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Jewish history is the history of the Jewish people, their religion, and culture, as it developed and interacted with other dominant peoples, religions and cultures. Since Jewish history is over four thousand years long and includes hundreds of different populations, any treatment can only be provided in broad strokes. Additional information can be found in the main articles listed below.

See also

• Antisemitism
• Crypto-Judaism
• Historical Jewish population comparisons
• History of the Jews during World War II
• History of the Jews in the Land of Israel
• Jew
• Jewish diaspora
• Jewish population
• Jews by country
• Jewish Science
• Jewish ethnic divisions
• Jewish refugees
• Jewish exodus from Arab lands
• Josephus, a famous Jewish historian from Roman times
• Judaism
• Lists of Jews
• Timeline of Jewish history

List of Jewish historians

List of Jewish historians:

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

A

• David Abulafia, professor of history, University of Cambridge (Jewish Year Book 2005, p. 218)
• Ignac Acsady, Hungarian social and economic historian.<ref name="ejl">(EJL)</ref>
• Howard Adelson, U.S. mediaeval historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Cyrus Adler,<ref>Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Adler, Cyrus</ref> U.S. historian of Jewish history.
• Geoffrey Alderman,<ref>[1] "her father, Geoffrey Alderman, is a columnist for the Jewish Chronicle, and her family are strict Orthodox Jews" Accessed 3 Jan 2007</ref> historian
• Herbert Aptheker, leader in Communist Party, historian<ref>[2] "And I'm Jewish. I was about to go to Command and General Staff School and be promoted..." (subscription needed to view full text)</ref>
• Yehoshua Arieli, Israeli historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Walter Leonard Arnstein, U.S. historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Raymond Aron, French historian of sociology.<ref name="ejl" />
• Robert Aron, French author and journalist.<ref name="ejl" />
• David Asheri, Israeli classical historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Simon Ashkenazi, Polish modern European history.<ref name="ejl" />
• David Ayalon, Israeli historian of Islam and Judaism.<ref name="ejl" />

B

• Bernard Bailyn, U.S. Colonial historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Richard Barnett, museum curator and archaeologist (JYB 1985 p187)
• George Louis Beer, U.S. historian of 16th-19th century commerce.<ref name="ejl" />
• Emile-Auguste Begin, French physician, historian and librarian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Max Beloff, English historian and political scientist.<ref name="ejl" />
• Joaquim Bensaude Portuguese historian of astronomy and navigation.<ref name="ejl" />
• Norman Bentwich, British lawyer and historian <ref>Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Bentwich</ref>
• Israil Bercovici, Romanian playwright and historian <ref>http://www2.trincoll.edu/~mendele/ytf/ytf02006.htm</ref>
• Jay R. Berkovitz, U.S. historian of Jews in France and early modern Europe
• Harry Bernstein, U.S. historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Elias Joseph Bickerman, U.S. scholar of ancient history.<ref name="ejl" />
• Camille Bloch, French historian, archivist and librarian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Gustave Bloch, French Graeco-Roman historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Marc Bloch, French historian of medieval France.<ref name="ejl" />
• Herbert Bloch, German born American classicist.
• Solomon Frank Bloom, U.S. historian of modern Europe.<ref name="ejl" />
• Jerome Blum, U.S. historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Daniel Boorstin, U.S. historian; official historian at the Smithsonian Institution & the Library of Congress.,<ref name="ejl" /><ref>j. - celebrity jews</ref>
• Woodrow Wilson Borah, U.S. historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Ambrosio Brandao, Portuguese historian and soldier.<ref name="ejl" />
• Harry Bresslau, German historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Berthold Bretholz, Moravian historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Jacob Bronowski, historian of science [3]
• Robert Brunschvig, French historian of Islam.<ref name="ejl" />
• Max Buedinger, German modern European historian.<ref name="ejl" />

