J. C. Hurewitz
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Jacob Coleman Hurewitz (November 11, 1914 – May 16, 2008) was an American political scientist Hurewitz graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1936, then did his graduate work at Columbia, making what was then an unusual decision to concentrate on the Middle East. He worked for the Near East section of the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, then worked successively at the State Department, as a political adviser on Palestine to the President’s cabinet and for the United Nations secretariat. Professor Hurewitz began studying Middle Eastern politics in 1950, before the field had emerged as an academic discipline. From 1970 until 1984, Professor Hurewitz was director of the Columbia university's Middle East Institute, when he retired. In 1972, Hurewitz establ
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J. C. Hurewitz
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Jacob Coleman Hurewitz
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Jacob Coleman Hurewitz
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Hartford, Connecticut, US
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*Ford Foundation overseas travel grant
*Guggenheim fellowship
*Rockefeller Foundation grant
*American Philosophical Society grant
*D.Litt., Trinity College, 1962
*Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences fellowship
*Council on Foreign Relations fellowship
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*Trinity College, Hartford
*Columbia University
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*Diplomacy in the Near and Middle East
*The Middle East and North Africa in World Politics
*The Struggle for Palestine
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Middle East scholar
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Miriam Freund
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Jacob Coleman Hurewitz (November 11, 1914 – May 16, 2008) was an American political scientist Hurewitz graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1936, then did his graduate work at Columbia, making what was then an unusual decision to concentrate on the Middle East. He worked for the Near East section of the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, then worked successively at the State Department, as a political adviser on Palestine to the President’s cabinet and for the United Nations secretariat. Professor Hurewitz began studying Middle Eastern politics in 1950, before the field had emerged as an academic discipline. From 1970 until 1984, Professor Hurewitz was director of the Columbia university's Middle East Institute, when he retired. In 1972, Hurewitz established the Columbia University Seminar on the Middle East, which he continued to chair until he was nearly 90. His publications influenced many other historians. For example, Wm. Roger Louis wrote in his book "The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945–1951" (Clarendon, 1984) that "my views on Arab nationalism and Zionism, and on the United States and the Middle East, have been influenced by the sensitive and dead-on-the-mark observations of J. C. Hurewitz." Hurewitz, died on May 16, 2008, of pneumonia. aged 93. The Hoover Institution Archives hold fourteen boxes of his papers.
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*U.S. Department of State
*United Nations Secretariat
*Columbia University
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