Academic figures List of British Jews

1 academic figures

1.1 scientists
1.2 historians
1.3 medical
1.4 philosophers
1.5 social scientists
1.6 theologians , hebraists
1.7 others

academic figures
scientists

see list of british jewish scientists, includes economists.

historians

david abulafia, professor of history, university of cambridge
geoffrey alderman, historian
richard david barnett, museum curator , archaeologist
max beloff, lord beloff, historian (encyclopaedia judaica, art. historians)
david cesarani, historian
norman cohn, historian
isaac deutscher, historian
geoffrey rudolph elton, historian
samuel finer
sir moses i. finley, historian , sociologist
sir martin gilbert, historian
martin goodman
philip guedalla, biographer
eric hobsbawm, historian , communist theoretician
albert montefiore hyamson, zionist , historian
jonathan israel, historian
joseph jacobs, editor of jewish encyclopedia
lisa jardine, historian
tony judt, director of erich maria remarque institute @ new york university
elie kedourie, historian , political scientist
otto kurz, historian
bernard lewis, historian
david malcolm lewis, professor of history, university of oxford
hyam maccoby, professor of history
sir philip magnus, 1st baronet, educationalist , politician
sir philip magnus-allcroft, 2nd baronet, biographer
shula marks, expert on african history
arnaldo momigliano, professor of history, university college london
lewis bernstein namier, historian (converted anglicanism)
sir francis palgrave (born cohen) (1768–1861), uk historian
sir michael postan, historian
cecil roth, historian , editor of encyclopaedia judaica
simon schama, historian
leonard schapiro, historian
simon sebag montefiore, historian
charles singer, historian of science
sir aurel stein, archeologist
barry supple, british economic historian (jewish year book, 2005, p. 215)
geza vermes

medical

sir george alberti, president, royal college of physicians
asher asher, first scottish jewish doctor
henry cohen, 1st baron cohen of birkenhead, president of royal society of medicine
sir ian gainsford, dentist
sir abraham goldberg, regius professor of medicine, university of glasgow, 1923–2007
max hamilton, psychiatrist
roderigo lopez, new christian doctor queen elizabeth i
john henry marks, chairman of british medical association
sir jonathan miller, physician , theatre director
leslie turnberg, baron turnberg, professor, fmedsci
lord robert winston, medical doctor, politician, , television personality
oliver zangwill, professor of psychology

philosophers

samuel alexander, professor of philosophy @ manchester, born in australia, first jewish fellow of oxbridge college
sir alfred ayer, philosopher, populariser of logical positivism (jewish mother)
sir isaiah berlin, political philosopher
max black, philosopher
alain de botton, swiss-british jewish philosopher
gerald cohen, oxford professor of philosophy
laurence jonathan cohen, oxford professor of philosophy
ernest gellner, philosopher social scientist
h. l. a. hart, legal philosopher
brian klug, senior research fellow in philosophy, st benet s hall, university of oxford; concepts of race, antisemitism, islamophobia, jewish identity
stephan korner, bristol professor of philosophy
imre lakatos, hungarian-born philosopher
alexander piatigorsky, philosopher, buddhologist, writer
michael polanyi, anglo-hungarian scientist , philosopher
sir karl popper, philosopher of science (family became lutheran)
jonathan romain, minister of maidenhead jewish community , leader of british reform movement
richard rudolf walzer
ludwig wittgenstein, philosopher; jewish grandparents on both sides of family had converted christianity in 19th century; christened, raised , buried catholic
richard wollheim

social scientists


roy clive abraham, linguist
michael balint, psychoanalyst (converted unitarianism)
zygmunt bauman, sociologist
basil bernstein, linguist
vernon bogdanor, professor of politics
georgina born, anthropologist; daughter of gustav victor rudolf born
gerald cohen, professor of social , political theory
arthur lumley davids, linguist , orientalist
norbert elias, sociologist
herman finer, political scientist
samuel finer, political scientist
sir moses i. finley, historian , sociologist
meyer fortes, anthropologist
eduard fraenkel, philologist
anna freud, child psychoanalyst
norman geras, professor of government
morris ginsberg
max gluckman, anthropologist
theodor goldstücker, orientalist
jean gottmann, professor of geography, oxford university
julius gould, sociologist
paul hirst, social theorist (jewish mother)
marie jahoda, psychology of discrimination
melanie klein, child psychoanalyst
geoffrey lewis lewis, professor of turkish
steven lukes, political scientist
ashley montagu, anthropologist , humanist
isaac schapera, anthropologist
edward ullendorff, linguist

theologians , hebraists

isaac abendana, hebraist
chimen abramsky, professor of hebrew
lionel barnett, orientalist
abraham benisch, hebraist , editor of jewish chronicle
immanuel oscar menahem deutsch, semitic scholar , orientalist
alfred edersheim, bible scholar
philip ferdinand, professor of hebrew
christian david ginsburg, expert on masoretic text
ridley haim herschell, missionary
marcus kalisch, hebraist , biblical commentator
david levi, jewish scholar
david samuel margoliouth, orientalist (family converted anglicanism)
hugh montefiore, bishop
adolf neubauer, hebraist
stefan reif, cambridge academic
judah segal, professor of semitic languages
joseph wolff, missionary

others

sidney greenbaum, quain professor of english language , literature, university college london 1983-90




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^ jewish, zimbabwean, mancunian philosopher... have lived in manchester more half life , @ home here.
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