , communist historian
  • Richard Koebner, Israeli German historian.
  • Hans Kohn
    Hans Kohn
    Hans Kohn was a Jewish philosopher and historian. Born in Prague during the Habsburg Empire, he was captured as a prisoner of war during World War I and held in Russia for five years...

    , U.S. political and social historian.

    • Michael Kraus, U.S. historian.
    • Leonard Krieger
      Leonard Krieger
      Leonard Krieger was an American historian of modern Europe, particularly known as an author on Germany. He was influential as an intellectual historian, and particularly for his discussion of historicism...

      , U.S. historian.
    • Hyman Kublin, U.S. historian of the far east.
    • Thomas Samuel Kuhn, U.S. historian of science.
    • Otto Kurz
      Otto Kurz
      Otto Kurz FBA was a historian and Slade Professor of Fine Arts, University of Oxford.-Career:...

      , historian (Jewish Year Book
      Jewish Year Book
      The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

       1975 p214)

    L

    • Gyula Lanczy, Hungarian economic historian.
    • David Landes
      David Landes
      David S. Landes is a professor emeritus of economics at Harvard University and retired professor of history at George Washington University. He is the author of Revolution in Time, The Unbound Prometheus, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, and Dynasties...

      , U.S. economic historian.
    • Benno Landsberger
      Benno Landsberger
      Benno Landsberger was one of the most important German Assyriologists.- Early life and education :...

      , Austrian born assyriologist.

  • Max Laserson, Latvian historian.

    • Sir Sidney Lee
      Sidney Lee
      Sir Sidney Lee was an English biographer and critic.He was born Solomon Lazarus Lee at 12 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London and educated at the City of London School and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in modern history in 1882. In the next year he became assistant-editor of the...

      , second editor of the Dictionary of National Biography
      Dictionary of National Biography
      The Dictionary of National Biography is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885...

        http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/Book/Cohen/gencul.html

  • Max Lerner
    Max Lerner
    Maxwell "Max" Alan Lerner was an American journalist and educator known for his controversial syndicated column....

    , U.S. journalist and social historian.
  • Joseph Levenson, U.S. specialist in Chinese history.
  • Wilhelm Levison
    Wilhelm Levison
    Wilhelm Levison was a German medievalist. He was well known as a contributor to Monumenta Germaniae Historica, especially for the vitae from the Merovingian era. He also edited Wilhelm Wattenbach's Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter...

    , German mediaevalist.
  • Yitzchak Levine
    Yitzchak Levine
    Dr. Yitzchok Levine is a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. During the 2000-01 academic year Professor Levine was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Mathematical Science at the United States Military Academy at...

    , columnist
  • Arthur Levy, French historian.
  • Leonard William Levy, U.S. political historian.
  • Paul Levy
    Paul Levy
    Paul Levy is a US/British author and journalist. He lives with his wife, Penelope Marcus, and children in Oxfordshire and London, UK....

    , French linguistic historian.
  • Bernard Lewis
    Bernard Lewis
    Bernard Lewis, FBA is a British-American historian, scholar in Oriental studies, and political commentator. He is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University...

    , British orientalist, History of Islam.
  • David Malcolm Lewis
    David Malcolm Lewis
    Dr. David Malcolm Lewis FBA was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford.-Biography:...

    , British historian. (Jewish Year Book
    Jewish Year Book
    The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

     1995 p. 193)
  • Felix Liebermann
    Felix Liebermann
    Felix Liebermann was a Jewish German historian, who is celebrated for his scholarly contributions to the study of medieval English history, particularly that of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman law. Born in 1851, Berlin, he came from a Jewish-German family and was the younger brother of the painter...

    , German mediaevalist.
  • Ephraim Lipson
    Ephraim Lipson
    Ephraim Lipson, or E. Lipson was a British economic historian.The son of a Jewish furniture dealer, Lipson attended Sheffield Royal Grammar School followed by Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a First class degree in History.He taught at Oxford University Cambridge...

    , British economic historian.
  • Deborah Lipstadt
    Deborah Lipstadt
    Deborah Esther Lipstadt, Ph.D. is an American historian and author of the book Denying the Holocaust and The Eichmann Trial. She is the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University...

    , U.S. Holocaust historian
  • 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
    John Lukacs
    John Adalbert Lukacs is a Hungarian-born American historian who has written more than thirty books, including Five Days in London, May 1940 and A New Republic...

    , 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


    • Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft, 2nd Baronet, biographer
    • Frank Manuel, U.S. historian.
    • Henrik Marczali, Hungarian historian.
    • Shula Marks
      Shula Marks
      Shula Eta Marks, OBE, FBA is emeritus professor of history at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London....

      , South Africa
      South Africa
      The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

      n-British
      Great Britain
      Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

       expert on African history (Jewish Year Book
      Jewish Year Book
      The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

       2005 p215)
    • Ludwig Markus, German expert in Abyssinian and Beta Israeli history.

  • Arno J. Mayer
    Arno J. Mayer
    Arno Joseph Mayer is a United States Marxist historian originally from Luxembourg, who specializes in modern Europe, diplomatic history, and the Holocaust, and is currently Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus, at Princeton University.-Early life and academic career:Mayer was born into a...

    , Luxembourg-born American historian.
  • Gustav Mayer, German political and social historian.

  • Mark Borisovich Mitin, Russian politician and historian.
  • Arnaldo Momigliano
    Arnaldo Momigliano
    Arnaldo Dante Momigliano KBE was an Italian historian known for his work in historiography, characterized by Donald Kagan as the "world’s leading student of the writing of history in the ancient world." He became Professor of Roman history at the University of Turin in 1936, but as a Jew soon lost...

    , Italian-British historian.(Jewish Year Book
    Jewish Year Book
    The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

     1985 p188)
  • Felice Momigliano, Italian philosopher and historian.

    • Richard Brandon Morris, U.S. constitutional historian.
    • Louis C. Morton, U.S. historian.
    • George Mosse
      George Mosse
      George Lachmann Mosse was a German-born American social and cultural historian. Mosse authored 25 books on a variety of fields, from English constitutional law, Lutheran theology, to the history of fascism, Jewish history, and the history of masculinity...

      , German-born American historian of ideas.

    • Friederich Munzer, German classical scholar.-->
    • Gustavus Myers
      Gustavus Myers
      Gustavus Myers was an American journalist and historian who published a series of influential studies on capital formation. His name is associated with the muckraking era of American literature.-Early years:...

