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(EJL) Howard Adelson, U.S. mediaeval historian Cyrus Adler,Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Adler, Cyrus U.S. historian of Jewish history Geoffrey Alderman,"her father, Geoffrey Alderman, is a columnist for the Jewish Chronicle, and her family are strict Orthodox Jews" Accessed 3 Jan 2007 historian Mor Altshuler, Israeli historian of early Hasidism, Kabbalism, and Jewish messianismMor Altshuler's Curriculum Vitae Iosif Amusin, Soviet historianАмусин Иосиф Anne Applebaum, U.S. journalist, writer on the history of the Soviet Union, Russia, Central and Eastern Europe Herbert Aptheker, leader in Communist Party, historianhttp://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/87.1/interview.html "And I'm Jewish. I was about to go to Command and General Staff School and be promoted..." (subscription needed to view full text) Yitzhak Arad, Israeli historian of the Shoah"Lithuania drops war crimes probe of Israeli historian," canada.com (September 24, 2008). 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, EgyptJohn M. G. Barclay, Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora, University of California Press, 1996. 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 historianEncyclopaedia Judaica, art. Bentwich 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 Congressj. - Celebrity Jews: Rich Guys Donate 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 historianhttps://web.archive.org/web/20070318192038/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2004%2F10%2F01%2Fdb0103.xml&sSheet=%2Fportal%2F2004%2F10%2F01%2Fixportal.html "Cantor, himself Jewish, took on the "ruling circles of the American and Israeli Jewish communities"." 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."later known as Ariel (1898-1981), a Russian Jewish immigrant and talented student..."
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 historianhttp://arthistorians.info/ettinghausenr , "Both a Jew and an avid Islamicist"
F Orlando Figes, British historian of Russia Louis Filler, U.S. historian Sidney Fine, U.S. historian Samuel Finer, British political scientist and historianJewish Chronicle obituary, June 25, 1993, p.15 Norman Finkelstein, American historian Moses I. Finley, Classical Historian.Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed. 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 AmericaHooked On American Jewish History Yossi Goldstein, Israeli biographer Ernst Gombrich, Austrian-born British art historian Cassandra Good, PhD in history from the University of Pennsylvania. 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 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "He was buried in Golders Green Jewish cemetery" 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"The German-Jewish historian, George Hallgarten" 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 historianEncyclopaedia Judaica, art. Hilberg, Raul 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#Historians) 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 Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "son of Jewish parents" 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 , French linguistic historian Bernard Lewis, British orientalist, History of Islam"He is Jewish, a native of London, in his 80s." David Malcolm Lewis, British historian. (Jewish Year Book 1995 p. 193) Felix Liebermann, German mediaevalist Ephraim Lipson, British economic historian