Hannah Josephson, née Geffen (June 6, 1900 – October 29, 1976), was an American historian of the United States as well as a journalist and librarian.
Four years later, Josephson published The Golden Threads, a book on women who worked in the textile mills of Massachusetts between 1822 and 1850.
With her husband she wrote Al Smith, Hero of the Cities: A Political Portrait Drawing on the Papers of Frances Perkins in 1969 for which they were awarded the Van Wyck Brooks Award of the University of Bridgeport.
Josephson also translated several books including Louis Aragon’s The Century Was Young in 1941, Philippe Soupault’s Age of Assassins five years later, and Gabrielle Roy’s The Tin Flute in 1948.
[2] Agnes Whitfield, York University, leads a SSHRC funded project on Josephson, the American translator of Bonheur d’occasion.