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Durant, Ariel

LC control no.n 50029769
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingDurant, Ariel
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Variant(s)Kaufman, Chaya
Kaufman, Ida
Durant, Will, Mrs.
Dūrānt, Arīʹyal
Dūrānt, Arīʹyil
دورانت، ارى‌يل
Associated countryUkraine United States
Birth date1898
Death date1981-10-25
Place of birthProskurov (Ukraine)
Place of deathLos Angeles (Calif.)
Profession or occupationHistorians Authors
Special noteNon-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found inNUCMC data from Univ. of Washington Lib. for Durant Study Club. Records, 1946-1986 (Durant, Ariel)
Durant, W. Dual Autobiography, 1977: t.p., etc. (Durant, Ariel; born Chaya Kaufman in Proskurov, Russia, in 1898; emigrated to U.S. with parents in 1901 where her name became Ida Kaufman; m. Will Durant in 1913; legally changed her name to Ariel Durant, adopting her husband's nickname for her)
NY Times obit., 10-28-1981 (Durant, Ariel; dead at age 83)
Āghāz-i ʻAṣr-i khirad, 1969: t.p. (ارى‌يل دورانت = Arīʹyil Dūrānt) t.p. verso (Ariel Durant [in rom.])
Scanlon, Jennifer. American women historians, 1700s-1990s, 1996: page 63 (Born Chaya Kaufman in Proskurov (now Khmelnitski), Russia in 1898. Co-authored with her husband Will Durant the multi-volume Story of Civilization. Died in Los Angeles, California on October 25, 1981.)
Associated languageeng