List of Jewish historians

A

David Abulafia, professor of history, University of Cambridge (Jewish Year Book 2005, p. 218)

Ignac Acsady, Hungarian social and economic historian

Howard Adelson, U.S. mediaeval historian

Cyrus Adler, U.S. historian of Jewish history

Geoffrey Alderman, historian

Mor Altshuler, Israeli historian of early Hasidism, Kabbalism, and Jewish messianism

Herbert Aptheker, leader in Communist Party, historian

Yehoshua Arieli, Israeli historian

Walter Leonard Arnstein, U.S. historian

Raymond Aron, French historian of sociology

Robert Aron, French author and journalist

David Asheri, Israeli classical historian

Simon Ashkenazi, Polish modern European history

David Ayalon, Israeli historian of Islam and Judaism

B

Bernard Bailyn, U.S. Colonial historian

Richard Barnett, museum curator and archaeologist (JYB 1985 p. 187)

Salo Wittmayer Baron, American historian of Polish-Austrian Jewish ancestry

Omer Bartov, U.S. historian of World War II and Polish Jews

George Louis Beer, U.S. historian of 16th-19th century commerce

Emile-Auguste Begin, French physician, historian and librarian

Max Beloff, English historian and political scientist

Joaquim Bensaude Portuguese historian of astronomy and navigation

Norman Bentwich, British lawyer and historian

Israil Bercovici, Romanian playwright and historian

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

Harry Bernstein, U.S. historian

Elias Joseph Bickerman, U.S. scholar of ancient history

Camille Bloch, French historian, archivist and librarian

Gustave Bloch, French Graeco-Roman historian

Herbert Bloch, German-born American classicist

Marc Bloch, French historian of medieval France

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, German historian

Berthold Bretholz, Moravian historian

Jacob Bronowski, historian of science

Robert Brunschvig, French historian of Islam

Max Buedinger, German modern European historian

C

Norman Cantor, mediaeval historian

Achille Coen, Italian historian

David Cohen, Dutch historian and Jewish leader

Gustave Cohen, Belgian historian of mediaeval French literature and theatre

Mark Cohen, American historian of the Jews under medieval Islam

Robert Cohen, French historian of ancient Greece

Michael Confino, Israeli historian

D

Robert Davidsohn, German historian of mediaeval Florence

Hermann Dessau, German historian and philologist

Isaac Deutscher, Polish-born British Marxist historian and political scientist

Max Dimont, Finnish-American Jew and popular historian and author

Martin Duberman, U.S. historian and playwright

Ariel Durant, American historian; author of The Story of Civilization.

E

Ludwig Edelstein, ancient medicine

Victor Ehrenberg, German historian of the ancient world

Louis Eisenman, French historian of Europe

Abraham Eisenstadt, U.S. historian

Stanley Elkins, U.S. historian

Amos Elon, Vienna-born Israeli. Historian of Germany and modern Israel

Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, German-born British historian of Tudor England

Carlo Errera, Italian geographer and historian of exploration

Richard Ettinghausen, German-born U.S. art historian

F

Louis Filler, U.S. historian

Sidney Fine, U.S. historian

Samuel Finer, British political scientist and historian

Sir Moses I. Finley, Classical Historian.

Robert Fogel, American economic historian and Nobel laureate

Eric Foner, American historian and president of American Historical Association 2000

Joseph Friedenson, Holocaust historian

Heinrich Friedjung, Moravian historian and politician

Henry Friedlander, German-born American historian of the Holocaust

Saul Friedländer, Czech-born French-Israeli historian of the Holocaust

Yisrael Friedman, former lecturer at the Tel Aviv University and the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Alexander Fuks, Israeli classical historian

G

Peter Gay, German-born American historian of ideas

Leo Gershoy, U.S. historian

Felix Gilbert, U.S. political historian

Sir Martin Gilbert, British historian.