C

• Norman Cantor, mediaeval historian.,<ref name="ejl" /><ref>[4] "Cantor, himself Jewish, took on the "ruling circles of the American and Israeli Jewish communities"."</ref>
• Achille Coen, Italian historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• David Cohen, Dutch historian and Jewish leader.<ref name="ejl" />
• Gustave Cohen, Belgian historian of mediaeval French literature and theatre.<ref name="ejl" />
• Mark Cohen, American historian of the Jews under medieval Islam
• Robert Cohen, French historian of ancient Greece.<ref name="ejl" />
• Michael Confino, Israeli historian.<ref name="ejl" />

D

• Robert Davidsohn, German historian of mediaeval Florence.<ref name="ejl" />
• Hermann Dessau, German historian and philologist.<ref name="ejl" />
• Isaac Deutscher, Polish-born British Marxist historian and political scientist.<ref name="ejl" />
• Max Dimont, Max I. Dimont was a Finnish-American Jew and a popular historian and author.
• Martin Duberman, U.S. historian and playwright.<ref name="ejl" />
• Ariel Durant, American historian; author of The Story of Civilization.<ref>[5] "later known as Ariel (1898-1981), a Russian Jewish immigrant and talented student..."</ref>

E

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

F

• Louis Filler, U.S. historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Sidney Fine, U.S. historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Samuel Finer, British political scientist and historian <ref>Jewish Chronicle obituary, June 25, 1993, p.15</ref>
• Sir Moses I. Finley, Classical Historian.<ref>Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed.</ref>
• Robert Fogel, American economic historian and nobel laureate [6]
• Heinrich Friedjung, Moravian historian and politician.<ref name="ejl" />
• Saul Friedländer, Czech-born French-Israeli historian of the Holocaust.<ref name="ejl" />
• Alexander Fuks, Israeli classical historian.<ref name="ejl" />

G

• Peter Gay, German-born American historian of ideas.<ref name="ejl" />
• Leo Gershoy, U.S. historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Felix Gilbert, U.S. political historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Sir Martin Gilbert, British historian. [7]</ref
• Carlo Ginzburg, Italian historian. -->
• Gustave Glotz, French ancient Greek historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Eric F. Goldman, U.S. modern historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Yosef Goldman, author of Hebrew Printing in America<ref>Hooked On American Jewish History</ref>
• Sir Ernst Gombrich, Austrian-born British art historian.[8]
• Martin Goodman (historian) (Jewish Year Book 2005 p215)
• Louis Reichenthal Gottschalk, U.S. historian of modern Europe.<ref name="ejl" />
• Christopher Gudgeon, Israeli born Professor of History King's College London
• Philip Guedalla, biographer <ref>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "He was buried in Golders Green Jewish cemetery"</ref>
• Hans G. Guterbock, German born hittitologist.

H

• Elie Halevy, French historian, "A History of the English People in the 19th century 1915-30".
• George W. F. Hallgarten, historian: "The German-Jewish historian, George Hallgarten" [9]
• Louis Halphen, French mediaevalist.<ref name="ejl" />
• Theodore Stephen Hamerow, U.S. historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Marceli Handelsman, Polish constitutional and political historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Oscar Handlin, U.S. social historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Henry Harrisse, U.S. historiographer.<ref name="ejl" />
• Ludo Moritz Hartmann, Austrian historian and statesman.<ref name="ejl" />
• Henri Hauser, French ancient and mediaeval historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Sigmund Herzberg-Fraenkel, Austrian historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Jack H. Hexter, U.S. historian of modern Europe.<ref name="ejl" />
• Uriel Heyd, Israeli historian of Islam.<ref name="ejl" />
• Raul Hilberg, Austrian-born American Holocaust historian<ref>Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Hilberg, Raul</ref>
• Gertrude Himmelfarb, American historian of Victorian Britain.<ref name="ejl" />
• Heinrich Otto Hirschfield, German Roman historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-born British Marxist historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Richard Hofstadter, U.S. political historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Samuel Justin Hurwitz, U.S. historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Harold Melvin Hyman, U.S. historian.<ref name="ejl" />

I

• Siegfried Isaacsohn, German historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Jonathan Israel, British historian (Jewish Year Book 2005, p. 215)

J

• Joseph Jacobs [10], editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia
• Oscar Isaiah Janowsky, U.S. historian of modern Europe and Jews.<ref name="ejl" />
• Lisa Jardine, British historian (ref see List of British Jews#Historians)
• Louis de Jong, Dutch historian and journalist.<ref name="ejl" />
• Matthew Josephson, U.S. social historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Titus Flavius Josephus, Ancient Jewish Historian.

