List of Jewish historians

A list of Jewish historians:

A

 * David Abulafia, professor of history, University of Cambridge (Jewish Year Book 2005, p. 218)
 * Henry Abramson, Touro College, Eastern European Jewish Historian.
 * Ignác Acsády, 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
 * Iosif Amusin, Soviet historian
 * Anne Applebaum, U.S. journalist, writer on the history of the Soviet Union, Russia, Central and Eastern Europe
 * Herbert Aptheker, leader in Communist Party, historian
 * Yitzhak Arad, Israeli historian of the Shoah
 * Yehoshua Arieli, Israeli historian
 * Walter Leonard Arnstein, U.S. historian
 * Raymond Aron, French historian of sociology
 * Robert Aron, French author and journalist
 * Artapanus of Alexandria, 2nd Century BC historian who lived in Alexandria, Egypt
 * David Asheri, Israeli classical historian
 * Simon Ashkenazi, Polish modern European history
 * Robert Assaraf, Moroccan writer and historian
 * 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
 * Yehuda Bauer, Czech-born Israeli historian of the Holocaust
 * Zygmunt Bauman, Anglo-Polish scholar who examines the relationship between modernity and the Holocaust
 * Yitzhak Bayer, History of the 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
 * Benjamin of Tudela, travel writer 1159-73
 * Shlomo Ben-Ami, Israeli historian and politician
 * 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
 * Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-born British historian of ideas
 * 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
 * Grigory Bongard-Levin, Russian historian
 * Daniel Boorstin, U.S. historian; official historian at the Smithsonian Institution & the Library of Congress
 * Woodrow Wilson Borah, U.S. historian
 * Randolph L. Braham U.S. historian of Hungarian Jewish ancestry; historian of the Holocaust in Hungary
 * Ambrosio Brandao, Portuguese historian and soldier
 * Ahron Bregman, author and journalist on the Arab-Israeli conflict
 * Harry Bresslau, German historian
 * Berthold Bretholz, Moravian historian
 * Alan Brinkley, historian, provost of Columbia University
 * Jacob Bronowski, historian of science
 * Robert Brunschvig, French historian of Islam
 * Max Buedinger, German modern European historian

C

 * Norman Cantor, mediaeval historian
 * David Cesarani, British professor of history
 * Robert Chazan medievalist
 * 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
 * Norman Cohn, British historian
 * Robert Cohen, French historian of ancient Greece
 * Stephen F. Cohen, American historian of the Soviet Union
 * Michael Confino, Israeli historian
 * Martin van Creveld, Dutch-born Israeli military historian

D

 * Robert Davidsohn, German historian of mediaeval Florence
 * Natalie Zemon Davis, American historian of France
 * Lucy Dawidowicz, American Holocaust historian
 * 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
 * Simon Dubnow, Russian-born Latvian historian; author of the "History of the Jews"; shot by Nazis
 * Ariel Durant, American historian; author of The Story of Civilization.

E

 * Abba Eban, Israeli writer about Israeli and Jewish history
 * Ludwig Edelstein, ancient medicine
 * Alfred Edersheim Australian Jewish historian and Biblical scholar
 * 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
 * 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

 * Orlando Figes, British historian of Russia
 * Louis Filler, U.S. historian
 * Sidney Fine, U.S. historian
 * Samuel Finer, British political scientist and historian
 * Norman Finkelstein, American historian
 * Moses I. Finley, Classical Historian.
 * Simha Flapan, Israeli 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
 * Martin Gilbert, British historian
 * Carlo Ginzburg, Italian historian
 * Gustave Glotz, French ancient Greek historian
 * Shelomo Dov Goitein Arabist, historian, ethnographer
 * Eric F. Goldman, U.S. modern historian
 * Yosef Goldman, author of Hebrew Printing in America
 * Yossi Goldstein, Israeli biographer
 * Ernst Gombrich, Austrian-born British art historian
 * Martin Goodman (historian) (Jewish Year Book 2005 p. 215)
 * Gabriel Gorodetsky, historian of Second World War
 * Louis Reichenthal Gottschalk, U.S. historian of modern Europe
 * Heinrich Graetz, Polish-born German historian
 * Jack Granatstein, Canadian military historian
 * Jacob Greenwald, Master of European History University of Haifa
 * Jan T. Gross, Polish historian
 * Philip Guedalla, biographer
 * Hans G. Guterbock, German-born hittitologist

H

 * Joseph Hakohen, 16th century historian, Italy
 * 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
 * Abraham Harkavy, Belarusian-born Russian 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
 * David Horowitz, American historian
 * Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, American historian
 * Irving Howe, American 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, 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)
 * Louis de Jong, Dutch historian and journalist
 * Matthew Josephson, U.S. social historian
 * Titus Flavius Josephus, ancient Jewish historian

K

 * Donald Kagan, American historian of ancient Greece
 * Frederick Kagan, American military historian
 * David Kahn, American historian of cryptography
 * Ernst Kantorowicz, German-born American mediaevalist
 * Efraim Karsh, Israeli historian
 * Jacob Katz, was Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and author or editor of many books on medieval and modern Jewish social history
 * Steven T. Katz, U.S. historian of the Holocaust
 * Shmuel Katz, Israeli historian
 * 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
 * Hilton Kramer, American art 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

