Elliot E. Cohen
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Early life and education
Cohen was born in Des Moines, Iowa and attended Yale University, where he contributed light verse to a campus humor magazine, The Yale Record.[2]
Career
Menorah Journal
In the 1930s, he was a co-editor of the Menorah Journal with Herbert Solow.[3] [4]
Commentary
Cohen was the founder and first editor of Commentary, then published by the American Jewish Committee, from 1945 until his death by suicide in 1959.[1]
During his tenure at Commentary, the magazine had a liberal point of view. His editorial position was filled by Norman Podhoretz in 1960, by Neal Kozodoy in 1995, and by John Podhoretz in 2009.[5]
References
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- ↑ Bronson, Francis W., Thomas Caldecott Chubb, and Cyril Hume, eds. (1922) The Yale Record Book of Verse: 1872-1922. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 77-78.
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Further reading
- Strauss, Lauren B. "Staying afloat in the Melting Pot: Constructing an American Jewish identity in the Menorah Journal of the 1920s." American Jewish History 84.4 (1996): 315-331.
- Wald, Alan M. The New York intellectuals: the rise and decline of the anti-stalinist left from the 1930s to the 1980s (U North Carolina Press, 2017).
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