Gertrude Himmelfarb, known as Bea Kristol, was an American historian.
15 Facts About Gertrude Himmelfarb
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Gertrude Himmelfarb was a leader of conservative interpretations of history and historiography.
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Gertrude Himmelfarb wrote extensively on intellectual history, with a focus on Great Britain and the Victorian era, as well as on contemporary society and culture.
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Gertrude Himmelfarb received her undergraduate degree from Brooklyn College in 1942 and her doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1950.
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Gertrude Himmelfarb later went on to study at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
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Gertrude Himmelfarb was long involved in Jewish conservative intellectual circles.
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Gertrude Himmelfarb served on the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress, the Council of Academic Advisors of the American Enterprise Institute, and the Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Gertrude Himmelfarb was a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Philosophical Society.
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Gertrude Himmelfarb died from heart failure at her home in Washington on December 30,2019, at the age of 97.
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Gertrude Himmelfarb long nurtured the neoconservative movement in US politics and intellectual life; her husband, Irving Kristol, helped found the movement.
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Gertrude Himmelfarb was a leading defender of traditional historical methods and practices.
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Gertrude Himmelfarb's book, The New History and the Old, is a critique of the varieties of "new history" that have sought to displace the old.
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Gertrude Himmelfarb maintained that Taylor was wrong to treat Adolf Hitler as a "normal" German leader playing by the traditional rules of diplomacy in The Origins of the Second World War, instead of being a "world-historical" figure such as Napoleon.
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Gertrude Himmelfarb was best known as a historian of Victorian England.
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Gertrude Himmelfarb argued "for the reintroduction of traditional values such as shame, responsibility, chastity, and self-reliance, into American political life and policy-making".