 * Leopold Labedz, Anglo-Polish historian of Communism
 * Gyula Lanczy, Hungarian economic historian
 * David Landes, U.S. economic historian
 * Benno Landsberger, Austrian-born assyriologist
 * Thomas Laqueur, UC Berkeley professor, historian of Britain since 1509: social, medical and sexual historian
 * Walter Laqueur, German-born American historian of modern Europe, the Middle East & terrorism
 * Max Laserson, Latvian historian
 * Michael Ledeen, American historian of Fascism
 * Sidney Lee, second editor of the Dictionary of National Biography
 * Arthur Lefkowitz, American historian of the American Revolution
 * Mary Lefkowitz, American classical scholar
 * Gerda Lerner, Austrian-born American feminist historian
 * 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 Lévy (linguist), 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
 * Lothar Machtan
 * Philip Magnus-Allcroft, 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
 * Michael Marrus, Canadian Shoah historian
 * Karl Marx, historian and philosopher
 * Arno J. Mayer, Luxembourg-born American historian
 * Gustav Mayer, German political and social historian
 * Milton Meltzer, American historian of Afro-American history
 * Ezra Mendelsohn, Polish historian of the Jewish community in Poland
 * Isaak Mints, Ukrainian-born Russian 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
 * Benny Morris, Israeli historian of Israel
 * Richard Brandon Morris, U.S. constitutional historian
 * Louis C. Morton, U.S. historian
 * George Mosse, German-born American historian of ideas
 * Salomon Munk, German-born French historian
 * Friederich Munzer, German classical scholar
 * 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
 * Abraham Nasatir, U.S. historian of west and southwest U.S.
 * Alexander Nove, economic historian (Jewish Year Book 1990 p. 202)

O

 * Julius Oppert, Assyriologist
 * Michael Oren, Israeli historian
 * Leo Oppenheim, Assyriologist

P

 * Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American historian
 * Francis Palgrave, British historian
 * Erwin Panofsky, German-born American art historian
 * Ilan Pappé, Israeli historian
 * Peter Paret, German-born American historian of German history
 * Herbert S. Parmet, political historian and biographer
 * Robert D. Parmet, labor and immigration historian and biographer
 * Max Perlbach, German mediaevalist
 * Martin Phillipson, German modern historian and communal leader
 * Koppel Pinson, U.S. political and social historian
 * Daniel Pipes, American historian of the Middle East
 * Richard Pipes, Polish-born American historian of Russia
 * Karl Polanyi, economist and historian
 * Leon Poliakov, French historian of anti-semitism
 * Sidney Pomerantz, U.S. historian
 * Richard Popkin, historian of philosophy
 * Yehoshua Porath, Israeli historian
 * Samuel A. Portnoy, American historian of Jewish and East European history
 * George Posener, French Egyptologist
 * 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
 * Ronald Radosh, American historian of espionage
 * Armin Rappaport, U.S. historian
 * Uriel Rappaport, Israeli historian of the Second Temple period
 * Sidney Ratner, U.S. economic historian
 * Jehuda Reinharz, U.S.-Israeli historian of modern Jewish history
 * Ludwig Riess, German constitutional historian
 * Emanuel Ringelblum, Polish historian of Warsaw Ghetto
 * Maxime Rodinson, French 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
 * Walt Whitman Rostow, American economic historian
 * Cecil Roth, British historian and editor of the Encyclopaedia Judaica
 * Hans Rothfels, German-born American historian
 * W.D.Rubinstein, American-born Australian historian in Britain
 * Suzanne Rutland, Australian historian

S

 * Abram L. Sachar, American historian
 * Howard M. Sachar, American historian
 * 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
 * Debra Schultz, American feminist historian
 * Yossi Schwartz
 * 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
 * Enrique Semo, Mexican historian
 * Bernard Semmel, U.S. historian
 * Michael Shamah, British Archaeologist
 * Moshe Shamir, Israeli writer and historian
 * Leeor Shimron, American 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 (historian), Austrian historian of classical Rome
 * Aurel Stein, archeologist
 * Henri Stein, French bibliographer and historian
 * Samuel Steinherz, Czechoslovakian mediaevalist
 * Alfred Stern, Swiss social historian
 * Fritz Stern, German-born American historian
 * Menahem Stern, Israeli historian of ancient Judaism
 * Zeev Sternhell, Israeli historian of French fascism
 * Barry Supple, British economic historian (Jewish Year Book, 2005, p. 215)

T

 * Hayim Tadmor, Assyriologist
 * Jacob Talmon, Israeli political and social historian
 * Frank Tannenbaum, U.S. economic historian
 * John Thorn, U.S. baseball historian; official historian of Major League Baseball
 * Rosa Levin Toubin, Jewish Texan historian
 * Hans Trefousse, U.S. historian
 * Barbara Tuchman, U.S. journalist and historian

U

 * Adam Ulam, Polish-born American historian of Marxism, Communism, and 20th Century Russian history
 * Irwin Unger, U.S. political and social historian

V

 * Geza Vermes, Hungarian-born British historian

W

 * Joanna Waley-Cohen, English historian now in New York
 * Bernard Wasserstein, British historian of the Middle East and Europe
 * Eugen Weber, Modern European History
 * Gerhard Weinberg, German-born American historian of World War Two
 * Robert Weinberg, American historian of Russia
 * 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
 * Michael Wolffsohn, Israeli-born German 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

 * Abraham Zacuto, historian and scientist
 * Rehavam Zeevi, Israeli historian
 * 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