Miriam Louise Kochan (née Buchler; 5 October 1929 – 1 January 2018) was an English history writer and translator of French.
In 1970, she introduced the bat mitzvah class for girls who were aged 12 and over in the British orthodox Jewish community and taught at Carmel College, Oxfordshire.
[1][4] She was the translator of the books such as Greece by Jeanne Roux and Georges Roux in 1958, Gothic Cathedrals of France by Marcel Aubert in 1959, Maya Cities by Paul Rivet in 1960, The World of Archaeology by Marcel Brion in 1961, Carthage by Gilbert Picard in 1964, The Greek Adventure by Pierre Lévêque and Mekji by Paul Akamatsu in 1968.
Other translations Kochan carried out were Capitalism and Material Life by Fernand Braudel in 1972, the third volume of History of Anti-Semitism by Léon Poliakov in 1975, The Jewish Bankers and the Holy See by Poliakov in 1977,[3][5] The Norm of Truth by Pascal Engel in 1991 helped by the author, Anti-Semitism in France by Pierre Birnbaum in 1992, A Social History of France in the 19th Century by Christophe Charle in 1994 and Haim Nahun by Esther Benbassa in 1995.
[2][4] She also introduced children’s services, the synagogue magazine Menorah and a post bar/bat mitzvah class,[1] and had organisational roles with the B'nai B'rith and the Women's International Zionist Organization.