      , U.S. social historian.

    N

    • Nadav Na`aman, Israeli historian of biblical times.
    • Oskar Nachod, German historian and bibliographer.
    • Lewis Bernstein Namier
      Lewis Bernstein Namier
      Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier was an English historian. He was born Ludwik Niemirowski in Wola Okrzejska in what was then part of the Russian Empire and is today in Poland.-Life:...

      , Polish-born British historian.
    • Abraham Nasatir
      Abraham Nasatir
      Abraham Phineas Nasatir was an American educator and historian who specialized in early California and the Mississippi Valley areas....

      , U.S. historian of west and southwest U.S. -->
    • Alexander Nove
      Alexander Nove
      Alexander Nove , FRSE, FBA was a Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow and a noted authority on Russian and Soviet economic history. According to Ian D...

      , economic historian (Jewish Year Book
      Jewish Year Book
      The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

       1990 p202)
    • Lynette Nusbacher, Canadian military historian.

    P

    • Sir Francis Palgrave
      Francis Palgrave
      Sir Francis Palgrave FRS, born Francis Ephraim Cohen, was an English historian.- Early life :He was born in London, the son of Meyer Cohen, a Jewish stockbroker by his wife Rachel Levien Cohen . He was initially articled as a clerk to a London solicitor's firm, and remained there as chief clerk...

      , British historian.
    • Erwin Panofsky
      Erwin Panofsky
      Erwin Panofsky was a German art historian, whose academic career was pursued mostly in the U.S. after the rise of the Nazi regime. Panofsky's work remains highly influential in the modern academic study of iconography...

      , German-born American art historian
    • Ilan Pappé
      Ilan Pappé
      Ilan Pappé is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the UK, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies, and political activist...

      , 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
      Richard Pipes
      Richard Edgar Pipes is an American academic who specializes in Russian history, particularly with respect to the Soviet Union...

      , Polish-born American historian of Russia.
    • Karl Polanyi
      Karl Polanyi
      Karl Paul Polanyi was a Hungarian philosopher, political economist and economic anthropologist known for his opposition to traditional economic thought and his book The Great Transformation...

      , economist and historian http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html

    • Sidney Pomerantz, U.S. historian.
    • Richard Popkin
      Richard Popkin
      Richard H. Popkin was an academic philosopher who specialized in the history of enlightenment philosophy and early modern anti-dogmatism. His 1960 work The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes introduced previously unrecognised influence on Western thought in the seventeenth century,...

      , historian of philosophy

    • Samuel A. Portnoy, American historian of Jewish and East European history http://www.fau.edu/40th/share_read.html
    • George Posener, French Egyptologist.
    • Sir Michael Postan, British historian. (Jewish Year Book
      Jewish Year Book
      The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

       1985 p188)
    • Joshua Prawer
      Joshua Prawer
      Joshua Prawer was a notable Israeli historian and a scholar of the Crusades and Kingdom of Jerusalem.His work often attempted to portray Crusader society as a forerunner to later European colonialist expansion...

      , Israeli historian of the kingdom of Jerusalem and the crusades.

    • Alfred Pribram
      Alfred Pribram
      Alfred Pribram was a Bohemian internist born in Prague. He was a brother of chemist Richard Pribram . His son was the internist Hugo 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
      Ludwig Riess
      Ludwig Riess was a German-born historian and educator, noted for his work in late 19th century Japan.-Biography:...

      , German constitutional historian.

  • Samuele Romanin
    Samuele Romanin
    Samuele Romanin was an Italian historian.He was born of a poor Jewish family at Trieste. Being left an orphan at an early age, he provided for his younger brothers and sister by giving French and German lessons. In 1821 he settled in Venice, where he afterwards translated Hammer-Purgstall's...

    , Italian historian of classical Rome and Judaism.
  • Nello Roselli, Italian historian.

    • Arthur Rosenberg
      Arthur Rosenberg
      Arthur Rosenberg was a German Marxist historian and writer.-Life:Born into a German Jewish middle class family in Berlin in 1889, he excelled at the Gymnasium before studying at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin with Otto Hirschfeld and Eduard Meyer. Soon, he established himself as an...

      , 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
      Cecil Roth
      Cecil Roth , was a British Jewish historian.He was educated at Merton College, Oxford and returned to Oxford as reader in Jewish Studies from 1939 to 1964...

       http://www.jhom.com/personalities/dona_gracia/roth.htm, British historian and editor of the Encyclopaedia Judaica
      Encyclopaedia Judaica
      The Encyclopaedia Judaica is a 26-volume English-language encyclopedia of the Jewish people and their faith, Judaism. It covers diverse areas of the Jewish world and civilization, including Jewish history of all eras, culture, holidays, language, scripture, and religious teachings...



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

    A

    • David Abulafia
      David Abulafia
      David Samuel Harvard Abulafia is an influential English historian with a particular interest in Italy, Spain and the rest of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. He has been Professor of Mediterranean History at the University of Cambridge since 2000 and a Fellow of Gonville...

      , professor of history, University of Cambridge
      University of Cambridge
      The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

       (Jewish Year Book
      Jewish Year Book
      The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

       2005, p. 218)
    • Ignac Acsady, Hungarian social and economic historian.
    • Howard Adelson, U.S. mediaeval historian.
    • Cyrus Adler
      Cyrus Adler
      Cyrus Adler was a U.S. educator, Jewish religious leader and scholar.-Biography:Adler was born in Van Buren, Arkansas, a graduate of University of Pennsylvania in 1883 and gained a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1887, where he taught Semitic languages from 1884 to 1893...

      , U.S. historian of Jewish history.
    • Geoffrey Alderman
      Geoffrey Alderman
      Geoffrey Alderman is a British historian, especially of the Jewish community in England in the 19th and 20th centuries, and also an academic, political adviser and award-winning journalist.-Life:...

      , historian

  • Herbert Aptheker
    Herbert Aptheker
    Herbert Aptheker was an American Marxist historian and political activist. He authored over 50 volumes, mostly in the fields of African American history and general U.S. history, most notably, American Negro Slave Revolts , a classic in the field, and the 7-volume Documentary History of the Negro...

