List of Jewish historians

Contents: 

• Top
• 0–9
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z

A list of Jewish historians:

A

• David Abulafia, professor of history, University of Cambridge (Jewish Year Book 2005, p. 218)
• Henry Abramson, Touro College, Eastern European Jewish Historian.[1]
• Ignac Acsady, Hungarian social and economic historian[2]
• Howard Adelson, U.S. mediaeval historian[2]
• Cyrus Adler,[3] U.S. historian of Jewish history
• Geoffrey Alderman,[4] historian
• Mor Altshuler, Israeli historian of early Hasidism, Kabbalism, and Jewish messianism[5]
• Iosif Amusin, Soviet historian[6]
• Anne Applebaum, U.S. journalist, writer on the history of the Soviet Union, Russia, Central and Eastern Europe
• Herbert Aptheker, leader in Communist Party, historian[7]
• Yitzhak Arad, Israeli historian of the Shoah[8]
• Yehoshua Arieli, Israeli historian[2]
• Walter Leonard Arnstein, U.S. historian[2]
• Raymond Aron, French historian of sociology[2]
• Robert Aron, French author and journalist[2]
• Artapanus of Alexandria, 2nd Century BC historian who lived in Alexandria, Egypt[9]
• David Asheri, Israeli classical historian[2]
• Simon Ashkenazi, Polish modern European history[2]
• Robert Assaraf, Moroccan writer and historian
• David Ayalon, Israeli historian of Islam and Judaism[2]

B

• Bernard Bailyn, U.S. Colonial historian[2]
• Richard Barnett, museum curator and archaeologist (JYB 1985 p. 187)
• Salo Wittmayer Baron, American historian of Polish-Austrian Jewish ancestry
• Omer Bartov, U.S. historian of World War II and Polish Jews
• Yehuda Bauer, Czech-born Israeli historian of the Holocaust
• Zygmunt Bauman, Anglo-Polish scholar who examines the relationship between modernity and the Holocaust
• Yitzhak Bayer, History of the Jews
• George Louis Beer, U.S. historian of 16th-19th century commerce[2]
• Emile-Auguste Begin, French physician, historian and librarian[2]
• Max Beloff, English historian and political scientist[2]
• Benjamin of Tudela, travel writer 1159-73
• Shlomo Ben-Ami, Israeli historian and politician
• Joaquim Bensaude Portuguese historian of astronomy and navigation[2]
• Norman Bentwich, British lawyer and historian[10]
• Israil Bercovici, Romanian playwright and historian [11]
• Jay R. Berkovitz, U.S. historian of Jews in France and early modern Europe
• Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-born British historian of ideas
• Harry Bernstein, U.S. historian[2]
• Elias Joseph Bickerman, U.S. scholar of ancient history[2]
• Camille Bloch, French historian, archivist and librarian[2]
• Gustave Bloch, French Graeco-Roman historian[2]
• Herbert Bloch, German-born American classicist
• Marc Bloch, French historian of medieval France[2]
• Solomon Frank Bloom, U.S. historian of modern Europe[2]
• Jerome Blum, U.S. historian[2]
• Grigory Bongard-Levin, Russian historian
• Daniel Boorstin, U.S. historian; official historian at the Smithsonian Institution & the Library of Congress[2][12]
• Woodrow Wilson Borah, U.S. historian[2]
• Randolph L. Braham U.S. historian of Hungarian Jewish ancestry; historian of the Holocaust in Hungary[2]
• Ambrosio Brandao, Portuguese historian and soldier[2]
• Ahron Bregman, author and journalist on the Arab-Israeli conflict
• Harry Bresslau, German historian[2]
• Berthold Bretholz, Moravian historian[2]
• Alan Brinkley, historian, provost of Columbia University
• Jacob Bronowski, historian of science [13]
• Robert Brunschvig, French historian of Islam[2]
• Max Buedinger, German modern European historian[2]