Carlo Ginzburg, Italian historian

Gustave Glotz, French ancient Greek historian

Eric F. Goldman, U.S. modern historian

Yosef Goldman, author of Hebrew Printing in America

Sir Ernst Gombrich, Austrian-born British art historian

Martin Goodman (historian) (Jewish Year Book 2005 p. 215)

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

Philip Guedalla, biographer

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

Louis Halphen, French mediaevalist

Theodore Stephen Hamerow, U.S. historian

Marceli Handelsman, Polish constitutional and political historian

Oscar Handlin, U.S. social historian

Henry Harrisse, U.S. historiographer

Ludo Moritz Hartmann, Austrian historian and statesman

Henri Hauser, French ancient and mediaeval historian

Sigmund Herzberg-Fraenkel, Austrian historian

Jack H. Hexter, U.S. historian of modern Europe

Uriel Heyd, Israeli historian of Islam

Raul Hilberg, Austrian-born American Holocaust historian

Gertrude Himmelfarb, American historian of Victorian Britain

Heinrich Otto Hirschfield, German Roman historian

Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-born British Marxist historian

Richard Hofstadter, U.S. political historian

Samuel Justin Hurwitz, U.S. historian

Harold Melvin Hyman, U.S. historian

I

Siegfried Isaacsohn, German historian

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

J

Joseph Jacobs [26], editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia

Oscar Isaiah Janowsky, U.S. historian of modern Europe and Jews

Lisa Jardine, British historian (ref see List of British Jews#Historians)

Louis de Jong, Dutch historian and journalist

Matthew Josephson, U.S. social historian

Titus Flavius Josephus, Ancient Jewish Historian

K

Ernst Kantorowicz, German-born American mediaevalist

Solomon Katz, U.S. historian

Elie Kedourie, Iraq-born British historian (Jewish Year Book 1990 p. 202)

Morton Keller, U.S. historian

Abraham Khalfon, Jewish historian of Tripoli

James Klugmann, communist historian

Richard Koebner, Israeli German historian

Hans Kohn, U.S. political and social historian

Michael Kraus, U.S. historian

Leonard Krieger, U.S. historian

Hyman Kublin, U.S. historian of the far east

Thomas Samuel Kuhn, U.S. historian of science

Otto Kurz, historian (Jewish Year Book 1975 p. 214)

L

Gyula Lanczy, Hungarian economic historian

David Landes, U.S. economic historian

Benno Landsberger, Austrian-born assyriologist

Max Laserson, Latvian historian

Sir Sidney Lee, second editor of the Dictionary of National Biography

Max Lerner, U.S. journalist and social historian

Joseph Levenson, U.S. specialist in Chinese history

Wilhelm Levison, German mediaevalist

Arthur Levy, French historian

Leonard William Levy, U.S. political historian

Paul Levy, French linguistic historian

Bernard Lewis, British orientalist, History of Islam

David Malcolm Lewis, British historian. (Jewish Year Book 1995 p. 193)

Felix Liebermann, German mediaevalist

Ephraim Lipson, British economic historian

Deborah Lipstadt, U.S. Holocaust historian

Victor Loewe, German historian and archivist

Robert Sabatino Lopez, U.S. mediaevalist

Sidney Low, British statesman, journalist and political historian

Samuel Lozinski, Russian historian

John Lukacs, Hungarian-US historian

Alberto Lumbroso, Italian historian of the Napoleonic period

Giacomo Lumbroso, Italian classical historian and archaeologist

M

Hyam Maccoby

Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft, 2nd Baronet, biographer

Frank Manuel, U.S. historian

Henrik Marczali, Hungarian historian

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

Arno J. Mayer, Luxembourg-born American historian

Gustav Mayer, German political and social historian

Mark Borisovich Mitin, Russian politician and historian

Arnaldo Momigliano, Italian-British historian.(Jewish Year Book 1985 p. 188)

Felice Momigliano, Italian philosopher and historian

Richard Brandon Morris, U.S. constitutional historian

Louis C. Morton, U.S. historian

George Mosse, German-born American historian of ideas

Gustavus Myers, U.S. social historian

N

Nadav Na`aman, Israeli historian of biblical times

Oskar Nachod, German historian and bibliographer

Lewis Bernstein Namier, Polish-born British historian

Alexander Nove, economic historian (Jewish Year Book 1990 p. 202)

