Howard Sachar

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Howard Morley Sachar (February 10, 1928 – April 18, 2018) was an American historian. He was Professor Emeritus of History and International Affairs at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and the author of 16 books,[1] as well as numerous articles in scholarly journals, on the subjects of Middle Eastern and Modern European history. His writings, which have been published in six languages,[2] are widely regarded as solid reference works.[3][4][5][6]

Early, personal life and education

Howard Morley Sachar was born to historian and academic administrator

St. Louis, Missouri, and raised in Champaign, Illinois. He was the eldest of three brothers; his brother Edward J. Sachar became a pioneering biological psychiatrist and David B. Sachar
became a gastroenterologist.

Sachar completed his undergraduate education at Swarthmore College and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history at Harvard University.[2][9]

He married Eliana Steimatzky and had three children: Sharon, Michele and Daniel.

Career

Sachar was a full-time faculty member of the Department of History and the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University for 40 years.

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He also received the National Jewish Book Award on two separate occasions.[2] In 1977, for A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time and in 1982 for Egypt and Israel.[10]

In 1961 Sachar founded Brandeis University's Jacob Hiatt Institute in Jerusalem,[2] one of the first study-abroad programs in Israel,[1] and served as its director until 1964.[2] Through his connections with the United States Foreign Service, where he worked as a consultant and lecturer on Middle Eastern Affairs,[2] he was able to obtain funding for the Jacob Hiatt Institute from the U.S. State Department in 1965.[1]

He was a member of the American Historical Association as well as one dozen editorial boards and commissions. In addition to his books, he was editor-in-chief of the 39-volume The Rise of Israel: A documentary history.[2]

Howard Sachar died at his home in Kensington, Maryland, on April 18, 2018, aged 90.[11]

Political position

Sachar was a member of the advisory council of the pro-peace lobbying organization

J Street and an advocate of the two-state solution for the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.[12]

Works

  • The Course of Modern Jewish History (1959; updated 1990)[13] Lib. of Cong. Cat. No. 58-67-57
  • Aliyah: The peoples of Israel (1961)[14] Lib. of Cong. Cat. No. 61-12017
  • From the Ends of the Earth: The peoples of Israel (1964)[15] Lib. of Cong. Cat. No. 64-12064
  • The Emergence of the Middle East: 1914–1924 (1969) [16] Lib. of Cong. Cat. No. 76-79349
  • Europe Leaves the Middle East, 1936–1954 (1972)[17]
  • A History of Israel: From the rise of Zionism to our time (1976; 3rd edition 2007)[18]
  • The Man on the Camel: A novel (1980)[19]
  • Egypt and Israel (1981)[20]
  • Diaspora: An inquiry into the contemporary Jewish world (1985)[21]
  • A History of Israel, Volume II: From the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War (1987)[22]
  • The Rise of Israel: A documentary record from the nineteenth century to 1948 : a facsimile series reproducing over 1,900 documents in 39 volumes, Volume 1 (1987)[23]
  • A History of the Jews in America (1992)[24]
  • Farewell Espana: The world of the Sephardim remembered (1994; reprinted 1995)[25]
  • Israel and Europe: An Appraisal in History (1998; reprinted 2000)[26]
  • Dreamland: Europeans and Jews in the aftermath of the Great War (2002; reprinted 2003)[27]
  • A History of the Jews in the Modern World (2005; reprinted 2006)[28]
  • The Assassination of Europe, 1918-1942: A Political History (2004)[29]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Fuchs, Sam (11 September 2009). "All in the Family: Dr. Howard Sachar and the Jacob Hiatt Institute". Brandeis University. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Emeritus Faculty: Howard M. Sachar". George Washington University. Archived from the original on 28 July 2020. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  3. ^ Benn, Aluf (11 December 2009). "What To Read On Israeli Politics". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 31 January 2011. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  4. The Jewish Daily Forward
    . Retrieved 31 January 2011.
  5. ^ Zipperstein, Steven J. (4 September 2005). "'A History of the Jews in the Modern World': The Best of Times?". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
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  7. ^ Lyons, Richard D. (25 July 1993). "Dr. Abram L. Sachar, Historian And 1st Brandeis U. President, 94". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
  8. ^ Kirsch, Jonathan (28 December 1994). "BOOK REVIEW / HISTORY: A Poignant Celebration of a Rich Vein of Jewish History: FAREWELL ESPANA: The World of the Sephardim Remembered by Howard M. Sachar, Knopf, $30, 439 pages". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
  9. ^ Silverman, Ellie (May 22, 2018). "Howard M. Sachar, GWU scholar and 'trailblazer' of Jewish history, dies at 90". Washington Post. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  10. ^ "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  11. ^ "Eminent historian Howard Sachar passes away at home at age 90". Jerusalem Post. April 23, 2018. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  12. J Street. Archived from the original
    on 20 April 2008. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
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  14. ^ Sachar, Howard Morley (1961). Aliyah: The peoples of Israel. World Publishing Co. p. 475.
  15. ^ Sachar, Howard Morley (1964). From the Ends of the Earth: The peoples of Israel. World Publishing Co. p. 510.
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