Curated category
Jewish historians
- Hans L. TrefousseHans Louis Trefousse was born on the 18th of December 1921 in Germany. His family fled the Nazi regime and arrived in the United States in 1935.
- 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 was born in Jerusalem to a father named Matthias, who belonged to the priestly order of Jehoiarib. This order held the distinction of being…
- Claude Lévi-StraussClaude Lévi-Strauss was born on the 28th of November 1908 in Brussels. His parents were French Jews who had moved there for his father's work as a portrait…
- Eric HobsbawmEric Hobsbawm entered the world on the 9th of June 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt. His father Leopold Percy Hobsbaum was a Jewish merchant from London's East End…
- Mark LewisohnMark Lewisohn was born on the 16th of June 1958 in England. His entry into professional history began with a simple quiz at the first London Beatles…
- Abraham ZacutoAbraham Zacuto entered the world on the 12th of August 1452 within the stone walls of Salamanca, Castile. He studied astronomy at the University of Salamanca…
- Erwin PanofskyErwin Panofsky was born on the 30th of March 1892 in Hanover. His parents, Arnold and Caecilie (Solling) Panofsky, were a rentier mining family from Upper…
- Hans KohnHans Kohn was born on the 15th of September 1891 into a German-speaking Jewish family in Prague. The city belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire at that…
- Abba EbanAubrey Solomon Meir Eban entered the world on the 2nd of February 1915 in Cape Town, South Africa. His parents were Lithuanian Jewish immigrants seeking a…