Gertrude Himmelfarb

Gertrude Himmelfarb ( born August 8, 1922 in New York City ) is an American historian.

Life

Himmelfarb comes from a Jewish- Russian immigrant family. She attended New Utrecht High School in New York. She then studied history, journalism and Jewish literature at Brooklyn College, at the University of Chicago, at the Jewish Theological Seminary and at Girton College.

After completing her Ph.D. she was a professor at the City University of New York. From 1982 to 1988 she was owned by the Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1995-1996 the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and 1984-2008 the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress at. Himmelfarb since 1987, consultant to the American Enterprise Institute and author of several books.

Himmelfarb is a member of the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Historical Society and the Society of American Historians.

She was married to the neoconservative thinker Irving Kristol and had with him two children, including columnist William Kristol. Her brother was the writer Milton Himmelfarb.

Awards

Writings (selection )

  • Darwin and the Darwinian revolution. Doubleday, Garden City, 1959.
  • Marriage and morals among the Victorians: essays. Knopf, New York 1986.
  • The de - moralization of society: from Victorian virtues to modern values ​​. Knopf, New York 1995.
  • The Jewish odyssey of George Eliot. Encounter Books, New York, 2009.
Jewish Theological Seminary of America Girton College, Cambridge Orwell Award National Humanities Medal Integrated Authority File
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