O

Julius Oppert, Assyriologist

Michael Oren, Israeli historian

O

Leo Oppenheim, Assyriologist

P

Sir Francis Palgrave, British historian

Erwin Panofsky, German-born American art historian

Ilan Pappé, Israeli historian

Max Perlbach, German mediaevalist

Martin Phillipson, German modern historian and communal leader

Koppel Pinson, U.S. political and social historian

Richard Pipes, Polish-born American historian of Russia

Karl Polanyi, economist and historian

Sidney Pomerantz, U.S. historian

Richard Popkin, historian of philosophy

Samuel A. Portnoy, American historian of Jewish and East European history

George Posener, French Egyptologist

Sir Michael Postan, British historian. (Jewish Year Book 1985 p. 188)

Joshua Prawer, Israeli historian of the kingdom of Jerusalem and the crusades

Alfred Francis Pribram (de), Anglo-Austrian diplomatic historian.

Alfred Pribram, Austrian historian and publicist

Jacob Psantir, Rumanian historian of the Jews

R

Theodore Rabb, Renaissance historian

Armin Rappaport, U.S. historian

Sidney Ratner, U.S. economic historian

Ludwig Riess, German constitutional historian

Samuele Romanin, Italian historian of classical Rome and Judaism

Nello Roselli, Italian historian

Ron Rosenbaum, American historian-journalist, author of Explaining Hitler (1998)

Arthur Rosenberg, German historian and Zionist

Nathan Rosenstein, American historian of the Roman Republic -->

Michael Alan Ross, American writer and author of BostonWalks The Jewish Friendship Trail Guidebook

Cecil Roth, British historian and editor of the Encyclopaedia Judaica

S

Julius Salomon, Danish historian and archivist

Simon Schama, British historian

J. Salwyn Schapiro, American historian of modern Europe

Leonard Schapiro, historian

Meyer Schapiro, Lithuanian-born American art historian

David Schoenbaum, modern German history

Moses Schorr, historian of Polish Jews

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore, British World War 2 historian

Simon Sebag Montefiore, British historian of Russia

Tom Segev, Israeli historian

Arturo Segre, Italian political and commercial historian

Avraham Sela, Israeli historian

Bernard Semmel, U.S. historian

Moshe Shamir, Israeli writer and historian

Avi Shlaim, Israeli historian

Joseph Shulim, U.S. historian

Bernhard von Simson, German mediaevalist

Paul Simson, German historian

Charles Singer, British historian of science and medicine

Ephraim Avigdor Speiser, American assyriologist and archeologist

Louis Snyder, U.S. historian

Arthur Stein, Austrian historian of classical Rome

Sir Aurel Stein [27], archeologist

Henri Stein, French bibliographer and historian

Samuel Steinherz, Czechoslovakian mediaevalist

Alfred Stern, Swiss social historian

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

T

Jacob Talmon, Israeli political and social historian

Frank Tannenbaum, U.S. economic historian

Rosa Levin Toubin, Jewish Texan historian

Hans Trefousse, U.S. historian

Barbara Tuchman, U.S. journalist and historian

U

Irwin Unger, U.S. political and social historian

V

Geza Vermes, Hungarian-born British historian

W

Bernard Weisberger, U.S. historian

Eduard Wertheimer, Hungarian historian of the 19th century

Helene Wieruszowski, German-U.S. historian

Mordecai Wilensky, American/Israeli historian of Jewish history

Bertram Wolfe, U.S. Soviet historian

Leonard Woolf, British historian of economics

Y

Zvy Yavetz, Israeli historian of ancient Rome

Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932-2009), Jewish History, Culture & Society

Aryeh Yitzhaki, Israeli historian

Z

Oscar Zeichner, U.S. historian

Alfred Zimmern, British political scientist and authority on International Relations

Carl A. Zimring, American environmental historian

Howard Zinn, American historian