Jonathan Frankel (July 15, 1935, in London – May 7, 2008, in Jerusalem) was a historian and writer.
Frankel contributed to the historiography of East European Jewish life with his book Prophecy and Politics: Socialism, Nationalism, and the Russian Jews, 1862–1917 (1982), which became a classic at the moment of its publication.
This work approached Jewish history of the nineteenth and early twentieth century from a completely new perspective.
He is credited with having "helped establish the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies" at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
[4] Frankel married Edith Rogovin in 1963; their marriage resulted in two daughters.