Joseph Arthur Rothschild (April 5, 1931, at

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, Germany – January 30, 2000, at New York City) was an American professor of history and political science at Columbia University, specializing in Central European and Eastern European history. Rothschild was a member of the Academy of Political Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Phi Beta Kappa and American Professors for Peace in the Middle East (of which he was the national vice chairman in the years 1975–1990). From 1985 he was also a member of the Commission on International Affairs for the

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. He served on the editorial boards of the Middle East Review and the Political Science Quarterly. He received a

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In 1967. Rothschild graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor's and a master's degree. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford.

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* * Ira Katznelson, ''Joseph Rothschild'', PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Jun. 2001), pp. 344–345, Published by: American Political Science Association
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', The Record, Columbia University's official newspaper, Vol.25, No. 14, February 11, 2000

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* 1931 births 2000 deaths American political scientists 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers Columbia University faculty German emigrants to the United States American people of German-Jewish descent 20th-century American male writers Columbia College (New York) alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni 20th-century political scientists {{US-historian-stub