Jerold Auerbach

Jerold Auerbach is an American historian and professor emeritus of history at Wellesley College.

Auerbach earned the B.A. at Oberlin College and the Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1965. He taught at Queens College and at Brandeis University before joiing the Wellesley faculty in 1971.

Writing in the Harvard Law Review, Charles Edward Wyzanski, Jr., described Auerbach's writing as having, "a cogency built on careful scholarship not impaired by fanaticism."