Lionel Kochan

Lionel Edmond Kochan (August 201922–September 252005) was a British historian, who before coming to academia worked in journalism and publishing. He was a doctoral student of Sir Charles Webster. His first post in 1959 was at Edinburgh University; he became Bearsted Reader in Jewish History at University of Warwick in 1969.

He was born in London into a secular Jewish family. His scholarly writing became increasingly concerned with Jewish history.

Works

*"Acton on History" (1954)
*"Russia and the Weimar Republic" (1954)
*"Pogrom: 10 November 1938" (1957)
*"The Making of Modern Russia" (1962)
*"The Struggle for Germany 1914-45" (1963)
*"Russia in Revolution 1890-1918" (1966)
*"The Jews in Soviet Russia since 1917" (1970) editor
*"The Russian Revolution" (1970)
*"The Jewish Family Album: The Life of a People in Photographs" (1974) editor with Miriam Kochan
*"The Jew and His History" (1977)
*"The Scapegoats: the Exodus of the Remnants of Polish Jewry" (1979) with Josef Banas
*"Jews, Idols and Messiahs: The Challenge from History" (1990)
*"The Jewish Renaissance and Some of Its Discontents" (1992)
*"Beyond the Graven

*"The Making of Western Jewry, 1600-1819" (2004)

External links

* [http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,1605690,00.html Guardian obituary]
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1819717,00.html Times obituary]