K

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

L

• Gyula Lanczy, Hungarian economic historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• David Landes, U.S. economic historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Benno Landsberger, Austrian born assyriologist.
• Max Laserson, Latvian historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Sir Sidney Lee, second editor of the Dictionary of National Biography [11]
• Max Lerner, U.S. journalist and social historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Joseph Levenson, U.S. specialist in Chinese history.<ref name="ejl" />
• Wilhelm Levison, German mediaevalist.<ref name="ejl" />
• Yitzchak Levine, columnist
• Arthur Levy, French historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Leonard William Levy, U.S. political historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Paul Levy, French linguistic historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Bernard Lewis, British orientalist, History of Islam.<ref name="ejl" /><ref>[12] "He is Jewish, a native of London, in his 80s."</ref>
• David Malcolm Lewis, British historian. (Jewish Year Book 1995 p. 193)
• Felix Liebermann, German mediaevalist.<ref name="ejl" />
• Ephraim Lipson, British economic historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Deborah Lipstadt, U.S. Holocaust historian<ref>[13] "Lipstadt, the American Jewish academic who exposes Holocaust deniers ..."</ref>
• Victor Loewe, German historian and archivist.<ref name="ejl" />
• Robert Sabatino Lopez, U.S. mediaevalist.<ref name="ejl" />
• Sidney Low, British statesman, journalist and political historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Samuel Lozinski, Russian historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• John Lukacs, Hungarian-US historian [14]
• Alberto Lumbroso, Italian historian of the Napoleonic period.<ref name="ejl" />
• Giacomo Lumbroso, Italian classical historian and archaeologist.<ref name="ejl" />

M

• Hyam Maccoby [15]
• Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft, 2nd Baronet, biographer <ref>Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Magnus"</ref>
• Frank Manuel, U.S. historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Henrik Marczali, Hungarian historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Shula Marks, South African-British expert on African history (Jewish Year Book 2005 p215)
• Ludwig Markus, German expert in Abyssinian and Beta Israeli history.<ref name="ejl" />
• Arno J. Mayer, Luxembourg-born American historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Gustav Mayer, German political and social historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Mark Borisovich Mitin, Russian politician and historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Arnaldo Momigliano, Italian-British historian.(Jewish Year Book 1985 p188)
• Felice Momigliano, Italian philosopher and historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Richard Brandon Morris, U.S. constitutional historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Louis C. Morton, U.S. historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• George Mosse, German-born American historian of ideas.<ref name="ejl" />
• Friederich Munzer, German classical scholar.-->
• Gustavus Myers, U.S. social historian.<ref name="ejl" />

N

• Nadav Na`aman, Israeli historian of biblical times.
• Oskar Nachod, German historian and bibliographer.<ref name="ejl" />
• 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 p202)
• Lynette Nusbacher, Canadian military historian.

O

• Julius Oppert, Assyriologist.
• Michael Oren, Israeli historian.

O

• Leo Oppenheim, assyriologist.

P

• Sir Francis Palgrave, British historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Erwin Panofsky, German-born American art historian<ref>[16] "Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968), another Jewish scholar associated with the Warburg Library, was the most illustrious art historian who found refuge in America." (subscription needed to view)</ref>
• Ilan Pappé, Israeli historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Max Perlbach, German mediaevalist.<ref name="ejl" />
• Martin Phillipson, German modern historian and communal leader.<ref name="ejl" />
• Koppel S. Pinson, U.S. political and social historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Richard Pipes, Polish-born American historian of Russia.<ref name="ejl" />
• Karl Polanyi, economist and historian [17]
• Sidney Pomerantz, U.S. historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Richard Popkin, historian of philosophy <ref>Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Philosophy"</ref>
• Samuel A. Portnoy, American historian of Jewish and East European history [18]
• George Posener, French Egyptologist.<ref name="ejl" />
• Sir Michael Postan, British historian. (Jewish Year Book 1985 p188)
• Joshua Prawer, Israeli historian of the kingdom of Jerusalem and the crusades.<ref name="ejl" />
• Alfred Pribram, Austrian historian and publicist.<ref name="ejl" />
• Jacob Psantir, Rumanian historian of the Jews.<ref name="ejl" />