C

• Norman Cantor, mediaeval historian[2][14]
• David Cesarani, British professor of history
• Robert Chazan medievalist
• Achille Coen, Italian historian[2]
• David Cohen, Dutch historian and Jewish leader[2]
• Gustave Cohen, Belgian historian of mediaeval French literature and theatre[2]
• Mark Cohen, American historian of the Jews under medieval Islam
• Norman Cohn, British historian
• Robert Cohen, French historian of ancient Greece[2]
• Stephen F. Cohen, American historian of the Soviet Union
• Michael Confino, Israeli historian[2]
• Martin van Creveld, Dutch-born Israeli military historian

D

• Robert Davidsohn, German historian of mediaeval Florence[2]
• Natalie Zemon Davis, American historian of France
• Lucy Dawidowicz, American Holocaust historian
• Hermann Dessau, German historian and philologist[2]
• Isaac Deutscher, Polish-born British Marxist historian and political scientist[2]
• Max Dimont, Finnish-American Jew and popular historian and author
• Martin Duberman, U.S. historian and playwright[2]
• Simon Dubnow, Russian-born Latvian historian; author of the "History of the Jews"; shot by Nazis
• Ariel Durant, American historian; author of The Story of Civilization.[15]

E

• Ludwig Edelstein, ancient medicine
• Alfred Edersheim Australian Jewish historian and Biblical scholar
• Victor Ehrenberg, German historian of the ancient world[2]
• Louis Eisenman, French historian of Europe[2]
• Abraham Eisenstadt, U.S. historian[2]
• Stanley Elkins, U.S. historian[2]
• Amos Elon, Vienna-born Israeli. Historian of Germany and modern Israel
• Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, German-born British historian of Tudor England[2]
• Carlo Errera, Italian geographer and historian of exploration[2]
• Richard Ettinghausen, German-born U.S. art historian[16]

F

• Orlando Figes, British historian of Russia
• Louis Filler, U.S. historian[2]
• Sidney Fine, U.S. historian[2]
• Samuel Finer, British political scientist and historian [17]
• Norman Finkelstein, American historian
• Moses I. Finley, Classical Historian.[18]
• Simha Flapan, Israeli historian
• Robert Fogel, American economic historian and Nobel laureate [19]
• Eric Foner, American historian and president of American Historical Association 2000
• Joseph Friedenson, Holocaust historian[20]
• Heinrich Friedjung, Moravian historian and politician[2]
• Henry Friedlander, German-born American historian of the Holocaust
• Saul Friedländer, Czech-born French-Israeli historian of the Holocaust[2]
• Yisrael Friedman, former lecturer at the Tel Aviv University and the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
• Alexander Fuks, Israeli classical historian[2]

G

• Peter Gay, German-born American historian of ideas[2]
• Leo Gershoy, U.S. historian[2]
• Felix Gilbert, U.S. political historian[2]
• Martin Gilbert, British historian.[21]
• Carlo Ginzburg, Italian historian
• Gustave Glotz, French ancient Greek historian[2]
• Shelomo Dov Goitein Arabist, historian, ethnographer
• Eric F. Goldman, U.S. modern historian[2]
• Yosef Goldman, author of Hebrew Printing in America[22]
• Yossi Goldstein, Israeli biographer
• Ernst Gombrich, Austrian-born British art historian[23]
• Martin Goodman (historian) (Jewish Year Book 2005 p. 215)
• Gabriel Gorodetsky, historian of Second World War
• Louis Reichenthal Gottschalk, U.S. historian of modern Europe[2]
• Heinrich Graetz, Polish-born German historian
• Jack Granatstein, Canadian military historian
• Jacob Greenwald, Master of European History University of Haifa
• Jan T. Gross, Polish historian
• Philip Guedalla, biographer [24]
• Hans G. Guterbock, German-born hittitologist

