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Gertrude Himmelfarb (1922-2019) was an American historian and a leader of conservative interpretations of history and historiography. She wrote extensively on Victorian England, intellectual history, and contemporary society and culture, and received many awards and honors.
Dec 31, 2019 · Gertrude Himmelfarb, a historian of ideas who applied cool intelligence and elegant writing to making the case that Victorian-era morals should invigorate contemporary social...
Dec 31, 2019 · The Times of Israel reports on the life and legacy of Gertrude Himmelfarb, a historian of Victorian England and a neoconservative voice in the culture wars. She was the wife of Irving Kristol, the "godfather" of neoconservatism, and the mother of William Kristol, a prominent Republican pundit.
Dec 31, 2019 · Who captures the shifts in manners, values, and mores, how each era defines what is admirable and what is disgraceful? Gertrude Himmelfarb, who died at 97 last night, made this her central...
A celebrated historian of Victorian England, Himmelfarb was a highly regarded writer who mixed biography and intellectual history to trace the curvature of influential ideas and the lives of major figures of the period such as Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill, and Matthew Arnold.
Learn about the life and work of Gertrude Himmelfarb, a distinguished author and social critic who specialized in the intellectual history of the Victorian era. Explore her views on the role of reason, virtue, and religion in modernity, and her analysis of the Jewish experience in Europe.
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Jan 2, 2020 · Gertrude Himmelfarb, a historian who helped resuscitate the reputation of the Victorians and a public intellectual who shaped neoconservatism, died this week at the age of 97.
