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Feb 20, 2013 · Himmelfarb says her essay isn’t meant to be a “proper history of English philosemitism,” but is rather “a historical essay highlighting crucial ideas and events in that history, from the readmission of the Jews to England in the seventeenth century…to the achievement of Jewish statehood in the twentieth.”
- Barry Bercier
- barry@assumption.edu
- 2013
Jews who find a steady diet of books about the antisemitism of England’s learned (and also not so learned) classes more unpleasant than exploratory surgery will find a welcome antidote in Gertrude Himmelfarb’s learned, scintillating, and (mostly) optimistic historical essay about the counter-tradition that she calls English “philosemitism.” Professor Himmelfarb has been writing, with ...
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Jan 5, 2021 · Jan. 5 2021. While primarily a historian of Victorian intellectual life, Gertrude Himmelfarb (1922-2019) was a prolific writer of impressive depth as well as breadth, writing on social and religious history, the ills of postmodernism, the European Enlightenment, the American critic Lionel Trilling, and—toward the end of her life— philo ...
Jun 23, 2021 · The People of the Book: Philosemitism in England, from Cromwell to Churchill. New York: Encounter Books, 2011. Past and Present: The Challenges of Modernity, from the pre-Victorians to the Postmodernists. New York: Encounter Books, 2017). SELECTED WORKS EDITED BY GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB . Lord Acton, Essays on Freedom and Power. Boston: Beacon ...
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
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 ...
Nov 8, 2011 · The history of philosemitism provides a corrective to that abysmal view, a reminder of the venerable religion and people that have been an inspiration for non-Jews as well as Jews.There is a poetic justice – or historic justice – in the fact that England, the first country to expel the Jews in medieval times, has produced the richest ...
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