Milton Himmelfarb

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Milton Himmelfarb (October 21, 1918 – January 4, 2006) was a noted sociographer of the American Jewish community.

He worked for four decades at the American Jewish Committee where he was director of information and research services. He edited various versions of the American Jewish Yearbook. He also was a contributing editor of Commentary, the monthly journal of opinion.

In 1986 President Ronald Reagan appointed Himmelfarb to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.

Himmelfarb held several academic posts: visiting professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and visiting lecturer at Yale College. He earned a BA in 1938 and MS in 1939 from City College of New York.

Himmelfarb coined the well-known and widely quoted aphorism on the Jewish community's political persuasions: "Jews earn like Episcopalians, and vote like Puerto Ricans."

His sister is the historian Professor Gertrude Himmelfarb.

He died in New York City.

[edit] Selected works authored, co-authored or edited by Himmelfarb

Jews and Gentiles (Encounter Books), 2007

American Jewish Year Book (Jewish Publication Society of America, various years)

The Jews of Modernity (Basic Books, 1973) (ISBN 0-465-03674-0)
Jews in Unsecular America: Essays (Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1987) (ISBN 0-8028-0206-0)
Zero Population Growth--For Whom? Differential Fertility and Minority Group Survival (Greenwood Press, 1978) (ISBN 0-313-20041-6)
Numerous magazine and journal articles