Randolph L. Braham, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Randolph L. Braham

American historian and political scientist

Date of Birth: 20-Dec-1922

Place of Birth: Bucharest

Date of Death: 25-Nov-2018

Profession: historian, university teacher

Nationality: Hungary, United States, Romania

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Randolph Lewis Braham (December 20, 1922 – November 25, 2018) was an American historian and political scientist, born in Romania, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
A specialist in comparative politics and the Holocaust, he was a founding board member of the academic committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Washington, D.C., and founded The Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies at the Graduate Center in 1979.Braham's career was spent teaching comparative politics and Soviet studies at The City College of New York, where he chaired the political science department.
He was the author or editor of over 60 books, authored or co-authored chapters in 50 others, and published a large number of scholarly articles.
The vast majority of his published work deals with the Holocaust in Hungary.
He became best known for his two-volume work The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary, first published in 1981.