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Richard Ettinghausen, art historian [8] Norman Finkelstein, [9] author and historian; Robert Fogel, economist and historian [10] Peter Gay [11] Yosef Goldman [12] Deborah Hertz [13] Raul Hilberg [14] Richard Hofstadter [15] Joseph Jacobs, [16] editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia; Gabriel Kolko; Bernard Lewis [17] Deborah Lipstadt [18] John Lukacs ...
Ronald Radosh, American historian of espionage [citation needed] Armin Rappaport, U.S. historian [2] Uriel Rappaport, Israeli historian of the Second Temple period [40] Sidney Ratner, U.S. economic historian [2] Jehuda Reinharz, U.S.-Israeli historian of modern Jewish history [citation needed] Ludwig Riess, German constitutional historian [2]
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 ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American historians. It includes American historians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Contents
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. He is currently the Adolph S. Ochs Emeritus Professor of Jewish History at that institution. [1]
Adam S. Ferziger (born November 10, 1964, in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn) is an American intellectual and social historian whose research focuses on Jewish religious movements and religious responses to secularization and assimilation in modern and contemporary North America, Europe and Israel.
His research has included work on modern folk medicine, magic, and medieval pharmacology, which have been published in "The Language and Culture of the Jews of Sefrou", as well as in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, and the Dictionary of the Middle Ages. [4]
Initially, American Jews resisted Israeli efforts. Following Mikhail Gorbachev's decision in the late 1980s to allow free emigration for Soviet Jews, the American Jewish community agreed to a quota on Soviet Jewish refugees in the U.S., which resulted in most Soviet Jewish émigrés settling in Israel. [134]