Jacob Coleman Hurewitz

Background

Hurewitz, Jacob Coleman was born on November 11, 1914 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Isaac S. and Ida (Aronson) Hurewitz.

Education

Bachelor, Trinity College, Hartford, 1936; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1937; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1950; Doctor of Letters, Trinity College, 1962; Doctor of Humane Letters, Gratz College, 1990.

Career

Senior political analyst, Office of Strategic Services, 1943-1945; Senior political analyst, Department State, 1945-1946; political advisory, United States Cabinet Committee on Palestine, 1946; political affairs officer, United Nations Secretariat, 1949-1950; professor, Middle East political history Dropsie College, Philadelphia, 1949-1956; member of faculty, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, School International Affairs, Columbia University, New York City, 1950-1984; professor government, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, School International Affairs, Columbia University, 1958-1984; professor emeritus, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, School International Affairs, Columbia University, since 1985; director, Middle East Institute, 1971-1984. Visiting professor political science Johns Hopkins School Advanced International Studies,1956, Cornell Univercity, 1970. Consultant Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1954, Rand Corporation, 1962-1971, American Council Learned Socs., 1963-1964, Department State, 1966-1971, Department Defense, 1970-1974, Stanford Research Institute, 1973-1976, ABC News, 1979.

Founder, chairman University Seminar on the Middle East, Columbia University, since 1971. Board research consultant Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia, 1972-1990, Institute Foreign Policy Analysis, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1976-1990. Resident fellow Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, 1962-1963, Council on Foreign Relations, New York City, 1965-1966.

Organizer, director international conferences on Middle East. Participant Dartmouth American-Soviet Conference XII, 1979.

Achievements

• Jacob Coleman Hurewitz has been listed as a notable consultant, educator, author by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Diplomacy In The Near And Middle East, V2: A Documentary Record, 1914-1956

    (In Two Volumes. Volume 1, A Documentary Record, 1535-1914...)

  • Diplomacy In The Near And Middle East, V2: A Documentary Record, 1914-1956

    (In Two Volumes. Volume 1, A Documentary Record, 1535-1914...)

  • Diplomacy in the Near and Middle East, A Documentary Record: 1914-1956, Volume II
  • The Struggle for Palestine
  • Oil, the Arab-Israel dispute, and the industrial world: Horizons of crisis (Westview special studies on the Middle East)
  • Diplomacy in the Near and Middle East, Vol. II a Documentary Record 1914-1956
  • Middle East Politics: The Military Dimension
  • The Struggle for Palestine by J. C. Hurewitz (2008-11-07)
  • Diplomacy in the Near and Middle East, V2: A Documentary Record, 1914-1956 by J. C. Hurewitz (1-Oct-2011) Paperback
  • Diplomacy in the Near and Middle East a Documentary Record : 1535 - 1914 Volume 1 & 2
  • Diplomacy in the Near and Middle East A Documentary Record: Volume 1 1535 - 1914; Volume 2 1914 - 1956

Membership

Member advisory panel on technical transfer to Middle East, Congress Office of Technology Assessment, 1982-1984. Served with United States Army, 1942-1943. Fellow Middle East Studies Association (founding fellow).

Member American History Association, Middle East Institute Washington (governor 1964-1981), American Political Science Association, Academy Political Science, Council Foreign Relations, American Institute Iranian Studies (founding member, 1st vice president 1968-1969), International Institute Strategic Studies, Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society (founding member), American Research Center in Egypt (governor), Authors Guild, Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Married Miriam Freund, March 29, 1946. Children: Barbara Jean, Ruth Anne.

Father:

Isaac S. Hurewitz

Mother:

Ida (Aronson) Hurewitz

Spouse:

Miriam Freund

child:

Ruth Anne Hurewitz

child:

Barbara Jean Hurewitz