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Both Disraeli and Nixon were rather elusive figures in their native land-the one a Sephardic Jew who, as Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb puts it, "created himself in the likeness of an anti-Semitic cartoon," though he became an Anglican; the other a man who often seemed shallow and without strong roots. Both made their contemporaries uneasy for reasons that could not always be spelled out. Each in his time was underestimated by others, Disraeli because of his rakish dilettantism, Nixon because of his bland ordinariness. Both were dismissed as opportunists; few perceived the fire within. Neither of them ever gave...
...much birth control could be a disaster for Jews, argue Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz and Contributing Editor Milton Himmelfarb in the magazine's April issue. Given the low level of Jewish fertility, Podhoretz warns that Jews who advocate Z.P.G. are pushing for ethnic "suicide." Would even the devil, he asks, "have ever dreamed that so many would come to sterilize their very own selves in the name of a greater sense of responsibility to the future, and a greater reverence for life...
VICTORIAN MINDS, by Gertrude Himmelfarb. An examination of mighty mentalities and mortal foolishness, by a first-rate intellectual historian in search of the sources of 20th century confusions...
VICTORIAN MINDS, by Gertrude Himmelfarb. A first-rate historian culls the lifework of nine not-so-long-ago thinkers in search of the roots of some of the modern world's more piquant follies...
...State College, where Fiedler used to teach English, he gathers a handful of Jewish faculty members who have become more American than ham on rye and throws the tragic mysteries of Yom Kippur at them. They don talliths (prayer shawls) over their tweeds and attend the services of Louis Himmelfarb, dying unassimilated of cancer in a Catholic hospital. The old Jew scandalizes their skeptical liberalism by insisting on removal to the bathroom of a crucifix that hangs on the wall. Later, a man who had refused to make one of the minyan (sacramental quorum) jeeringly sells his "chance...