Commentary In American Life

Index

Index Abel, Lionel: and Jewish Americanism, 32 anticommunism, 4; importance of Commentary in supporting, 5–6; as major issue in Abrams, Charles: on race, 78 Abrams, Elliott: and neoconservative suc- Commentary, 45–7; of Podhoretz, 134–9, 140, 142, 144–50; as bond between Comcesses , 176, 178; as exponent of neoconservative foreign policy, 182, 184 mentary and conservatives, 157–8 Arendt, Hannah, 18; on Zionism, 48, 56; Adams, James Ring: on race, 86–7 affirmative action: rejected by neoconserva- Podhoretz criticizes Eichmann coverage of, 63 tives, 167, 179 African Americans: relationship of, with Auletta, Ken: on race, 94 Avukah: as socialist, 39; opposes Jewish Jews, 84, 85, 95, 110–15 Aldridge, John W.: on American literature, state, 40 116–17, 118 Aleichem, Sholem, 58 Baldwin, James: on relationship of African Americans and Jews, 110–12, 113–14 Alter, Robert: and Menorah Journal, 29; and Jewish literature, 66–7 Banfield, Edward, 97; critique of liberal reform , 75 American Council for Judaism: as antiZionist , 12 Beame, Abe: and economic decline of New York, 89–90 American Enterprise Institute: as home to neoconservatives, 178 Bell, Daniel: on Cohen, 30; Glazer consults , 38–9; and Judaism at Commentary, American Jewish Committee (AJC): and creation of intellectual community, 9–10; 49 Bellow, Saul, 3; and redefinition of Jewishhistory of, 10–12; as non-Zionist, 11, 45; anticommunism of, 22–3; relationship ness, 34; and Judaism, 49 Bennett, William, 162 with Commentary, 18–29, 55. American Jewish Congress, 11 Berman, Paul: and leftist foreign policy, 189 Anderson, Jervis: on multiculturalism, 83 Anti-Defamation League, 11; condemns re- Bernstein, Richard: and rejection of political correctness, 6–7 ligious Right, 168 anti-Semitism: AJC fight against, 11; im- Bialik, Chaim Nahman, 58 Blaustein, Jacob: and post-war AJC, 12; pact on Jewish intellectuals, 12–14; in higher education, 29–30; social sciences and Rosenfeld controversy, 26, 27 Bloom, Alexander: on Commentary, 4 as aid to understanding, 43; discussed in Commentary, 42, 43–4 62–3; in literature, Boot, Max: and neoconservative successes, 177, 178 58–9, 100, 101–3; of Right, 164–5; of Left, 154; of African Americans, 152; Borkenau, Franz: and anticommunism in Commentary, 46 compared to anti-Americanism, 148–50 221 222 Index Bradford, M. E.: and paleo/neoconservative Committee on the Present Danger: background , 140–1; membership, 141–2; on conflicts, 162–3 Brookings Institution, 178 communist threat, 142–4 Communism: and Soviet Jews, 64. See also Brooks, David, 7; and neoconservative successes , 177, 178; on role of federal gov- anticommunism Contemporary Jewish Record (CJR), 38; on ernment, 180–1 Bruce-Biggs, B.: on Robert Moses, 89 Jewish identity, 17–18; superseded by Commentary, 19; death of Oko, 40; Glazer Brustein, Robert, 62 Buchanan, Patrick: as anti-Semitic, 165; works for, 40–1; arrival of Cohen, 41–2 Cooney, Terry, 14 and paleo/neoconservative conflicts, 187, 188 Corbett, Percy, 42 Coser, Lewis A.: and Dissent, 36–7; critiBuckley , William F. Jr.: and Commentary’s shift to right, 153–4; and anti-Semitism cizes Commentary’s shift to right, 155 Costikyan, Edward: on New York politics, on Right, 165, 166 Burnham, James: on neoconservatism, 153, 96 157–8, 162, 166 Danzig, David: on urban reform, 87, 88, 89; on liberalism, 98 Caro, Robert: on Robert Moses, 89–90 Carter, Jimmy: Cold War policy of, 137–8, Dawidowicz, Lucy: and relationship of AJC to Commentary, 22 140 Chazen, Leonard: on racial politics of Decter, Midge, 161, 176; on Jewish identity , 17; on intellectual community, 29; school reform, 83–4 Christian Right: Commentary defends, 167–9 on poverty and race, 91–2; on Left’s hatred for America, 179 civil liberties, 37 Clark, Kenneth, 88 Dennison, George: on black radical literature , 82–3 Cleaver, Eldridge: on race, 83 Cohen, David: on racial politics of school Dickerstein, Morris, 71 Dinkins, David: as mayor of New York, 77, reform, 84–5 Cohen, Elliot E., 152; on Commentary and 94–6 Dinnerstein, Leonard: on anti-Semitism, Partisan Review, 2; editorial philosophy of, 2, 19, 23, 24–5; and Jewish intellectu- 29 Draper, Theodore, 88 als, 18; and Rosenfeld controversy, 26–7; background of, 28–31; as advocate of Drew, Elizabeth: on neoconservative foreign policy, 186 Jewish Americanism, 30–2, 54; achievements , 37; becomes Commentary editor, Dubnow, Shimon: on Zionism, 56 Dubofsky, Melvin, 88 41–2 Cold War: and anti-Americanism, 137. See also anticommunism education: racial politics and school reform, 79–81, 83–5 Commentary: stresses Americanism of Jews, 1–3, 9–10, 30–2...