Joseph Rothschild, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joseph Rothschild

American academic

Date of Birth: 05-Apr-1931

Place of Birth: Fulda, Hesse, Germany

Date of Death: 30-Jan-2000

Profession: historian, political scientist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Joseph Arthur Rothschild (April 5, 1931 at Fulda, 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 American Jewish Congress. He served on the editorial boards of the Middle East Review and the Political Science Quarterly.