    , leader in Communist Party, historian

    • Yehoshua Arieli, Israeli historian.
    • Walter Leonard Arnstein, U.S. historian.
    • Raymond Aron
      Raymond Aron
      Raymond-Claude-Ferdinand Aron was a French philosopher, sociologist, journalist and political scientist.He is best known for his 1955 book The Opium of the Intellectuals, the title of which inverts Karl Marx's claim that religion was the opium of the people -- in contrast, Aron argued that in...

      , French historian of sociology.
    • Robert Aron
      Robert Aron
      Robert Aron was a French writer who authored a number of works on politics and history.-Early life:...

      , 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
      Bernard Bailyn
      Bernard Bailyn is an American historian, author, and professor specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He has been a professor at Harvard University since 1953. Bailyn has won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice . In 1998 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected...

      , U.S. Colonial historian.
    • Richard Barnett, museum curator and archaeologist (JYB 1985 p187)

  • George Louis Beer
    George Louis Beer
    George Louis Beer was an American historian.Born in Staten Island, New York, he achieved success in the tobacco business. He studied at Columbia University and lectured on European History there from 1893 to 1897. After retiring from business, he wrote three books on the British-American...

    , 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
    Norman Bentwich
    Norman De Mattos Bentwich OBE MC was a British barrister and legal academic who served as Legal Secretary and the first Attorney-General of Mandatory Palestine from 1918 to 1931. A lifelong Zionist, Bentwich was close to the moderate wing of the movement...

    , British lawyer and historian
  • Israil Bercovici
    Israil Bercovici
    Israil Bercovici was a Jewish Romanian dramaturg, playwright, director, biographer, and memoirist, who served the State Jewish Theater of Romania between 1955 to 1982; he also wrote Yiddish-language poetry.-Biography:...

    , Romanian playwright and historian
  • Jay R. Berkovitz
    Jay R. Berkovitz
    Jay R. Berkovitz is Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies and director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He earned a Ph.D. from Brandeis University and is a member of Congregation Shaarei Tefillah in Newton, Massachusetts, where he lives with his...

    , U.S. historian of Jews in France and early modern Europe

    • Harry Bernstein
      Harry Bernstein
      Harry Louis Bernstein was a British-born American writer whose first published book, The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers, dealt with his long suffering mother Ada's struggles to feed her six children; an abusive, alcoholic father, Yankel; the anti-Semitism Bernstein and his Jewish...

      , U.S. historian.
    • Elias Joseph Bickerman, U.S. scholar of ancient history.
    • Camille Bloch, French historian, archivist and librarian.
    • Gustave Bloch
      Gustave Bloch
      Gustave Bloch was a French Jewish historian of ancient history who was born in Fegersheim, a commune in the department of Bas-Rhin...

      , French Graeco-Roman historian.
    • Marc Bloch
      Marc Bloch
      Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch was a French historian who cofounded the highly influential Annales School of French social history. Bloch was a quintessential modernist. An assimilated Alsatian Jew from an academic family in Paris, he was deeply affected in his youth by the Dreyfus Affair...

      , French historian of medieval France.
    • Herbert Bloch
      Herbert Bloch
      Herbert Bloch was professor emeritus of Classics at Harvard and a renowned authority on Greek historiography, Roman epigraphy and archaeology, medieval monasticism, and the transmission of classical culture and literature....

      , German born American classicist.
    • Solomon Frank Bloom, U.S. historian of modern Europe.
    • Jerome Blum, U.S. historian.

    • Daniel Boorstin, U.S. historian; official historian at the Smithsonian Institution & the Library of Congress.,
    • Woodrow Wilson Borah, U.S. historian.
    • Ambrosio Brandao, Portuguese historian and soldier.

    • Harry Bresslau
      Harry Bresslau
      Harry Bresslau was a German historian and scholar of state papers and of historical and literary muniments .-Training:...

      , German historian.
    • Berthold Bretholz, Moravian historian.


    C

    • Norman Cantor
      Norman Cantor
      Norman Frank Cantor was a historian who specialized in the medieval period. Known for his accessible writing and engaging narrative style, Cantor's books were among the most widely-read treatments of medieval history in English...

      , mediaeval historian.,

    • Achille Coen, Italian historian.
    • David Cohen
      David Cohen
      David Cohen , was an American lawyer, Democratic civil servant and politician. For the last 26 years of his life, he was a Philadelphia city councilman representing the northwest district. Having served a four year term not consecutive to the other terms, he represented northwest Philadelphia for a...

      , Dutch historian and Jewish leader.
    • Gustave Cohen, Belgian historian of mediaeval French literature and theatre.
    • Mark Cohen
      Mark R. Cohen
      Mark R. Cohen is a professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University specializing in Jews in the Muslim world. He is a leading scholar of the history of Jews in the Middle Ages under Islam. His research relies greatly on documents from the Cairo Geniza...

      , American historian of the Jews under medieval Islam
    • Robert Cohen
      Robert Cohen
      Robert Cohen is a Canadian comedy writer. He was raised in Calgary, Alberta and has written for The Simpsons , The Wonder Years, The Ben Stiller Show, MADtv, Just Shoot Me!, Father of the Pride, and American Dad!...

      , French historian of ancient Greece.

  • Michael Confino, Israeli historian.


  • D

    • Robert Davidsohn, German historian of mediaeval Florence.

  • Hermann Dessau
    Hermann Dessau
    Hermann Dessau was a German ancient historian and epigrapher. He is noted for a key work of textual criticism published in 1889 on the Historia Augusta, which uncovered reasons to believe that this surviving text of ancient Roman imperial history had been written under circumstances very...

    , German historian and philologist.
  • Isaac Deutscher
    Isaac Deutscher
    Isaac Deutscher was a Polish-born Jewish Marxist writer, journalist and political activist who moved to the United Kingdom at the outbreak of World War II. He is best known as a biographer of Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin and as a commentator on Soviet affairs...

    , Polish-born British Marxist historian and political scientist.
  • Max Dimont
    Max Dimont
    Max I. Dimont was a Finnish American historian and author.- Biography :Born to a Jewish family in Helsinki, Finland, Dimont came to the United States in August 1929 with his mother and siblings - on the steerage passenger list of their ship, SS Berengaria, his place of birth is listed as Kovno,...

    , Max I. Dimont was a Finnish-American Jew and a popular historian and author.
  • Martin Duberman
    Martin Duberman
    Martin Bauml Duberman is an American historian, playwright, and gay-rights activist. He is Professor of History Emeritus at Lehman College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York and was the founder of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate School...

