250 most-cited arts & humanities scholars
Jewish recipients of the 250 most-cited arts & humanities scholars documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 22% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.
17 documented recipients
Erwin Panofsky1892
Founder of modern iconology in art history
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
Harold Bloom1930
Literary critic of The Anxiety of Influence and The Western Canon
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
Ernst Gombrich1909
Author of The Story of Art, the world's most-read art history book
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
Yuri Lotman1922
Literary & drama critic
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Literary & Drama Critics
Flavius Josephus37
First-century Romano-Jewish historian whose works are key sources for the era
Source: Historical record
Erich Auerbach1892
Author of Mimesis, the foundational work of comparative literature
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
Meyer Abrams1912
Literary critic (The Mirror and the Lamp); founding editor of the Norton Anthology
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
Stanley Fish1938
Literary theorist of reader-response criticism
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
Lionel Trilling1905
Preeminent American literary critic of the mid-20th century
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
Eric Hobsbawm1917
Historian of the Age of Revolution, Capital, Empire and Extremes
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
Richard Ellmann1918
Definitive biographer of Joyce, Wilde and Yeats
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
Geoffrey Hartman1929
Yale literary theorist; co-founded the first Holocaust video-testimony archive
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
Jean Starobinski1920
Swiss historian of ideas (Rousseau, melancholy)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
E. D. Hirsch Jr.1928
Literary theorist; author of Cultural Literacy
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
Richard Hofstadter1916
Two-time Pulitzer-winning historian of American political culture
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
Irving Howe1920
Critic and historian of Jewish New York (World of Our Fathers)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
Harry Levin1912
Harvard comparatist who defined the study of modernism
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities