Jonathan Sperber (born 26 December 1952) is an American academic and historian who is a professor emeritus at the University of Missouri and author of modern European History.
He attended the Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn.
Sperber has written a number of books on the political, social and religious history of nineteenth-century Europe.
His 2013 book Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life was critically well-reviewed, which the New York Times described as an "absorbing, meticulously researched biography" in its Editors Choice Book Review.
[3] Sperber is married to Nancy Lynn Katzman with one son, Adam Philip.