Joel Carmichael (December 31, 1915 – January 27, 2006) was an American historian, magazine editor, and translator.
Born Joel Lipsky on December 31, 1915, in New York City, Carmichael was the youngest son of Charlotte Schacht and Louis Lipsky, a founder of the American Zionist movement, President of the Zionist Organization of America.
There he began learning Arabic before returning to New York and attending Columbia University.
[2] His first book, a translation of a memoir of the Russian Revolution, helped Carmichael land a contract with Oxford University Press.
Carmichael was married twice: first to the journalist Mary Carr Thomas, then to sculptor Elizabeth de Cuevas in 1960.