Lilian Handlin

Lilian Handlin, née Bombach, is an American historian. She studied at Queens College in New York City and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is formerly a professor of history at Hebrew University.

Life Lilian Bombach was born to Edith Schneeweiss and Leon Bombach. She completed a B.A. from Queens College, City University of New York. Bombach earned a M.A. from Brown University. Yehoshua Arieli was Bombach's doctoral advisor. Handlin and her husband co-published a biography of President Abraham Lincoln (1980) and surveys of American history including the four-volume Liberty in America: 1600 to the Present.

She was married to Oscar Handlin from 1977 until his death in 2011.

Selected bibliography Authored George Bancroft: The Intellectual as Democrat (Harper and Row, 1984)

Co-authored with Oscar Handlin Abraham Lincoln and the Union (Plunkett Lake Press, 1980) A Restless People: Americans in Rebellion, 1770–1787 (Anchor Press, 1982) Liberty and Power: 1600–1760: Volume One of Liberty in America: 1600 to the Present (Harper & Row, 1986) Liberty in Expansion, 1760–1850: Volume Two of Liberty in America: 1600 to the Present (William A. Thomas Braille Bookstore, 1993) From the Outer World (1997)