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This is a list of notable Jewish American historians. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.

• Cyrus Adler
• Herbert Aptheker
• Bernard Bailyn
• Daniel J. Boorstin
• Norman Cantor
• Ariel Durant
• Stanley Elkins
• Richard Ettinghausen, art historian
• Norman Finkelstein, author and historian
• Robert Fogel, economist and historian
• Peter Gay
• Yosef Goldman
• Deborah Hertz
• Raul Hilberg
• Richard Hofstadter
• Joseph Jacobs, editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia
• Gabriel Kolko
• Bernard Lewis
• Deborah Lipstadt
• John Lukacs, Hungarian-born historian
• Erwin Panofsky
• Richard Popkin, historian of philosophy
• Meyer Schapiro
• Rosa Levin Toubin, historian of Jewish Texan history
• Barbara Tuchman
• Ron Unz, historian and writer
• Stanley M. Wagner, rabbi and academic
• Howard Zinn

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3. Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Bailyn, Bernard
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6. http://www.historyforsale.com/html/prodetails.asp?documentid=252942&start=2&page=63 "later known as Ariel (1898-1981), a Russian Jewish immigrant and talented student..."
7. Kirsten Fermaglich, "'One of the Lucky Ones': Stanley Elkins and the Concentration Camp Analogy in Slavery" in American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957-1965 (2007)
8. Dictionary of Art Historians Archived 2006-10-03 at the Wayback Machine "Both a Jew and an avid Islamicist"
9. "chomsky.info : The Noam Chomsky Website".
10. "Jewish Nobel Prize Laureates".
11. Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Gay, Peter
12. "Hooked on American Jewish History,Dr. Yitzchok Levine". Archived from the original on November 20, 2008. Retrieved November 20, 2008.
13. "Assimilation a history lesson". thejc.com. Retrieved May 6, 2023.
14. Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Hilberg, Raul
15. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/076407.html "Half Jewish, he was part of the first wave of intellectuals to incorporate secular, cosmopolitan..."
16. "Joseph Jacobs". Archived from the original on April 20, 2007. Retrieved May 7, 2007.
17. http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/middleeast/Bernard_Lewis_Unplugged.asp "He is Jewish, a native of London, in his 80s."
18. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4578534.stm "Lipstadt, the American Jewish academic who exposes Holocaust deniers is not exactly..."
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20. Goodwin, George M (1998). "A New Jewish Elite: Curators, Directors, and Benefactors of American Art Museums". Modern Judaism. 18 (1): 119–152. doi:10.1093/mj/18.2.119. Project MUSE 22042. Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968), another Jewish scholar associated with the Warburg Library, was the most illustrious art historian who found refuge in America.
21. Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Philosophy"
22. http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/schapiro-obit.html "An archetypal Jewish immigrant, Schapiro arrived in the United States at the age..."
23. https://web.archive.org/web/20091026161311/http://geocities.com/txsynvr/TJHSreferencelist.html "Rosa Levin Toubin, Brenham Kehilla Historian"."
24. http://www.jcpa.org/jpsr/jpsr-yegar-f05.htm "American Jewish historian Barbara Tuchman was born in New York City on 30..."
25. Rosenberg, John S. (April 26, 2016). "The Quiet Campaign". Harvard Magazine.
26. http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=12705 ""The Corporation," the lineup was a quartet of four Jewish left intellectuals, including Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn..."

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• American historians