Gertrude Himmelfarb

Gertrude Himmelfarb, professor emeritus at the Graduate School of the City of New York, is a distinguished intellectual and cultural historian. Her most recent books are The People of the Book: Philosemitism in England, The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot, The Moral Imagination: From Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling, and The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments.