Lewis Jacqueline Brownstein is a historian, author, and professor along with being the former Chair of the Political Science and International Relations Department at

SUNY New Paltz The State University of New York at New Paltz (SUNY New Paltz or New Paltz) is a public university in New Paltz, New York. It traces its origins to the New Paltz Classical School, a secondary institution founded in 1828 and reorganized as an ac ...

. His main speciality of expertise is on the region of the Middle East more specifically but not limited to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Lew Brownstein earned his Ph.D. from the School for Advanced International Studies at

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

in 1969. One of his biggest accomplishments besides his work published are the lectures he gives on a wide range of topics involving international affairs in various areas around the world. Lew Brownstein was born on October 1, 1938, in New York to Frances and Isidore Brownstein. Lew Brownstein is of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry through his Russian Jewish paternal grandfather Harry Brownstein.As of August 27, 2019.

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Living people Year of birth missing (living people) State University of New York at New Paltz faculty Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies alumni American historians Historians of the Middle East Jewish American historians 21st-century American Jews American Ashkenazi Jews American people of Russian-Jewish descent {{US-historian-stub