Commentary Magazine: A Journal of Significant Thought and Opinion: 1945-1959 - Softcover

Nathan Abrams

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0853036640 ISBN 13: 9780853036647

Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

Launched in 1945, Commentary magazine became one of America's most celebrated periodicals. Under the editorship of Elliot E Cohen, it developed into the premier postwar journal of Jewish affairs attracting a readership far wider than its Jewish community origin. This book is the first detailed and critical study of Commentary magazine during its formative years. Abrams traces the development of the key issues that have occupied its first fifty years: the construction of a new American Jewish identity, Judaism, the Holocaust, the State of Israel, and the Cold War. This account of the chief and most influential journal of Jewish thought, opinion, and culture in America will complete the picture of postwar American Jewish and general intellectual life. It is based upon a wide range of sources including archival and other material never before published in the context of Commentary magazine.

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About the Author

Nathan Abrams was educated at the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham. He holds a PhD in American Studies. He is currently a Lecturer in American History at the University of Aberdeen. He writes widely on American history, politics and culture and his work has appeared in The Independent, The New Statesman, The Chronicle of Higher Education , Jewish Chronicle and The Times Higher Education Supplement.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0853036640
• ISBN 13: 9780853036647
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 201