Lilian Handlin | |
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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 |
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 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]