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
• Peter Gay^[10]
• Yosef Goldman
• Anthony Grafton
• Deborah Hertz
• Raul Hilberg^[11]
• Richard Hofstadter^[12]
• Joseph Jacobs , editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia
• Bernard Lewis^[13]
• Deborah Lipstadt^[14]
• John Lukacs, Hungarian-born historian
• Erwin Panofsky^[15]
• Richard Popkin, historian of philosophy ^[16]
• Meyer Schapiro^[17]
• Rosa Levin Toubin, historian of Jewish Texan history.^[18]
• Barbara Tuchman^[19]
• Rudolf Wittkower, architectural historian
• Howard Zinn^[20]

References

Footnotes

1. ↑ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Adler, Cyrus
2. ↑ "And I'm Jewish. I was about to go to Command and General Staff School and be promoted..." (subscription needed to view full text)
3. ↑ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Bailyn, Bernard
4. ↑ j. - celebrity jews
5. ↑ "Cantor, himself Jewish, took on the "ruling circles of the American and Israeli Jewish communities"."
6. ↑ "later known as Ariel (1898-1981), a Russian Jewish immigrant and talented student..."
7. ↑ 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)
8. ↑ Dictionary of Art Historians "Both a Jew and an avid Islamicist"
9. ↑
10. ↑ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Gay, Peter
11. ↑ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Hilberg, Raul
12. ↑ "Half Jewish, he was part of the first wave of intellectuals to incorporate secular, cosmopolitan..."
13. ↑ "He is Jewish, a native of London, in his 80s."
14. ↑ "Lipstadt, the American Jewish academic who exposes Holocaust deniers is not exactly..."
15. ↑ "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)
16. ↑ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Philosophy"
17. ↑ "An archetypal Jewish immigrant, Schapiro arrived in the United States at the age..."
18. ↑ "Rosa Levin Toubin, Brenham Kehilla Historian"."
19. ↑ "American Jewish historian Barbara Tuchman was born in New York City on 30..."
20. ↑ ""The Corporation," the lineup was a quartet of four Jewish left intellectuals, including Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn..."