Lilian Handlin, née Bombach, is an American historian. She studied at Queens College in New York City and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She became a professor of history at Hebrew University.
Lilian Handlin | |
|---|---|
| Born | Lilian Bombach |
| Spouse | |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Queens College, City University of New York Brown University Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Doctoral advisor | Yehoshua Arieli |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | U.S. history |
| Institutions | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Life
editLilian Bombach was born to Edith Schneeweiss and Leon Bombach.[1] She completed a B.A. from Queens College, City University of New York.[2][3] Bombach earned a M.A. from Brown University.[3] She completed a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[2][3] Her 1975 dissertation, about American historian and diplomat George Bancroft, was titled George Bancroft, Jacksonian reformer.[4] Yehoshua Arieli was Bombach's doctoral advisor.[4]
From 1970 to 1977, Handlin was an associate professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[2][3] She married historian Oscar Handlin in 1977.[5] In 1984, Handlin published a biography of George Bancroft.[6] Handlin and her husband co-published a biography of President Abraham Lincoln (1980) and surveys of American history including the four-volume Liberty in America: 1600 to the Present.
She was married to Oscar Handlin from 1977 until his death in 2011.[5]
Selected bibliography
editAuthored
edit- George Bancroft: The Intellectual as Democrat (Harper and Row, 1984)[7]
Co-authored with Oscar Handlin
edit- Abraham Lincoln and the Union (Plunkett Lake Press, 1980)
- A Restless People: Americans in Rebellion, 1770–1787 (Anchor Press, 1982)
- Liberty and Power: 1600–1760: Volume One of Liberty in America: 1600 to the Present (Harper & Row, 1986)[8]
- Liberty in Expansion, 1760–1850: Volume Two of Liberty in America: 1600 to the Present (William A. Thomas Braille Bookstore, 1993)
- From the Outer World (1997)[9]
References
edit- ^ "Bombach obituary". The Boston Globe. 2001-02-02. p. 28. Retrieved 2023-03-31 – via Newspaper.com.
- ^ a b c "Alumni Historians". QC History Department. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
- ^ a b c d "Plunkett Lake Press". plunkettlakepress.com. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
- ^ a b Bombach, Lilian (1975). George Bancroft, Jacksonian reformer (Ph.D. thesis). Hebrew University of Jerusalem. OCLC 42611432.
- ^ a b Feeney, Mark (2011-09-22). "Oscar Handlin; historian led US immigration study". Boston.com. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
- ^ McFeely, William S. (July 22, 1984). "George Bancroft: a biography in the grand manner". The Boston Globe. pp. B11, B13. Retrieved March 30, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Reviews of George Bancroft:
- Leary, Lewis (15 July 1984). "Bancroft A Versatile Man". The Chapel Hill News. p. 28. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
- McFeely, William S. (July 22, 1984). "George Bancroft: a biography in the grand manner". The Boston Globe. pp. B11, B13. Retrieved March 30, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- Barry, Eugene P. (November 28, 1984). "Biography includes a slice of history". The Pittsburgh Press. Retrieved March 30, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- Peters, Margaret (September 23, 1984). "George Bancroft: The Intellectual as Democrat". The New York Times. Retrieved March 30, 2023 – via ProQuest.
- Schlesinger Jr., Arthur (September 10, 1984). "The education of a historian". The New Republic. Retrieved March 30, 2023 – via ProQuest.
- Jaillite, Embree (May 26, 1985). "Bancroft was scholar, man of the world". The Manhattan Mercury. pp. D1, D3. Retrieved March 30, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- Shade, William G. (1985). "Review of George Bancroft: The Intellectual as Democrat, by L. Handlin". Presidential Studies Quarterly. 15 (2): 427–28 – via JSTOR.
- Bass, Judy (September 30, 1984). "Man of many careers was remembered for his history of the U.S.". Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. P9. ISSN 0885-6613. ProQuest 1820061985.
- Ekirch, Arthur A. Jr. (April 1985). "Lilian Handlin. George Bancroft: The Intellectual as Democrat. (Cornelia and Michael Bessie.) New York: Harper and Row or Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Toronto. 1984. Pp. xvi, 415. $24.50". The American Historical Review. 90 (2): 488. doi:10.1086/ahr/90.2.488.
- ^ Barber, Benjamin R. (1986-09-21). "Independent Before Independence". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
- ^ Handlin, Oscar; Handlin, Lilian (1997-01-01). From the Outer World. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674326408.