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The story of the changing Jewish relationship with America—from World War II to the neo-conservatives—as reflected in the surprising evolution of an uncommonly influential magazine
Former editor of Commentary, Balint introduces a guide of the magazine's evolution with a primary focus on Jewish history from WWI to the present, with parallel Commentary articles and writers providing crucial historical markers. The Holocaust gets extensive coverage, both through the eyes of its victims and of Commentary's editors and writers, complete with early critiques of the ignorance that created and fed the WWII machine. Balint ties the growth of the magazine to the influx of Jews to America following that war. As refuges built new communities, Commentary widened its focus from the Jewish religion, printing articles that expressed pride in Judaism and patriotism for America, making it acceptable for Jewish immigrants, who were ready to shed the past because of the extensive Nazi hatred, to embrace American culture while maintaining their Jewish identity and religion. Readers will appreciate this rare behind-the-scenes look into a prolific magazine that helped provide a positive outlet and shape a new community after an unthinkable atrocity.
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Michael Turnbull
reviewed Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right on July 11, 2013
Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right
'There has been some recent controversy over whether to describe neoconservatism as, in the main, a Jewish phenomenon. It was fueled by some neoconservatives who charged that critics of the Iraq War were using the term as a coded anti-Semitic slur. Eschewing such silliness, Balint situates the movement firmly in the stream of Jewish-American history.
That history was inseparable from Commentary, founded, housed, and supported by the American Jewish Committee for the purpose of providing "informed discussion on the basic issues of our time especially as they bear on the position and future of Jews in our country and in the world scene."'
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