Howard Sachar
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Howard Morley Sachar (born in 1928) is a historian and an author. His writings have been published in six languages.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, and reared in Champaign, Illinois, he received his undergraduate education at Swarthmore College and took his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Harvard University. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the American Historical Association and several other learned societies and serves on a dozen scholarly editorial boards and commissions. From 1961 to 1964, he served as founder-director of Brandeis University's Jacob Hiatt Institute in Jerusalem.
Based in Washington, D.C., where he is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at George Washington University, Dr. Sachar is a consultant and lecturer on Middle Eastern affairs for the United States Foreign Service Institute. Over the years, he has been a Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University, and has guest lectured at some 150 other universities in the United States, Europe, South Africa and Egypt. In 1996, Dr. Sachar was awarded the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, from the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion.
Dr. Sachar has twice been the recipient of the National Jewish Book Award. He has contributed to many scholarly journals and is the author of 15 books.
Works
- The Course of Modern Jewish History (Updated 1990)
- Aliyah: The Peoples of Israel
- From the Ends of the Earth: The Peoples of Israel
- The Emergence of the Middle East
- Europe Leaves the Middle East
- A History of Israel from Rise of Zionism to Our Time
- The Man on the Camel
- Egypt and Israel
- Diaspora
- A History of Israel from the Aftermath of the Yom Kippur War
- A History of the Jews in America
- Farewell Espana: The World of the Sephardim Remembered
- Israel and Europe: An Appraisal in History
- A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time (Second Edition, Revised and Updated) 1997
- Dreamland: Europeans and Jews in the Aftermath of the Great War
- A History of the Jews in the Modern World (2005)
- He is also the editor-in-chief of the 39-volume The Rise of Israel: A Documentary History
- Editor of: "The Unlikely Partnership: Germany and Israel"
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