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J. Salwyn Schapiro, American historian of modern Europe [2] Leonard Schapiro, [44] historian; Meyer Schapiro, Lithuanian-born American art historian [45] David Schoenbaum, modern German history [citation needed] Moses Schorr, historian of Polish Jews [citation needed] Debra Schultz, American feminist historian [citation needed] Yossi Schwartz ...
Michael Albert Meyer (born 1937) is a German-born American historian of modern Jewish history. He taught for over 50 years at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Joseph Jacobs, [16] editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia; Gabriel Kolko; 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] Ron Unz, historian and ...
Modern Jewish historiography is the development of the Jewish historical narrative into the modern era.While Jewish oral history and the collection of commentaries in the Midrash and Talmud are ancient, with the rise of the printing press and movable type in the early modern period, Jewish histories and early editions of the Torah/Tanakh were published which dealt with the history of the ...
Paula Hyman (September 30, 1946 – December 15, 2011) was an American social historian who served as the Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University. She served as the president of the American Academy for Jewish Research from 2004 to 2008.
David B. Ruderman is the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Pennsylvania, Emeritus. [1] From 1994 to 2014 he was the Ella Darivoff Director of Penn's Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, where he also held a fellowship from 2017 to 2018.
The Society's Loeb Portrait Database of American Jewish Portraits is a repository of more than 400 portraits of pre-1865 American Jews. [14] The Society also maintains the Jewish-American Hall of Fame, which was founded in 1969 at the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, California, and became part of the American Jewish Historical Society in ...
Historians believe American Jewish history has been characterized by an unparalleled degree of freedom, acceptance, and prosperity that has made it possible for Jews to bring together their ethnic identities with the demands of national citizenship far more effortlessly than Jews in Europe. [123]