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Abraham Harkavy
Russian historian (1835–1919)
Isaak Markus Jost
German historian
Max Beer
German academic (1864-1943)
Simha Flapan
Israeli politician (1911–1987)
Ruth Kark
Israeli historical geographer
Ida Mett
Russian-born anarchist and writer (1901-1973)
Moshe Gil
Israeli historian (1921–2014)
Shmuel Katz
Israeli writer, journalist and historian (1914–2008)
Jason of Cyrene
Hellenistic Jewish historian (fl. ca. 100 BCE)
Robert S. Wistrich
Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1945–2015)
Ben-Zion Dinur
Israeli historian and politician (1884-1973)
David Gans
German scientist
Avigdor Arikha
Israeli artist (1929-2010)
Meyer Kayserling
German rabbi, historian (1829-1905)
Mark Lewisohn
English author and historian
Lazăr Șăineanu
Romania philologist, linguist, folklorist and cultural historian (1859–1934)
David Flusser
Israeli academic (1917–2000)
Mirjana Gross
Croatian historian (1922–2012)
Hans Kohn
American historian (1891-1971)
Raphael Patai
Hungarian academic (1910–1996)
Jules Schelvis
Dutch historian (1921–2016)
Léon Halévy
French historian (1802-1883)
Irving Abella
Canadian historian (1940–2022)
Michael Loewe
British sinologist and historian (1922–2025)
Ludwig Riess
German historian (1861-1928)
Annette Wieviorka
French historian (1948- )
Edgar Wind
German-born British interdisciplinary art historian
Alfred Eckhard Zimmern
British academic (1879-1957)
Hyam Maccoby
British scholar of Judeo-Christian religious tradition (1924-2004)
Israel Belkind
Russian historian
Yosef Garfinkel
Israeli archaeologist
Harry Bresslau
German historian (1848–1926)
Esther Benbassa
French historian and politician
Ella Shohat
cultural studies researcher and lecturer in New York, originally from Israel
Otto Lenel
German Jewish jurist and legl historian (1849-1935)
Jacob M. Landau
Israeli orientalist, political scientist and historian (1924-2020)
Isaak Rubin
Russian economist (1886-1937)
Meir Pa'il
Israeli politician (1926-2015)
Eleonora Bergman
Polish architect
Adolph Goldschmidt
German art historian (1863-1944)
Heinrich Friedjung
historian and journalist (1851–1920)
Efraim Karsh
Israeli-British historian (born 1953)
Baruch Kimmerling
Israeli sociologist and historian (1939–2007)
Amos Elon
Israeli journalist and author (1926–2009)
Majer Samuel Bałaban
Polish historian (1877–1942)
Charles Bettelheim
French historian and economist (1913-2006)
Ahimaaz ben Paltiel
Italian poet
Boris Hessen
Russian philosopher and physicist (1893-1936)
Pseudo-Philo
Pseudo-Philo is the name commonly used for the unknown, anonymous author of the Biblical Antiquities. This text is also commonly known today under the Latin title Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum (Book of Biblical Antiquities), a title that is not found in the Latin manuscripts. Although probably originally written in Hebrew, it is preserved today only through a Latin translation found in 18 complete and 3 fragmentary manuscripts that date between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries CE. In addition, material paralleling that in the Biblical Antiquities is also found in the Chronicles of Jerahmee
Gedaliah Alon
HIstorian (1902–1950)
Sophie Bessis
French-Tunisian historian and journalist
Yossi Melman
Israeli writer and journalist (born 1950)
David Cassel
German historian and Jewish theologian (1818–1893)
Ignác Acsády
(1845–1906) historian
Avrom Ber Gotlober
Ukrainian Jewish writer and historian (1811–1899)
Eupolemus
Eupolemus () is the earliest Hellenistic Jewish historian whose writing survives from Antiquity. Five (or possibly six) fragments of his work have been preserved in Eusebius of Caesarea's Praeparatio Evangelica (hereafter abbreviated as Praep.), embedded in quotations from the historian Alexander Polyhistor, and in the Stromata (hereafter abbreviated as Strom.) of Clement of Alexandria.
Franz Borkenau
Austrian writer (1900–1957)
Solomon ibn Verga
Spanish historian
Jacob Caro
German historian (1835–1904)
Elie Kedourie
British historian (1926–1992)