Remembering Milton Himmelfarb

A number of readers have asked for the full text of Edward Himmelfarb’s eulogy of his father, Milton Himmelfarb, that I excerpted here on Sunday. I mistakenly thought I had posted a link to the full text of the eulogy. I have accordingly copied the moving eulogy of his father by Edward Himmelfarb into the continuation of this post.

It’s sort of a clich

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