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Ariel Durant
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(File:Ariel and Will Durant.jpg|thumb|Ariel and Will Durant in the library of their home in Los Angeles, 1967)Ariel Durant was born Chaya Kaufman in Proskurov, Russian Empire (now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine), to Jewish parents Ethel Appel Kaufman and Joseph Kaufman. Ariel later went by Ida.NEWS,weblink Durants Made History in Hollywood Hills Home, Kanner, Diane, May 24, 1987, Los Angeles Times, May 29, 2020, 0458-3035, The family emigrated in 1900, living for several months in London 1900â01 en route to the United States, where they arrived in 1901. She had three older sisters, Sarah, Mary, and Flora, and three older brothers, Harry, Maurice, and Michael. Flora became Ariel's companion and sometime assistant, and moved with the Durants to California.She met her future husband when she was a student at Ferrer Modern School in New York City. He was then a teacher at the school, but resigned his post to marry Ariel. At the time of the wedding, on October 31, 1913, Ariel was 15 and Will Durant was nearly 28 years old.{{Citation | contribution = Durant, Ariel | title = Jewish Women in America | editor1-first = E Paula | editor1-last = Hyman | editor2-first = Deborah Dash | editor2-last = Moore | publisher = Taylor & Francis | year = 1997 | page = 343}}. The wedding took place at New York City Hall, to which she roller-skated from her family's home in Harlem. The couple had one daughter, Ethel Benvenuta Durant (1919â1986) and adopted a son, Louis Richard "Lipschultz" Durant (1917â2008) who was the son of Ariel's sister Flora Kaufman Lipschultz and her former husband, Joseph Bernard Lipschultz (divorced 1928).{{citation needed|date=May 2023}} Louis had lived in Will and Ariel's home with his mother, Flora, when he was quite young (1920 Census).Ariel Durant legally changed her first name to Ariel after the character from Shakespeare's The Tempest, which was the nickname her husband gave her because he said she was "strong and brave as a boy, and as swift and mischievous as an elf".The Durants were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1968 for Rousseau and Revolution, the tenth volume of The Story of Civilization. In 1977 they were presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Gerald Ford, and Ariel was named "Woman of the Year" by the city of Los Angeles. The Durants received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1976.WEB, Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org, American Academy of Achievement,weblink The Durants wrote a 420-page joint autobiography, published by Simon & Schuster in 1978 (A Dual Autobiography; later {{ISBN|0-671-23078-6}}).The Durants died within two weeks of each other in 1981 and are buried at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Ariel told Ethel's daughter, Monica Mehill, that it was their differences that made them grow.References
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- "Will Durant and Ariel Durant" in Encyclopædia Britannica
- Ariel Durant's books on Amazon
- Writer Hero: ARIEL DURANT
- {{LCAuth|n50029769|Ariel Durant|9|}}
- {{Find a Grave|23139}}
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