List of Jewish American historians

This is a list of notable Jewish American historians. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.


 * Cyrus Adler
 * Herbert Aptheker
 * Bernard Bailyn
 * Daniel J. Boorstin
 * Norman Cantor
 * Ariel Durant
 * Stanley Elkins
 * Richard Ettinghausen, art historian
 * Norman Finkelstein, author and historian
 * Robert Fogel, economist and historian
 * Peter Gay
 * Yosef Goldman
 * Deborah Hertz
 * Raul Hilberg
 * Richard Hofstadter
 * Joseph Jacobs, editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia
 * Gabriel Kolko
 * Bernard Lewis
 * Deborah Lipstadt
 * John Lukacs, Hungarian-born historian
 * Erwin Panofsky
 * Richard Popkin, historian of philosophy
 * Meyer Schapiro
 * Rosa Levin Toubin, historian of Jewish Texan history
 * Barbara Tuchman
 * Ron Unz, historian and writer
 * Stanley M. Wagner, rabbi and academic
 * Howard Zinn