H

• Joseph Hakohen, 16th century historian, Italy
• Elie Halevy, French historian, "A History of the English People in the 19th century 1915-30"
• George W. F. Hallgarten, historian[25]
• Louis Halphen, French mediaevalist[2]
• Theodore Stephen Hamerow, U.S. historian[2]
• Marceli Handelsman, Polish constitutional and political historian[2]
• Oscar Handlin, U.S. social historian[2]
• Abraham Harkavy, Belarusian-born Russian historian
• Henry Harrisse, U.S. historiographer[2]
• Ludo Moritz Hartmann, Austrian historian and statesman[2]
• Henri Hauser, French ancient and mediaeval historian[2]
• Sigmund Herzberg-Fraenkel, Austrian historian[2]
• Jack H. Hexter, U.S. historian of modern Europe[2]
• Uriel Heyd, Israeli historian of Islam[2]
• Raul Hilberg, Austrian-born American Holocaust historian[26]
• Gertrude Himmelfarb, American historian of Victorian Britain[2]
• Heinrich Otto Hirschfield, German Roman historian[2]
• Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-born British Marxist historian[2]
• Richard Hofstadter, U.S. political historian[2]
• David Horowitz, American historian
• Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, American historian
• Irving Howe, American historian
• Samuel Justin Hurwitz, U.S. historian[2]
• Harold Melvin Hyman, U.S. historian[2]

I

• Siegfried Isaacsohn, German historian[2]
• Jonathan Israel, British historian (Jewish Year Book 2005, p. 215)

J

• Joseph Jacobs , editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia
• Oscar Isaiah Janowsky, U.S. historian of modern Europe and Jews[2]
• Lisa Jardine, British historian (ref see List of British Jews#Historians)
• Louis de Jong, Dutch historian and journalist[2]
• Matthew Josephson, U.S. social historian[2]
• Titus Flavius Josephus, Ancient Jewish Historian

K

• Donald Kagan, American historian of ancient Greece
• Frederick Kagan, American military historian
• David Kahn, American historian of cryptography
• Ernst Kantorowicz, German-born American mediaevalist[2]
• Efraim Karsh, Israeli historian
• Jacob Katz, was Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and author or editor of many books on medieval and modern Jewish social history
• Steven T. Katz, U.S. historian of the Holocaust
• Shmuel Katz, Israeli historian
• Solomon Katz, U.S. historian[2]
• Elie Kedourie, Iraq-born British historian (Jewish Year Book 1990 p. 202)
• Morton Keller, U.S. historian[2]
• Abraham Khalfon, Jewish historian of Tripoli[27]
• James Klugmann, communist historian [28]
• Richard Koebner, Israeli German historian[2]
• Hans Kohn, U.S. political and social historian[2]
• Hilton Kramer, American art historian
• Michael Kraus, U.S. historian[2]
• Leonard Krieger, U.S. historian[2]
• Hyman Kublin, U.S. historian of the far east[2]
• Thomas Samuel Kuhn, U.S. historian of science[2]
• Otto Kurz, historian (Jewish Year Book 1975 p. 214)

L

• Leopold Labedz, Anglo-Polish historian of Communism
• Gyula Lanczy, Hungarian economic historian[2]
• David Landes, U.S. economic historian[2]
• Benno Landsberger, Austrian-born assyriologist
• Thomas Laqueur, UC Berkeley professor, historian of Britain since 1509: social, medical and sexual historian
• Walter Laqueur, German-born American historian of modern Europe, the Middle East & terrorism
• Max Laserson, Latvian historian[2]
• Michael Ledeen, American historian of Fascism
• Sidney Lee, second editor of the Dictionary of National Biography [29]
• Arthur Lefkowitz, American historian of the American Revolution
• Mary Lefkowitz, American classical scholar
• Gerda Lerner, Austrian-born American feminist historian
• Max Lerner, U.S. journalist and social historian[2]
• Joseph Levenson, U.S. specialist in Chinese history[2]
• Wilhelm Levison, German mediaevalist[2]
• Arthur Levy, French historian[2]
• Leonard William Levy, U.S. political historian[2]
• Paul Lévy, French linguistic historian[2]
• Bernard Lewis, British orientalist, History of Islam[2][30]
• David Malcolm Lewis, British historian. (Jewish Year Book 1995 p. 193)
• Felix Liebermann, German mediaevalist[2]
• Ephraim Lipson, British economic historian[2]
• Deborah Lipstadt, U.S. Holocaust historian[31]
• Victor Loewe, German historian and archivist[2]
• Robert Sabatino Lopez, U.S. mediaevalist[2]
• Sidney Low, British statesman, journalist and political historian[2]
• Samuel Lozinski, Russian historian[2]
• John Lukacs, Hungarian-US historian [32]
• Alberto Lumbroso, Italian historian of the Napoleonic period[2]
• Giacomo Lumbroso, Italian classical historian and archaeologist[2]