    , U.S. historian and playwright.

    • Ariel Durant
      Ariel Durant
      Ariel Durant was the co-author of The Story of Civilization.-Biography:Durant was born in Proskurov as Chaya Kaufman to Ethel Appel Kaufman and Joseph Kaufman. The family emigrated to the United States in 1901. She met her future husband, Will Durant, while a student at Ferrer Modern School in...

      , American historian; author of The Story of Civilization.

    E

    • Ludwig Edelstein
      Ludwig Edelstein
      Ludwig Edelstein was a classical scholar and historian of medicine. He left Germany in 1933, and took up an appointment at Johns Hopkins University in 1934...

      , ancient medicine.

    • Victor Ehrenberg
      Victor Ehrenberg (historian)
      Victor Ehrenberg was a German historian. He was the younger brother of Hans Ehrenberg and the nephew of the jurist Victor Ehrenberg.He was married to Eva Dorothea Ehrenberg, née Sommer ....

      , German historian of the ancient world.
    • Louis Eisenman, French historian of Europe.
    • Abraham Eisenstadt, U.S. historian.
    • Amos Elon
      Amos Elon
      -Biography:Amos Elon was born in Vienna. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1933. He studied law and history in Israel and England. He was married to Beth Elon, a New York-born literary agent, with whom he had one daughter, Danae. In the 1990s, Elon began to spend much of his time in Italy...

      , Vienna-born Israeli. Historian of Germany and modern Israel.
    • Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton
      Geoffrey Rudolph Elton
      Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton was a German-born British historian, who specialized in the Tudor period.- Upbringing :...

      , German-born British historian of Tudor England.
    • Carlo Errera, Italian geographer and historian of exploration.
    • Richard Ettinghausen
      Richard Ettinghausen
      Richard Ettinghausen was a historian of Islamic art and chief curator of the Freer Gallery.-Education:Ettinghausen received his Ph.D...

      , German-born US art historian

    F

    • Louis Filler
      Louis Filler
      Louis Filler , was an American teacher and a widely published scholar specializing in American studies....

      , U.S. historian.
    • Sidney Fine
      Sidney Fine (historian)
      Sidney Fine was a professor of history at the University of Michigan. He authored many books on Frank Murphy, who served successively as mayor of Detroit, governor of Michigan, U.S. attorney general and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was a Guggenheim Fellow and twice the winner...

      , U.S. historian.
    • Samuel Finer
      Samuel Finer
      Professor Samuel Edward Finer was a political scientist and historian who was instrumental in advancing political studies as an academic subject in the United Kingdom, pioneering the study of UK political institutions...

      , British political scientist and historian

    • Sir Moses I. Finley
      Moses I. Finley
      Sir Moses I. Finley CBE, FBA was an American and English classical scholar. His most notable work is The Ancient Economy , where he argued that status and civic ideology governed the economy in antiquity rather than rational economic motivations.-Early life and career:He was born in 1912 in New...

      , Classical Historian.

    • Robert Fogel
      Robert Fogel
      Robert William Fogel is an American economic historian and scientist, and winner of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is now the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions and director of the Center for Population Economics at the...

      , American economic historian and nobel laureate http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/nobels.html

    • Heinrich Friedjung
      Heinrich Friedjung
      Heinrich Friedjung was an Austrian historian and journalist.Friedjung was born in Roschtin , Moravia . The son of a Jewish family grew up in Vienna, and studied history in Prague and Berlin under Theodor Mommsen and Leopold von Ranke...

      , Moravian historian and politician.

    • Saul Friedländer
      Saul Friedländer
      Saul Friedländer is an award-winning Israeli historian and currently a professor of history at UCLA.-Biography:...

      , Czech-born French-Israeli historian of the Holocaust.
    • Alexander Fuks
      Alexander Fuks
      Alexander Fuks was a German-born, later Israeli historian, archaeologist and papyrologist. He worked with Victor Tcherikover and Menahem Stern on the standard edition of Jewish papyri. He was a specialist in the study of Hellenistic Judaism.-References:...

      , Israeli classical historian.

    G

    • Peter Gay
      Peter Gay
      Peter Gay is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers . Gay received the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction in 2004...

      , German-born American historian of ideas.
    • Leo Gershoy
      Leo Gershoy
      Leo Gershoy was a history professor at New York University 1940-1975. In his name the American Historical Association awards an annual prize for the best new book on 17th or 18th century European history. An annual lecture at New York University is also named for him.- Works :...

      , U.S. historian.
    • Felix Gilbert
      Felix Gilbert
      Felix Gilbert was a German-born American historian of early modern and modern Europe. Gilbert was born in Baden-Baden, Germany to a middle-class Jewish family, and part of the Mendelssohn Bartholdy clan. In the latter half of the 1920s, Gilbert studied under Friedrich Meinecke at the University of...

      , U.S. political historian.
    • Sir Martin Gilbert, British historian. http://www.martingilbert.com/
    • Carlo Ginzburg
      Carlo Ginzburg
      Carlo Ginzburg is a noted historian and proponent of the field of microhistory. He is best known for his Il formaggio e I vermi which examined the beliefs of an Italian heretic, Menocchio, from Montereale Valcellina.- Biography :The son of Natalia Ginzburg and Leone Ginzburg, he was born...

      , Italian historian. -->
    • Gustave Glotz
      Gustave Glotz
      Gustave Glotz was a French historian of ancient Greece. He was a supporter of the theory that history never follows a simple, logical course....

      , French ancient Greek historian.

    • Eric F. Goldman
      Eric F. Goldman
      Eric Frederick Goldman was an American historian, Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University, and Presidential advisor.-Life:...

      , U.S. modern historian.
    • Yosef Goldman
      Yosef Goldman
      Yosef Goldman is a scholar of American Jewish history and the author of the two-volume reference work, Hebrew Printing in America 1735-1926: A History and Annotated Bibliography . This work is usually cited by auctioneers and rare-book dealers...

      , author of Hebrew Printing in America
      Hebrew Printing in America
      Hebrew Printing in America, 1735-1926, A History and Annotated Bibliography is a history and bibliography of Hebrew books printed in America between 1735 and 1926 by Yosef Goldman, with research and editing by Ari Kinsberg...

    • Sir Ernst Gombrich
      Ernst Gombrich
      Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE was an Austrian-born art historian who became naturalized British citizen in 1947. He spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom...

