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Anson Rabinbach (1945-2025) Scholar, historian. Anson Rabinbach was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in Rome, Italy.

Full Name

Anson Gilbert Rabinbach

Locations

BronxNassauNew York

Author's Timeline


1945

Birth

Bronx County: Anson Gilbert Rabinbach was born in the Bronx, New York, on June 2, 1945.

1960s

Other Life Event

As a youth, Mr. Rabinbach spent summers working at resorts in the Catskill Mountains area.

1967

Other Life Event

Nassau County: Mr. Rabinbach received a bachelor’s degree from Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, in 1967.

1983

Literary Work

The Crisis of Austrian Socialism: From Red Vienna to Civil War, 1927-1934
The University of Chicago Press
0226701212 / 978-0226701219
Nonfiction.

1984-1995

Other Life Event

New York County: Mr. Rabinbach taught at the Cooper Union in New York in the 1980s and 90s.

1990

Literary Work

The Human Motor: Energy, fatigue and the Origins of Modernity
Basic Books
0465031307 / 978-0465031306
Nonfiction.

1997

Literary Work

In the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals Between Apocalypse and Enlightenment
University of California Press
0520207440 / 978-0520207448
Nonfiction.

2007

Literary Work

Nazi Germany and The Humanities
Oneworld Publications
1851684689 / 978-1851684687
Nonfiction co-edited with Wolfgang Bialas.

2013

Literary Work

The Third Reich Sourcebook
University of California Press
0520208676 / 978-0520208674
Nonfiction edited by Mr. Rabinbach and Sander Gilman.

2018

Literary Work

The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor
New York: Fordham University Press
0823278565 / 978-0823278565
Nonfiction.

2025

Death

Anson Rabinbach died in a hospital in Rome, Italy, on February 2, 2025.

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