List of Jewish American historians
This is a list of famous Jewish American historians. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans. See also List of Jewish historians.
- James Sloss Ackerman, architectural historian
- Cyrus Adler[1]
- Herbert Aptheker[2]
- Bernard Bailyn[3]
- Daniel J. Boorstin[4]
- Norman Cantor[5]
- Ariel Durant[6]
- Stanley Elkins[7]
- Richard Ettinghausen, art historian[8]
- Norman Finkelstein,[9] author and historian
- Robert Fogel, economist and historian [10]
- Peter Gay[11]
- Yosef Goldman[12]
- Anthony Grafton
- Deborah Hertz[13]
- Raul Hilberg[14]
- Richard Hofstadter[15]
- Joseph Jacobs,[16] editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia
- Bernard Lewis[17]
- Deborah Lipstadt[18]
- John Lukacs, Hungarian-born historian [19]
- Erwin Panofsky[20]
- Richard Popkin, historian of philosophy [21]
- Meyer Schapiro[22]
- Rosa Levin Toubin, historian of Jewish Texan history[23]
- Barbara Tuchman[24]
- Rudolf Wittkower, architectural historian
- Howard Zinn[25]
References
- ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Adler, Cyrus
- ^ [1] "And I'm Jewish. I was about to go to Command and General Staff School and be promoted..." (subscription needed to view full text)
- ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Bailyn, Bernard
- ^ j. - celebrity jews
- ^ [2] "Cantor, himself Jewish, took on the "ruling circles of the American and Israeli Jewish communities"."
- ^ [3] "later known as Ariel (1898-1981), a Russian Jewish immigrant and talented student..."
- ^ Kirsten Fermaglich, "'One of the Lucky Ones': Stanley Elkins and the Concentration Camp Analogy in Slavery" in American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957-1965 (2007)
- ^ Dictionary of Art Historians "Both a Jew and an avid Islamicist"
- ^ [4]
- ^ [5]
- ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Gay, Peter
- ^ [6]
- ^ [7]
- ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Hilberg, Raul
- ^ [8] "Half Jewish, he was part of the first wave of intellectuals to incorporate secular, cosmopolitan..."
- ^ [9]
- ^ [10] "He is Jewish, a native of London, in his 80s."
- ^ [11] "Lipstadt, the American Jewish academic who exposes Holocaust deniers is not exactly..."
- ^ [12]
- ^ [13] "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)
- ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Philosophy"
- ^ [14] "An archetypal Jewish immigrant, Schapiro arrived in the United States at the age..."
- ^ [15] "Rosa Levin Toubin, Brenham Kehilla Historian"."
- ^ [16] "American Jewish historian Barbara Tuchman was born in New York City on 30..."
- ^ [17] ""The Corporation," the lineup was a quartet of four Jewish left intellectuals, including Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn..."