M

• Hyam Maccoby [33]
• Lothar Machtan
• Philip Magnus-Allcroft, biographer [34]
• Frank Manuel, U.S. historian[2]
• Henrik Marczali, Hungarian historian[2]
• Shula Marks, South African-British expert on African history (Jewish Year Book 2005 p. 215)
• Ludwig Markus, German expert in Abyssinian and Beta Israeli history[2]
• Michael Marrus, Canadian Shoah historian
• Karl Marx, historian and philosopher
• Arno J. Mayer, Luxembourg-born American historian[2]
• Gustav Mayer, German political and social historian[2]
• Milton Meltzer, American historian of Afro-American history
• Ezra Mendelsohn, Polish historian of the Jewish community in Poland
• Isaak Mints, Ukrainian-born Russian historian
• Mark Borisovich Mitin, Russian politician and historian[2]
• Arnaldo Momigliano, Italian-British historian.(Jewish Year Book 1985 p. 188)
• Felice Momigliano, Italian philosopher and historian[2]
• Benny Morris, Israeli historian of Israel
• Richard Brandon Morris, U.S. constitutional historian[2]
• Louis C. Morton, U.S. historian[2]
• George Mosse, German-born American historian of ideas[2]
• Salomon Munk, German-born French historian
• Friederich Munzer, German classical scholar
• Gustavus Myers, U.S. social historian[2]

N

• Nadav Na`aman, Israeli historian of biblical times
• Oskar Nachod, German historian and bibliographer[2]
• Lewis Bernstein Namier, Polish-born British historian
• Abraham Nasatir, U.S. historian of west and southwest U.S.
• Alexander Nove, economic historian (Jewish Year Book 1990 p. 202)

O

• Julius Oppert, Assyriologist
• Michael Oren, Israeli historian

O

• Leo Oppenheim, Assyriologist

P

• Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American historian
• Francis Palgrave, British historian[2]
• Erwin Panofsky, German-born American art historian[35]
• Ilan Pappé, Israeli historian[2]
• Peter Paret, German-born American historian of German history
• [[Herbert S. Parmet, political historian and biographer
• [[Robert D. Parmet,labor and immigration historian and biographer
• Max Perlbach, German mediaevalist[2]
• Martin Phillipson, German modern historian and communal leader[2]
• Koppel Pinson, U.S. political and social historian[2]
• Daniel Pipes, American historian of the Middle East
• Richard Pipes, Polish-born American historian of Russia[2]
• Karl Polanyi, economist and historian [36]
• Leon Poliakov, French historian of anti-semitism
• Sidney Pomerantz, U.S. historian[2]
• Richard Popkin, historian of philosophy [37]
• Yehoshua Porath, Israeli historian
• Samuel A. Portnoy, American historian of Jewish and East European history [38]
• George Posener, French Egyptologist[2]
• Michael Postan, British historian. (Jewish Year Book 1985 p. 188)
• Joshua Prawer, Israeli historian of the kingdom of Jerusalem and the crusades[2]
• Alfred Francis Pribram (de), Anglo-Austrian diplomatic historian.[39]
• Alfred Pribram, Austrian historian and publicist[2]
• Jacob Psantir, Rumanian historian of the Jews[2]

R

• Theodore Rabb, Renaissance historian[2]
• Ronald Radosh, American historian of espionage
• Armin Rappaport, U.S. historian[2]
• Sidney Ratner, U.S. economic historian[2]
• Jehuda Reinharz, U.S.-Israeli historian of modern Jewish history
• Ludwig Riess, German constitutional historian[2]
• Emanuel Ringelblum, Polish historian of Warsaw Ghetto
• Maxime Rodinson, French historian
• Samuele Romanin, Italian historian of classical Rome and Judaism[2]
• Nello Roselli, Italian historian[2]
• Ron Rosenbaum, American historian-journalist, author of Explaining Hitler (1998)
• Arthur Rosenberg, German historian and Zionist[2]
• Nathan Rosenstein, American historian of the Roman Republic
• Michael Alan Ross, American writer and author of BostonWalks The Jewish Friendship Trail Guidebook[40]
• Walt Whitman Rostow, American economic historian
• Cecil Roth, British historian[41] and editor of the Encyclopaedia Judaica
• Hans Rothfels, German-born American historian
• W.D.Rubinstein, American-born Australian historian in Britain
• Suzanne Rutland, Australian historian

