Curated category
Jewish historians
- Hans L. TrefousseHans Louis Trefousse spent eleven hours in Leipzig arguing with a Nazi commander who had barricaded himself and his troops inside a fortified position.
- Karl MarxOn the 14th of March 1883, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, Friedrich Engels left Karl Marx alone in his armchair for scarcely two minutes.
- JosephusFlavius Josephus surrendered to the Roman army in AD 67, then told his captor a prophecy that would save his life. Trapped in a cave with forty companions…
- Claude Lévi-StraussClaude Lévi-Strauss died on the 30th of October 2009, at the age of 100, and for four days the world did not know. When French President Nicolas Sarkozy…
- Eric HobsbawmEric John Ernest Hobsbawm was born on the 9th of June 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt, and he died on the 1st of October 2012 in London, just shy of his 96th…
- Mark LewisohnMark Lewisohn was born on the 16th of June 1958, and since the 1980s he has built an entire career around one band. He has worked for EMI, MPL Communications…
- Abraham ZacutoAbraham Zacuto was born in Salamanca on the 12th of August 1452, into a family that had lived on the Iberian peninsula since the expulsion of Jews from…
- Erwin PanofskyErwin Panofsky looked at a fifteenth-century Flemish painting of a man and a woman in a dim room and saw something no one else had seen: a legal contract.
- Hans KohnHans Kohn was born on the 15th of September 1891, in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, into a German-speaking Jewish family.
- Abba EbanAbba Eban stood before the United Nations General Assembly in 1967 and delivered a defence of Israel so finely constructed that Henry Kissinger later said he…