Milton Himmelfarb

Milton Himmelfarb ( born October 21, 1918 in Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA, † January 4, 2006 in New York, NY) was an American writer.

Four decades worked Himmelfarb for the American Jewish Committee, whose research and information director he was. He moved several versions of the American Jewish Year Book and Journal Commentary issued.

1986 met U.S. President Ronald Reagan Himmelfarb at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council.

Himmelfarb received various honors: Visiting Professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, and a visiting lecturer at Yale College. In 1938 he received the BA, 1939, MS from City College of New York.

His sister, the history professor Gertrude Himmelfarb (* 1922) is that of the social scientist Irving Kristol 's widow.

Himmelfarb died in New York City and is survived by his wife, Judy, and seven children.

Publications

• The Jews of modernity, New York: Basic Books, 1973 ISBN 0465036740. .
• Jews and Gentiles, New York: Encounter Books, c2007. ISBN 1,594,031,541th

As editor

• Milton Himmelfarb; Victor Baras ( eds): Zero population growth - for splat, Westport: Greenwood Press, 1978 ISBN 0313200416. .