Person Detail: Gertrude Himmelfarb

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General Information:
Full Name: Gertrude Himmelfarb
Biography: (1922-2019) Historian, author. Gertrude Himmelfarb was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Washington, District of Columbia.
Author's Timeline:
1922		Kings County Gertrude Himmelfarb was born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 8, 1922.
2019		(Unknown) County Gertrude Himmelfarb died at her home in Washington, District of Columbia, on December 30, 2019.
1942		Kings County Ms. Himmelfarb studied at Brooklyn College majoring in history, economics, and philosophy.
1952		(Unknown) County Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience (Pub: Routledge & K. Paul ISBN: ) Nonfiction.
1959		(Unknown) County Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution (Pub: Chatto and Windus ISBN: ) Nonfiction.
1968		(Unknown) County Victorian Minds Collection of essays. This book was nominated for a National Book Award.
1987		(Unknown) County The New History and the Old (Pub: Belknap Press ISBN: 0674615808 ISBN-13: 978-0674615809) Collection of essays.
1994		(Unknown) County On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society (Pub: Knopf ISBN: 0679428267 ISBN-13: 978-0679428268) Nonfiction.
2009		(Unknown) County The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot (Pub: Encounter Books ISBN: 1594032513 ISBN-13: 978-1594032516) Nonfiction.
2011		(Unknown) County The People of the Book: Philosemitism in England, From Cromwell to Churchill (Pub: Encounter Books ISBN: 1594035709 ISBN-13: 978-1594035708) History.
2017		(Unknown) County Past and Present: The Challenges of Modernity, From the Pre-Victorians to the Postmodernists (Pub: Encounter Books ISBN: 1594039259 ISBN-13: 978-1594039256) Nonfiction.
1939		New York County Ms. Himmelfarb studied Judaic literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Manhattan, New York, from 1939 until 1942.
2006		(Unknown) County The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling (Pub: Ivan R. Dee ISBN: ) Nonfiction.
1999		(Unknown) County One Nation, Two Cultures Nonfiction.
?		Kings County Ms. Himmelfarb graduated from New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn, New York.