      , Austrian-born British art historian.http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/arts/story/0,9848,587946,00.html
    • Martin Goodman (historian)
      Martin Goodman (historian)
      Martin David Goodman is a historian and writer on Roman history and the history and literature of the Jews in the Roman period....

       (Jewish Year Book
      Jewish Year Book
      The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

       2005 p215)

    • Louis Reichenthal Gottschalk, U.S. historian of modern Europe.

  • Philip Guedalla
    Philip Guedalla
    Philip Guedalla was a British barrister, and a popular historical and travel writer and biographer. His wit and epigrams are well-known, one example being "Even reviewers read a Preface," another being "History repeats itself...

    , biographer
  • Hans G. Guterbock, German born hittitologist.

  • H

    • Elie Halevy
      Élie Halévy
      Élie Halévy was a French philosopher and historian who wrote studies of the British utilitarians, a history of 19th-century England and the acclaimed book of essays, Era of Tyrannies.-Biography:...

      , French historian, "A History of the English People in the 19th century 1915-30".
    • George W. F. Hallgarten
      George W. F. Hallgarten
      George W. F. Hallgarten, or Georg Wolfgang Felix Hallgarten was a German-born American historian....

      , historian: "The German-Jewish historian, George Hallgarten" http://www.nsec-88.org/knihy/The-myth/19.html
    • Louis Halphen
      Louis Halphen
      Louis Sigismond Isaac Halphen was a French medieval specialist and the author of many important books over a long career...

      , French mediaevalist.
    • Theodore Stephen Hamerow, U.S. historian.
    • Marceli Handelsman
      Marceli Handelsman
      Marceli Handelsman was a Polish historian, a Warsaw University professor, medievalist, modern historian, and historical methodologist.-Life:Marceli Handelsman was born on 8 July 1882, in Warsaw, to a family of distant Jewish ancestry...

      , Polish constitutional and political historian.
    • Oscar Handlin
      Oscar Handlin
      Oscar Handlin was an American historian. As a professor of history at Harvard University for over 50 years, he directed 80 PhD dissertations and helped promote social and ethnic history...

      , U.S. social historian.

    • Henry Harrisse, U.S. historiographer.
    • Ludo Moritz Hartmann, Austrian historian and statesman.
    • Henri Hauser
      Henri Hauser
      Henri Hauser [ozer] , Algerian-born French economist, historian, geographer.He was a professor of ancient and medieval history at the University of Clermont-Ferrand , and modern history and geography at Dijon University , history at Sorbonne University , economic history at the University of Paris...

      , 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
      Raul Hilberg
      Raul Hilberg was an Austrian-born American political scientist and historian. He was widely considered to be the world's preeminent scholar of the Holocaust, and his three-volume, 1,273-page magnum opus, The Destruction of the European Jews, is regarded as a seminal study of the Nazi Final...

      , Austrian-born American Holocaust historian
    • Gertrude Himmelfarb
      Gertrude Himmelfarb
      Gertrude Himmelfarb , also known as Bea Kristol, is an American historian. She has written extensively on intellectual history, with a focus on Britain and the Victorian era, as well as on contemporary society and culture....

      , American historian of Victorian Britain.
    • Heinrich Otto Hirschfield, German Roman historian.
    • Eric Hobsbawm
      Eric Hobsbawm
      Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm , CH, FBA, is a British Marxist historian, public intellectual, and author...

      , Egyptian-born British Marxist historian.
    • Richard Hofstadter
      Richard Hofstadter
      Richard Hofstadter was an American public intellectual of the 1950s, a historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University...

      , U.S. political historian.

  • Samuel Justin Hurwitz, U.S. historian.
  • Harold Melvin Hyman, U.S. historian.

  • I

    • Siegfried Isaacsohn, German historian.
    • Jonathan Israel
      Jonathan Israel
      Professor Jonathan Irvine Israel is a British writer on Dutch history, the Age of Enlightenment and European Jewry. Israel was appointed the Modern European History Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Township, New Jersey, U.S...

      , British historian (Jewish Year Book
      Jewish Year Book
      The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

       2005, p. 215)

    J

    • Joseph Jacobs
      Joseph Jacobs
      Joseph Jacobs was a folklorist, literary critic and historian. His works included contributions to the Jewish Encyclopaedia, translations of European works, and critical editions of early English literature...

       http://www.northern.edu/hastingw/jacobs.htm, editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia
      Jewish Encyclopedia
      The Jewish Encyclopedia is an encyclopedia originally published in New York between 1901 and 1906 by Funk and Wagnalls. It contained over 15,000 articles in 12 volumes on the history and then-current state of Judaism and the Jews as of 1901...

    • Oscar Isaiah Janowsky, U.S. historian of modern Europe and Jews.
    • Lisa Jardine
      Lisa Jardine
      Lisa Anne Jardine CBE , née Lisa Anne Bronowski, is a British historian of the early modern period. She is professor of Renaissance Studies and Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, University of London, and is Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority...

      , British historian (ref see List of British Jews#Historians)
    • Louis de Jong, Dutch historian and journalist.
    • Matthew Josephson
      Matthew Josephson
      Matthew Josephson was an American journalist and author of works on nineteenth-century French literature and twentieth-century American economic history.-Biography:...

      , U.S. social historian.
    • Titus Flavius Josephus
      Josephus
      Titus Flavius Josephus , also called Joseph ben Matityahu , was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer of priestly and royal ancestry who recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD and the First Jewish–Roman War, which resulted in the Destruction of...

      , Ancient Jewish Historian.

    K

  • Ernst Kantorowicz
    Ernst Kantorowicz
    Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz was a German-Jewish historian of medieval political and intellectual history, known for his 1927 book Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite on Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, and in particular The King's Two Bodies .Kantorowicz was born in Posen to a wealthy, assimilated...

    , German-born American mediaevalist.

  • Solomon Katz, U.S. historian.
  • Elie Kedourie
    Elie Kedourie
    Elie Kedourie C.B.E., FBA was a British historian of the Middle East. He wrote from a conservative perspective, dissenting from many points of view taken as orthodox in the field...

    , Iraq-born British historian (Jewish Year Book
    Jewish Year Book
    The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

     1990 p202)
  • Morton Keller, U.S. historian.
  • James Klugmann
    James Klugmann
    Norman John Klugmann , generally known as James Klugmann, was a leading British Communist writer who became the official historian of the Communist Party of Great Britain-Background and Early Career:...