S

• Abram L. Sachar, American historian
• Howard M. Sachar, American historian
• Julius Salomon, Danish historian and archivist[2]
• Simon Schama, British historian[42]
• J. Salwyn Schapiro, American historian of modern Europe[2]
• Leonard Schapiro,[43] historian
• Meyer Schapiro, Lithuanian-born American art historian[44]
• David Schoenbaum, modern German history
• Moses Schorr, historian of Polish Jews
• Debra Schultz, American feminist historian
• Yossi Schwartz
• Hugh Sebag-Montefiore, British World War 2 historian[45]
• Simon Sebag Montefiore, British historian of Russia[46]
• Tom Segev, Israeli historian
• Arturo Segre, Italian political and commercial historian[2]
• Avraham Sela, Israeli historian
• Enrique Semo, Mexican historian
• Bernard Semmel, U.S. historian[2]
• Michael Shamah, British Archaeologist
• Moshe Shamir, Israeli writer and historian
• Leeor Shimron, American historian
• Avi Shlaim, Israeli historian
• Joseph Shulim, U.S. historian[2]
• Bernhard von Simson, German mediaevalist[2]
• Paul Simson, German historian[2]
• Charles Singer, British historian of science and medicine[2]
• Ephraim Avigdor Speiser, American assyriologist and archeologist
• Louis Snyder, U.S. historian[2]
• Arthur Stein (historian), Austrian historian of classical Rome[2]
• Aurel Stein , archeologist
• Henri Stein, French bibliographer and historian[2]
• Samuel Steinherz, Czechoslovakian mediaevalist[2]
• Alfred Stern, Swiss social historian[2]
• Fritz Stern, German-born American historian
• Menahem Stern, Israeli historian of ancient Judaism
• Zeev Sternhell, Israeli historian of French fascism
• Barry Supple, British economic historian (Jewish Year Book, 2005, p. 215)

T

• Hayim Tadmor, Assyriologist
• Jacob Talmon, Israeli political and social historian[2]
• Frank Tannenbaum, U.S. economic historian[2]
• Rosa Levin Toubin, Jewish Texan historian[2]
• Hans Trefousse, U.S. historian[2]
• Barbara Tuchman, U.S. journalist and historian[2][47]

U

• Adam Ulam, Polish-born American historian of Marxism, Communism, and 20th Century Russian history
• Irwin Unger, U.S. political and social historian[2]

V

• Geza Vermes, Hungarian-born British historian[48]

W

• Joanna Waley-Cohen, English historian now in New York
• Bernard Wasserstein, British historian of the Middle East and Europe
• Eugen Weber, Modern European History
• Gerhard Weinberg, German-born American historian of World War Two
• Robert Weinberg, American historian of Russia
• Bernard Weisberger, U.S. historian[2]
• Eduard Wertheimer, Hungarian historian of the 19th century[2]
• Helene Wieruszowski, German-U.S. historian[2]
• Mordecai Wilensky, American/Israeli historian of Jewish history
• Bertram Wolfe, U.S. Soviet historian[2]
• Michael Wolffsohn, Israeli-born German historian
• Leonard Woolf, British historian of economics[2]

Y

• Zvy Yavetz, Israeli historian of ancient Rome
• Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932-2009), Jewish History, Culture & Society
• Aryeh Yitzhaki, Israeli historian

Z

• Abraham Zacuto, historian and scientist
• Rehavam Zeevi, Israeli historian
• Oscar Zeichner, U.S. historian[2]
• Alfred Zimmern, British political scientist and authority on International Relations[2]
• Carl A. Zimring, American environmental historian
• Howard Zinn, American historian[49]

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