Lionel Kochan

Lionel Edmond Kochan (20 August 1922 – 25 September 2005) was a British historian, who before coming to academe 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.

• 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 Image: A Jewish View (1997)
• The Making of Western Jewry, 1600–1819 (2004)