R

• Theodore Rabb, Renaissance historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Armin Rappaport, U.S. historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Sidney Ratner, U.S. economic historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Ludwig Riess, German constitutional historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Samuele Romanin, Italian historian of classical Rome and Judaism.<ref name="ejl" />
• Nello Roselli, Italian historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Arthur Rosenberg, German historian and Zionist.<ref name="ejl" />
• Michael Alan Ross, American writer and author of BostonWalks The Jewish Friendship Trail Guidebook See [19] />
• Cecil Roth [20], British historian and editor of the Encyclopaedia Judaica

S

• Julius Salomon, Danish historian and archivist.<ref name="ejl" />
• Simon Schama [21], British historian
• J. Salwyn Schapiro, American historian of modern Europe.<ref name="ejl" />
• Leonard Schapiro,<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Glasgow of an anglophile Riga Jewish family"</ref> historian
• Meyer Schapiro, Lithuanian-born American art historian<ref>[22] "An archetypal Jewish immigrant"</ref>
• David Schoenbaum, modern German history.
• Moses Schorr, historian of Polish Jews
• Debra Schultz, American feminist historian
• Yossi Schwartz, The Origins of The Jews Y&R Gitam = CEO
• Hugh Sebag-Montefiore [23], British WW2 historian.
• Simon Sebag Montefiore [24], British historian of Russia.
• Tom Segev, Israeli historian.
• Arturo Segre, Italian political and commercial historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Avraham Sela, Israeli historian.
• Enrique Semo, Mexican historian.
• Bernard Semmel, U.S. historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Michael Shamah, British archaeologist and historian based in Bradford.
• Moshe Shamir, Israeli writer and historian.
• Leeor Shimron, American historian.
• Avi Shlaim, Israeli historian.
• Joseph Shulim, U.S. historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Bernhard von Simson, German mediaevalist.<ref name="ejl" />
• Paul Simson, German historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Charles Singer, British historian of science and medicine.<ref name="ejl" />
• Ephraim Avigdor Speiser, American assyriologist and archeologist.
• Louis Snyder, U.S. historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Arthur Stein, Austrian historian of classical Rome.<ref name="ejl" />
• Sir Aurel Stein [25], archeologist
• Henri Stein, French bibliographer and historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Samuel Steinherz, Czechoslovakian mediaevalist.<ref name="ejl" />
• Alfred Stern, Swiss social historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Barry Supple, British economic historian (Jewish Year Book, 2005, p. 215)

T

• Jacob Talmon, Israeli political and social historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Frank Tannenbaum, U.S. economic historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Rosa Levin Toubin, Jewish Texan historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Hans Trefousse, U.S. historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Barbara Tuchman, U.S. journalist and historian.<ref name="ejl" /><ref>[26] "American Jewish historian Barbara Tuchman was born in New York City"</ref>

U

• Irwin Unger, U.S. political and social historian.<ref name="ejl" />

V

• Geza Vermes [27], Hungarian-born British historian.

W

• Bernard Weisberger, U.S. historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Eduard Wertheimer, Hungarian historian of the 19th century.<ref name="ejl" />
• Helene Wieruszowski, German-U.S. historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Bertram Wolfe, U.S. Soviet historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Leonard Woolf, British historian of economics.<ref name="ejl" />

Z

• Oscar Zeichner, U.S. historian.<ref name="ejl" />
• Alfred Zimmern, British political scientist and authority on International Relations.<ref name="ejl" />
• Carl A. Zimring, American environmental historian.
• Howard Zinn, American historian<ref>[28] ""The Corporation," the lineup was a quartet of four Jewish left intellectuals, including Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn..."</ref>