Concluded

Events

Commentary Magazine in the American Jewish Community and American Culture

March 10 and March 11, 2003

The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Papers Presented

(Many of these papers appear in Commentary in American Life.)

 

Murray Friedman, Director, Myer and Rosaline Feinstein Center for American Jewish History, Temple University

The Importance of Commentary and 20th Century American Society

 

Nathan Glazer, Professor Emeritus of Education and Sociology, Harvard University

The Shaping of Commentary:  Personal Reflections on the Early Period

 

Nathan Abrams, Faculty, University of London

Elliot Cohen and the Shaping of Commentary

 

Ruth Wisse, Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Is Commentary a Jewish Magazine?

 

Fred Siegel, Professor of History, Cooper Union For Science and Art

Commentary and the City

 

Tom Jeffers, Professor of English, Marquette University

Commentary" and the Literary Scene

 

Terry Teachout, Music Critic, Commentary

Commentary and the Common Reader

 

Richard Gid Powers, Professor of History, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center, City University of New York

Norman Podhoretz and the Cold War

 

George Nash, Independent Scholar

Commentary and Conservatism

 

John Diggins, Distinguished Professor of History, Graduate Center, City University of New York

Better Late Than Never:  Commentary’s Burden

 

Neal Kozodoy, Editor of Commentary

Commentary and the Years Ahead