Joseph Rothschild was an American Jewish professor of history and political science at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

, specializing in Central European and Eastern European history.

Joseph Rothschild a member of the Academy of Political Science

Academy of Political Science

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, the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

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, the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America

Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America

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, 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

American Jewish Congress

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He served on the editorial board

Editorial board

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s of the Middle East Review and the Political Science Quarterly

Political Science Quarterly

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Books

• Communist Party of Bulgaria (1959)
• Pilsudski's Coup D'État (1966)
• East Central Europe Between the Two World Wars (1974)
• Ethnopolitics: A Conceptual Framework (1979)
• Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War II (1994)