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The Jewish Question and the Quarrel between Religion and Reason
The American exception.
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Gertrude Himmelfarb (1922-2019) wrote extensively on intellectual and cultural history, with a focus on Victorian England. Her recent books include The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot and The People of the Book: Philo-Semitism in England from Cromwell to Churchill.
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Benjamin Disraeli Deserves an Honorable Place among the Notable Figures of Jewish History
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Albert Einstein, Zionism, and Pacifism
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Matthew Arnold’s Hebraism: An Antidote to Today’s Anarchy
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Why Charles Darwin Disowned Social Darwinism
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Irving Kristol, Born Jewish
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Before Pastor Hagee, There Was Lord Shaftesbury
By Gertrude HimmelfarbThe following comments are a historical footnote to Robert Nicholson’s splendid essay, “ Evangelicals and Israel .” Addressing himself to American Jews, he rebukes them for being distrustful of the m...
