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Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
Claude Lévi-Strauss
French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)

Josephus
Flavius Josephus (born Yosef ben Mattityahu; ) was a Roman–Jewish historian and military leader. Best known for writing The Jewish War, he was born in Jerusalem—then part of the Roman province of Judea—to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed Hasmonean royal ancestry.
Eric Hobsbawm
British academic historian and Marxist historiographer (1917–2012)
Arthur Koestler
Hungarian-British author and journalist (1905–1983)
Marc Bloch
French historian (1886–1944)

Erwin Panofsky
German art historian (1892–1968)
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
2nd President of Israel (1952–1963) - (1884–1963)

Karl Polanyi
Hungarian economist, philosopher and historian

Benjamin of Tudela
Jewish explorer and writer
Abba Eban
Israeli diplomat and politician (1915-2002)

Pierre Nora
French historian and publisher (1931–2025)

Jacob Bronowski
Polish-born British mathematician (1908–1974)

Aby Warburg
German art historian and cultural theorist (1866–1929)

Egon Friedell
Austrian philosopher, historian, journalist, actor, cabaret performer (Kabarettist) and theatre critic (1878–1938)

Ilan Pappé
Israeli-British historian (born 1954)
Gershom Scholem
German-Israeli philosopher (1897–1982)
Eli Heckscher
Swedish historian and economist (1879–1952)
Carlo Ginzburg
Italian historian (1939-)
Abraham ibn Daud
12th century Spanish astronomer, historian and philosopher
Grace Aguilar
English novelist, poet and writer on Jewish history and religion
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Volin
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum (18 September 1945), commonly known by his pseudonym Volin, was a Russian anarchist intellectual. He became involved in revolutionary socialist politics during the 1905 Russian Revolution, for which he was forced into exile, where he gravitated towards anarcho-syndicalism.
Maxime Rodinson
French historian, sociologist and orientalist (1915–2004)
Alexander Kazhdan
Soviet historian and Byzantine Empire specialist (1922-1997)
Yehuda Bauer
Holocaust survivor and Israeli historian (1926–2024)
Pierre Vidal-Naquet
French historian (1930–2006)
Sofya Yanovskaya
Russian mathematician (1896–1966)
Abraham Zacuto
Spanish Jewish astronomer and rabbi (1452 – c. 1515)
Ibrahim ibn Yaqub
10th century Hispanic Jewish merchant
Joseph Jacobs
Australian folklorist, historian and writer (1854–1916)
Benny Morris
Israeli historian (born 1948)
Zeev Sternhell
Israeli historian (1935-2020)
Benzion Netanyahu
Jewish encyclopedist, historian and medievalist (1910–2012)
Boris Eikhenbaum
Russian historian (1886–1959)
Yitzhak Arad
Israeli historian, retired IDF brigadier general and a former Soviet partisan who has served as director of Yad Vashem from 1972 to 1993
Emanuel Ringelblum
Polish historian (1900-1944)
Tom Segev
Israeli historian
Jacob Talmon
historian of Modern Age, political scientist, pedagogue, penman, university teacher (1916-1980)
Robert Jungk
Austrian publicist and writer (1913–1994)
Simon Dubnow
historian, writer, activist
Heinrich Graetz
Prussian Jewish historian (1817 – 1891)
Sidney Lee
English biographer and critic (1859–1926)
Felix Jacoby
German classicist and philologist (1876–1959)
Avi Shlaim
Israeli-British historian (born 1945)
Moritz Steinschneider
Czech bibliographer (1816–1907)
Lev Nussimbaum
German-language writer of the Jewish origion (1905–1942)
Leopold Zunz
German Reform Rabbi (1794-1886)
Ernst Kantorowicz
German historian (1895–1963)
Léon Poliakov
French historian (1910–1997)
Szymon Askenazy
Polish historian and statesman (1866-1935)
Israel Gutman
Polish-born Israeli histoiran and Holocaust survivor (1923-2013)
Maja Bošković-Stulli
Croatian historian (1922–2012)
Max Jakob Friedländer
German curator and art historian (1867-1958)
Derek J. de Solla Price
British historian and physicist (1922–1983)
Zecharias Frankel
Bohemian-German rabbi and historian (1801-1875)
Daniel Halévy
French historian (1872-1962)
Anita Shapira
Israeli historian
Philipp Jaffé
German historian (1819–1870)
Ruth Kark
Israeli historical geographer
Justus of Tiberias
Jewish author