Jonathan Schneer (born August 9, 1948) is an American historian of modern Britain whose work ranges over labor, political, social, cultural, and diplomatic subjects.
His father, Richard Schneer (1919–2004), was a dentist with a practice in New York City, who retired to Berkshire County in northwestern Massachusetts, where he devoted himself to progressive causes.
[3] His mother, Sophie Solomonoff Schneer (1920–2009), was a modern dancer in New York City, who became a choreographer and school teacher in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
[5] Schneer spent his first twelve years in New York City, where he attended the Little Red School House.
They have two sons, Benjamin Hayman Schneer, an Assistant Professor of American Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School[6] who is married to the journalist and writer Elizabeth Segran,[7] and Seth Hayman Schneer, an attorney in Washington, D.C., who specializes in health law, and whose wife, Jihyun Lee, is a South Korean diplomat.
[15] His book, The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin’s Russia, was shortlisted for the 2021 Pushkin House Literary Prize.