    , communist historian
  • Richard Koebner, Israeli German historian.
  • Hans Kohn
    Hans Kohn
    Hans Kohn was a Jewish philosopher and historian. Born in Prague during the Habsburg Empire, he was captured as a prisoner of war during World War I and held in Russia for five years...

    , U.S. political and social historian.

    • Michael Kraus, U.S. historian.
    • Leonard Krieger
      Leonard Krieger
      Leonard Krieger was an American historian of modern Europe, particularly known as an author on Germany. He was influential as an intellectual historian, and particularly for his discussion of historicism...

      , U.S. historian.
    • Hyman Kublin, U.S. historian of the far east.
    • Thomas Samuel Kuhn, U.S. historian of science.
    • Otto Kurz
      Otto Kurz
      Otto Kurz FBA was a historian and Slade Professor of Fine Arts, University of Oxford.-Career:...

      , historian (Jewish Year Book
      Jewish Year Book
      The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

       1975 p214)

    L

    • Gyula Lanczy, Hungarian economic historian.
    • David Landes
      David Landes
      David S. Landes is a professor emeritus of economics at Harvard University and retired professor of history at George Washington University. He is the author of Revolution in Time, The Unbound Prometheus, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, and Dynasties...

      , U.S. economic historian.
    • Benno Landsberger
      Benno Landsberger
      Benno Landsberger was one of the most important German Assyriologists.- Early life and education :...

      , Austrian born assyriologist.

  • Max Laserson, Latvian historian.

    • Sir Sidney Lee
      Sidney Lee
      Sir Sidney Lee was an English biographer and critic.He was born Solomon Lazarus Lee at 12 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London and educated at the City of London School and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in modern history in 1882. In the next year he became assistant-editor of the...

      , second editor of the Dictionary of National Biography
      Dictionary of National Biography
      The Dictionary of National Biography is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885...

        http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/Book/Cohen/gencul.html

  • Max Lerner
    Max Lerner
    Maxwell "Max" Alan Lerner was an American journalist and educator known for his controversial syndicated column....

    , U.S. journalist and social historian.
  • Joseph Levenson, U.S. specialist in Chinese history.
  • Wilhelm Levison
    Wilhelm Levison
    Wilhelm Levison was a German medievalist. He was well known as a contributor to Monumenta Germaniae Historica, especially for the vitae from the Merovingian era. He also edited Wilhelm Wattenbach's Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter...

    , German mediaevalist.
  • Yitzchak Levine
    Yitzchak Levine
    Dr. Yitzchok Levine is a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. During the 2000-01 academic year Professor Levine was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Mathematical Science at the United States Military Academy at...

    , columnist
  • Arthur Levy, French historian.
  • Leonard William Levy, U.S. political historian.
  • Paul Levy
    Paul Levy
    Paul Levy is a US/British author and journalist. He lives with his wife, Penelope Marcus, and children in Oxfordshire and London, UK....

    , French linguistic historian.
  • Bernard Lewis
    Bernard Lewis
    Bernard Lewis, FBA is a British-American historian, scholar in Oriental studies, and political commentator. He is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University...

    , British orientalist, History of Islam.
  • David Malcolm Lewis
    David Malcolm Lewis
    Dr. David Malcolm Lewis FBA was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford.-Biography:...

    , British historian. (Jewish Year Book
    Jewish Year Book
    The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

     1995 p. 193)
  • Felix Liebermann
    Felix Liebermann
    Felix Liebermann was a Jewish German historian, who is celebrated for his scholarly contributions to the study of medieval English history, particularly that of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman law. Born in 1851, Berlin, he came from a Jewish-German family and was the younger brother of the painter...

    , German mediaevalist.
  • Ephraim Lipson
    Ephraim Lipson
    Ephraim Lipson, or E. Lipson was a British economic historian.The son of a Jewish furniture dealer, Lipson attended Sheffield Royal Grammar School followed by Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a First class degree in History.He taught at Oxford University Cambridge...

    , British economic historian.
  • Deborah Lipstadt
    Deborah Lipstadt
    Deborah Esther Lipstadt, Ph.D. is an American historian and author of the book Denying the Holocaust and The Eichmann Trial. She is the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University...

    , U.S. Holocaust historian
  • 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
    John Lukacs
    John Adalbert Lukacs is a Hungarian-born American historian who has written more than thirty books, including Five Days in London, May 1940 and A New Republic...

    , 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


    • Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft, 2nd Baronet, biographer
    • Frank Manuel, U.S. historian.
    • Henrik Marczali, Hungarian historian.
    • Shula Marks
      Shula Marks
      Shula Eta Marks, OBE, FBA is emeritus professor of history at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London....

      , South Africa
      South Africa
      The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

      n-British
      Great Britain
      Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

       expert on African history (Jewish Year Book
      Jewish Year Book
      The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

       2005 p215)
    • Ludwig Markus, German expert in Abyssinian and Beta Israeli history.

  • Arno J. Mayer
    Arno J. Mayer
    Arno Joseph Mayer is a United States Marxist historian originally from Luxembourg, who specializes in modern Europe, diplomatic history, and the Holocaust, and is currently Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus, at Princeton University.-Early life and academic career:Mayer was born into a...

    , Luxembourg-born American historian.
  • Gustav Mayer, German political and social historian.

  • Mark Borisovich Mitin, Russian politician and historian.
  • Arnaldo Momigliano
    Arnaldo Momigliano
    Arnaldo Dante Momigliano KBE was an Italian historian known for his work in historiography, characterized by Donald Kagan as the "world’s leading student of the writing of history in the ancient world." He became Professor of Roman history at the University of Turin in 1936, but as a Jew soon lost...

    , Italian-British historian.(Jewish Year Book
    Jewish Year Book
    The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

     1985 p188)
  • Felice Momigliano, Italian philosopher and historian.

    • Richard Brandon Morris, U.S. constitutional historian.
    • Louis C. Morton, U.S. historian.
    • George Mosse
      George Mosse
      George Lachmann Mosse was a German-born American social and cultural historian. Mosse authored 25 books on a variety of fields, from English constitutional law, Lutheran theology, to the history of fascism, Jewish history, and the history of masculinity...

      , German-born American historian of ideas.

