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(Hardback)

By: Gertrude Himmelfarb

ISBN: 9781594039256
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Encounter Books,USA
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(Hardback)

By: Gertrude Himmelfarb

ISBN: 9781594035708
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: Encounter Books,USA
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The history of Judaism has for too long been dominated by the theme of anti-Semitism, reducing Judaism to the recurrent saga of persecution and the struggle for survival. This book reaffirms Jews in their own faith and aspirations.


(Paperback)

By: Gertrude Himmelfarb

ISBN: 9780679759232
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1995
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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One of America's foremost historians discusses the intellectual arrogance and spiritual impoverishment at the heart of structuralism and shows how they have led to a trivializing of the Holocaust.


(Paperback)

By: Gertrude Himmelfarb

ISBN: 9780679741732
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1992
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Examines the work and thought of reformers, social critics, and philanthropists in late-nineteenth-century England to provide insights into how poverty was regarded.


(Paperback)

By: Gertrude Himmelfarb

ISBN: 9781845951412
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Contrasting the Enlightenments in the three nations, this book demonstrates the primacy and wisdom of the British, exemplified in such thinkers as Adam Smith, David Hume, and Edmund Burke, as well as the enduring contributions of the American Founders.


(Hardback)

By: Gertrude Himmelfarb

ISBN: 9781594032516
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Encounter Books,USA
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Examines why a woman who was firmly labeled an unbeliever would take up the cause of Judaism and its promise of nationhood and statehood.


(Hardback)

By: Gertrude Himmelfarb

ISBN: 9781594031540
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2007
Publisher: Encounter Books,USA
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Milton Himmelfarb, perhaps best known for his quip that Jews earned like Episcopalians but voted like Puerto Ricans, was one of the most unfairly neglected essayists of his time. This book covers the essential core of his social, political, and theological essays.