Lionel Edmond Kochan (20 August 1922 – 25 September 2005) was a British historian, journalist and publisher.
[1] His first academic post was as a lecturer in European history at the University of Edinburgh from 1959 to 1964.
[2] He then moved to the University of East Anglia, where he was Reader in European History from 1965 to 1969.
[2] He was Bearsted Reader in Jewish History at University of Warwick from 1969 until his retirement in 1987.
[2] His wife Miriam Kochan (c.1935-2023) was a writer and translator and she popularised the ceremony of batmitzvah for girls aged 12 in Oxford.