    • Friederich Munzer, German classical scholar.-->
    • Gustavus Myers
      Gustavus Myers
      Gustavus Myers was an American journalist and historian who published a series of influential studies on capital formation. His name is associated with the muckraking era of American literature.-Early years:...

      , U.S. social historian.

    N

    • Nadav Na`aman, Israeli historian of biblical times.
    • Oskar Nachod, German historian and bibliographer.
    • Lewis Bernstein Namier
      Lewis Bernstein Namier
      Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier was an English historian. He was born Ludwik Niemirowski in Wola Okrzejska in what was then part of the Russian Empire and is today in Poland.-Life:...

      , Polish-born British historian.
    • Abraham Nasatir
      Abraham Nasatir
      Abraham Phineas Nasatir was an American educator and historian who specialized in early California and the Mississippi Valley areas....

      , U.S. historian of west and southwest U.S. -->
    • Alexander Nove
      Alexander Nove
      Alexander Nove , FRSE, FBA was a Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow and a noted authority on Russian and Soviet economic history. According to Ian D...

      , economic historian (Jewish Year Book
      Jewish Year Book
      The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

       1990 p202)
    • Lynette Nusbacher, Canadian military historian.

    P

    • Sir Francis Palgrave
      Francis Palgrave
      Sir Francis Palgrave FRS, born Francis Ephraim Cohen, was an English historian.- Early life :He was born in London, the son of Meyer Cohen, a Jewish stockbroker by his wife Rachel Levien Cohen . He was initially articled as a clerk to a London solicitor's firm, and remained there as chief clerk...

      , British historian.
    • Erwin Panofsky
      Erwin Panofsky
      Erwin Panofsky was a German art historian, whose academic career was pursued mostly in the U.S. after the rise of the Nazi regime. Panofsky's work remains highly influential in the modern academic study of iconography...

      , German-born American art historian
    • Ilan Pappé
      Ilan Pappé
      Ilan Pappé is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the UK, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies, and political activist...

      , 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
      Richard Pipes
      Richard Edgar Pipes is an American academic who specializes in Russian history, particularly with respect to the Soviet Union...

      , Polish-born American historian of Russia.
    • Karl Polanyi
      Karl Polanyi
      Karl Paul Polanyi was a Hungarian philosopher, political economist and economic anthropologist known for his opposition to traditional economic thought and his book The Great Transformation...

      , economist and historian http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html

    • Sidney Pomerantz, U.S. historian.
    • Richard Popkin
      Richard Popkin
      Richard H. Popkin was an academic philosopher who specialized in the history of enlightenment philosophy and early modern anti-dogmatism. His 1960 work The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes introduced previously unrecognised influence on Western thought in the seventeenth century,...

      , historian of philosophy

    • Samuel A. Portnoy, American historian of Jewish and East European history http://www.fau.edu/40th/share_read.html
    • George Posener, French Egyptologist.
    • Sir Michael Postan, British historian. (Jewish Year Book
      Jewish Year Book
      The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...

       1985 p188)
    • Joshua Prawer
      Joshua Prawer
      Joshua Prawer was a notable Israeli historian and a scholar of the Crusades and Kingdom of Jerusalem.His work often attempted to portray Crusader society as a forerunner to later European colonialist expansion...

      , Israeli historian of the kingdom of Jerusalem and the crusades.

    • Alfred Pribram
      Alfred Pribram
      Alfred Pribram was a Bohemian internist born in Prague. He was a brother of chemist Richard Pribram . His son was the internist Hugo 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
      Ludwig Riess
      Ludwig Riess was a German-born historian and educator, noted for his work in late 19th century Japan.-Biography:...

      , German constitutional historian.

  • Samuele Romanin
    Samuele Romanin
    Samuele Romanin was an Italian historian.He was born of a poor Jewish family at Trieste. Being left an orphan at an early age, he provided for his younger brothers and sister by giving French and German lessons. In 1821 he settled in Venice, where he afterwards translated Hammer-Purgstall's...

    , Italian historian of classical Rome and Judaism.
  • Nello Roselli, Italian historian.

    • Arthur Rosenberg
      Arthur Rosenberg
      Arthur Rosenberg was a German Marxist historian and writer.-Life:Born into a German Jewish middle class family in Berlin in 1889, he excelled at the Gymnasium before studying at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin with Otto Hirschfeld and Eduard Meyer. Soon, he established himself as an...

      , 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
      Cecil Roth
      Cecil Roth , was a British Jewish historian.He was educated at Merton College, Oxford and returned to Oxford as reader in Jewish Studies from 1939 to 1964...

       http://www.jhom.com/personalities/dona_gracia/roth.htm, British historian and editor of the Encyclopaedia Judaica
      Encyclopaedia Judaica
      The Encyclopaedia Judaica is a 26-volume English-language encyclopedia of the Jewish people and their faith, Judaism. It covers diverse areas of the Jewish world and civilization, including Jewish history of all eras, culture, holidays, language, scripture, and religious teachings...



    S

  • Julius Salomon, Danish historian and archivist.
  • Simon Schama
    Simon Schama
    Simon Michael Schama, CBE is a British historian and art historian. He is a University Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University. He is best known for writing and hosting the 15-part BBC documentary series A History of Britain...

     http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/history/historian/Simon_Schama.html, British historian
  • J. Salwyn Schapiro
    J. Salwyn Schapiro
    Jacob Salwyn Schapiro was a Professor Emeritus of History at the City College of New York.-Work:In his book, Liberalism and the Challenge of Fascism, Schapiro set out to discuss the changes in both England and France. Prof...

    , American historian of modern Europe.
  • Leonard Schapiro
    Leonard Schapiro
    Leonard Bertram Naman Schapiro was a British academic and scholar of Russian politics. He taught for many years at the London School of Economics, where he was Professor of Political Science with Special Reference to Russian Studies...

    , historian
  • Meyer Schapiro
    Meyer Schapiro
    Meyer Schapiro was a Lithuanian-born American art historian known for forging new art historical methodologies that incorporated an interdisciplinary approach to the study of works of art...

    , Lithuanian-born American art historian
  • David Schoenbaum
    David Schoenbaum
    David Schoenbaum is an American social scientist and historian.He was teaching as a professor of History at the University of Iowa until 2008. Schoenbaum received his BA at the University of Wisconsin–Madison...

