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Dec 31, 2019 · Gertrude Himmelfarb argued that a great deal is lost when a society stops aiming for civic virtue and is content to aim merely for civility. By David Brooks. December 31, 2019. Gertrude Himmelfarb ...
Gertrude Himmelfarb (August 8, 1922 – December 30, 2019), [1] also known as Bea Kristol, was an American historian. She was a leader of conservative interpretations of history and historiography. She wrote extensively on intellectual history, with a focus on Great Britain and the Victorian era, as well as on contemporary society and culture.
- August 8, 1922, New York City, New York, U.S.
- Milton Himmelfarb (brother)
- 2, including Bill
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Gertrude Himmelfarb (1922-2019) was a distinguished author and social critic who specialized in the intellectual history of the Victorian era. Her sixteen books—published between the ages of 30 and 95—ranged in genre from biography to historiography to essay to polemic. Among her many subjects were Charles Darwin, John Stuart Mill, Edmund ...
Jan 13, 2020 · NEH Chairman Lynne V. Cheney talks with historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, the 1991 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities, about the cultural and historical legacy of Victorian England. Himmelfarb is professor emeritus of history at the City University of New York and the author of eight books, among them The Idea of Poverty, The New History and the ...
Gertrude Himmelfarb was born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 8, 1922, the daughter of Bertha and Max Himmelfarb, a manufacturer. She graduated from New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn in 1939 and attended Brooklyn College, studying history and philosophy. She graduated from Brooklyn College in 1942 and in the same year married Irving Kristol ...
Jun 23, 2021 · Gertrude Himmefarb (1922-2019) was an American historian and public intellectual who published more than fifteen books mostly dedicated to nineteenth-century British intellectual life. She made significant contributions to the intellectual foundation of the neoconservative movement, arguing that social policy should follow the Victorian example of deep moralism.
Dec 31, 2019 · Gertrude Himmelfarb, who died at 97 last night, made this her central concern. She was a physician for the national soul. Himmelfarb was born in 1922 and grew up with her parents and brother in a one-bedroom apartment in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Her parents immigrated from Russia and spoke Yiddish at home. Her father cut glass and sold engraved ...
