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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.

Life

Lilian Bombach was born to Edith Schneeweiss and Leon Bombach. She completed a B.A. from Queens College, City University of New York. Bombach earned a M.A. from Brown University. She completed a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her 1975 dissertation, about American historian and diplomat George Bancroft, was titled George Bancroft, Jacksonian reformer. Yehoshua Arieli was Bombach's doctoral advisor.

From 1970 to 1977, Handlin was an associate professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She married historian Oscar Handlin in 1977. In 1984, Handlin published a biography of George Bancroft. 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.

Selected bibliography

Authored

• George Bancroft: The Intellectual as Democrat (Harper and Row, 1984)

Co-authored with Oscar Handlin

• 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)
• 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)

References

1. "Bombach obituary". The Boston Globe. 2001-02-02. p. 28. Retrieved 2023-03-31 – via Newspaper.com.
2. ^ "Alumni Historians". QC History Department. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
3. ^ "Plunkett Lake Press". plunkettlakepress.com. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
4. ^ Bombach, Lilian (1975). George Bancroft, Jacksonian reformer (Ph.D. thesis). Hebrew University of Jerusalem. OCLC 42611432.
5. ^ Feeney, Mark (2011-09-22). "Oscar Handlin; historian led US immigration study". Boston.com. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Barber, Benjamin R. (1986-09-21). "Independent Before Independence". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
9. Handlin, Oscar; Handlin, Lilian (1997-01-01). From the Outer World. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674326408.

• Living people
• Queens College, City University of New York alumni
• Brown University alumni
• Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
• Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• 20th-century American historians
• 21st-century American historians
• American women historians
• Historians of the United States
• Handlin family