    , modern German history.
  • Moses Schorr
    Moses Schorr
    Moses Schorr, Polish: Mojżesz Schorr was a Rabbi, Polish historian, politician, Bible scholar, assyriologist and orientalist. Schorr was one of the top experts on the history of the Jews in Poland. He was the first Jewish researcher of Polish archives, historical sources, and pinkasim...

    , historian of Polish Jews
  • Debra Schultz, American feminist historian
  • Yossi Schwartz, The Origins of The Jews Y&R Gitam = CEO
  • Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
    Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
    Hugh Sebag-Montefiore is a British writer. He trained as a barrister before becoming a journalist and then a non-fiction writer. His second book "Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man" was published in 2006...

     http://amazon.co.uk/s?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=hugh+sebag+montefiore, British WW2 historian.
  • Simon Sebag Montefiore
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
    Simon Jonathan Sebag Montefiore is a British historian and writer.-Family history:Simon's father, a doctor, is descended from a famous line of wealthy Sephardic Jews who became diplomats and bankers all over Europe...

     http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400076789&view=qa, British historian of Russia.
  • Tom Segev
    Tom Segev
    Tom Segev is an Israeli historian, author and journalist. He is associated with Israel's so-called New Historians, a group challenging many of the country's traditional narratives.-Early life:Segev was born in Jerusalem in 1945...

    , Israeli historian.
  • Arturo Segre, Italian political and commercial historian.
  • Avraham Sela
    Avraham Sela
    Avraham Sela is a scholar on the Middle East and international relations, currently the A. Ephraim and Shirley Diamond Professor of International Relations and a senior research fellow at the Harry S...

    , Israeli historian.
  • Enrique Semo, Mexican historian.
  • Bernard Semmel
    Bernard Semmel
    Bernard Semmel was an American historian specialising in British imperial history.-Works:*Imperialism and Social Reform: English Social-Imperial Thought, 1895–1914 ....

    , U.S. historian.
  • Michael Shamah, British Archaeologist
  • Moshe Shamir
    Moshe Shamir
    Moshe Shamir was an Israeli author, playwright, opinion writer, and public figure.-Biography:...

    , Israeli writer and historian.
  • Leeor Shimron, American historian.
  • Avi Shlaim
    Avi Shlaim
    Avi Shlaim FBA is a British/Israeli historian. He is a professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and a fellow of the British Academy.Shlaim is especially well known as a historian of the Arab-Israeli conflict...

    , Israeli historian.
  • Joseph Shulim, U.S. historian.
  • Bernhard von Simson, German mediaevalist.
  • Paul Simson, German historian.
  • Charles Singer
    Charles Singer
    Charles Joseph Singer was a British historian of science, technology, and medicine.-Early years:Singer was born in Camberwell in London, where his father Simeon Singer was a minister and Hebraist. He was educated at City of London School, University College London, and Magdalen College, Oxford...

    , British historian of science and medicine.
  • Ephraim Avigdor Speiser
    Ephraim Avigdor Speiser
    Ephraim Avigdor Speiser was a Polish-born American Assyriologist. He discovered the ancient site of Tepe Gawra in 1927 and supervised its excavation between 1931 and 1938.-Pre-war career:...

    , American assyriologist and archeologist.
  • Louis Snyder, U.S. historian.
  • Arthur Stein
    Arthur Stein
    Arthur A. Stein PhD is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.Specialising in issues such as ethnic conflict, terrorism, economic relations, and global governance, Stein has served on the editorial boards of International Organization, the American Journal of...

    , 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
    Barry Supple
    Barry Emanuel Supple, CBE, FBA , is Emeritus Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge, and a former Director of the Leverhulme Trust...

    , British economic historian (Jewish Year Book, 2005, p. 215)

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    • Jacob Talmon
      Jacob Talmon
      Jacob Leib Talmon was Professor of Modern History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem...

      , Israeli political and social historian.
    • Frank Tannenbaum
      Frank Tannenbaum
      Frank Tannenbaum was an Austrian-American historian, sociologist and criminologist who immigrated to the United States in 1905. He received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1921 and later received his Ph.D. in economics from the Brookings Institution...

      , U.S. economic historian.
    • Rosa Levin Toubin, Jewish Texan historian.
    • Hans Trefousse, U.S. historian.
    • Barbara Tuchman
      Barbara Tuchman
      Barbara Wertheim Tuchman was an American historian and author. She became known for her best-selling book The Guns of August, a history of the prelude to and first month of World War I, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1963....

      , U.S. journalist and historian.

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    • Irwin Unger
      Irwin Unger
      Irwin Unger is an American historian and academic specializing in economic history, the history of the 1960s, and the history of the Gilded Age. He earned his Ph.D...

      , U.S. political and social historian.

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    • Geza Vermes
      Geza Vermes
      Géza Vermes or Vermès is a British scholar of Jewish Hungarian origin and writer on religious history, particularly Jewish and Christian. He is a noted authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient works in Aramaic, and on the life and religion of Jesus...

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

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  • Bernard Weisberger
    Bernard Weisberger
    Bernard Allen Weisberger is a U.S. historian. He was born in New York. Weisberger taught American history at several universities including the University of Chicago and University of Rochester, where he was chair of the department. He has written more than a dozen books and worked on...

    , U.S. historian.
  • Eduard Wertheimer, Hungarian historian of the 19th century.
  • Helene Wieruszowski, German-U.S. historian.
  • Bertram Wolfe
    Bertram Wolfe
    Bertram David "Bert" Wolfe was an American scholar and former communist best known for biographical studies of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, and Diego Rivera.-Early life:...

    , U.S. Soviet historian.

    • Leonard Woolf
      Leonard Woolf
      Leonard Sidney Woolf was an English political theorist, author, publisher and civil servant, and husband of author Virginia Woolf.-Early life:...

      , British historian of economics.


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  • Oscar Zeichner, U.S. historian.
  • Alfred Zimmern, British political scientist and authority on International Relations.
  • Carl A. Zimring
    Carl A. Zimring
    Carl Abraham Zimring is an American environmental historian. He currently serves as an assistant professor at Roosevelt University, where he and Professors Michael A. Bryson and D. Bradford Hunt founded the Sustainability Studies program in 2010...

    , American environmental historian.
  • Howard Zinn
    Howard Zinn
    Howard Zinn was an American historian, academic, author, playwright, and social activist. Before and during his tenure as a political science professor at Boston University from 1964-88 he wrote more than 20 books, which included his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United...

    , American historian
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