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Mechal Sobel, historian of early American life and culture and African American history, died on March 24, 2021, at her home in Haifa, Israel.

She was professor emerita of history at the University of Haifa, where she taught from 1968 to 2006.

Born in 1933 in Brooklyn, New York, Sobel received her BA from Brooklyn College. After studying for her master’s at Columbia University, she completed her PhD at Boston University in 1968.

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In the same year, she immigrated to Israel with her family and taught in the University of Haifa history department, which remained her academic home for nearly 40 years. From 1980 until her retirement, Sobel directed the graduate program in American studies, and from 2001 to 2006, she served as director of the Center for the Study of the United States.

She was also elected president of the Israel Association of American Studies (1981–83). Sobel had a long-standing association with the Omohundro