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Article: Forgotten Godfathers: Premature Jewish Conservatives and the Rise of National Review.
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- American Jewish History
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
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For historians of the ideologically riven twentieth century the migration of writers and artists from Left to Right is a familiar phenomenon. But sometimes those who make it are not familiar, and sometimes their ultimate destination is a surprise.
The subject of this essay is seven American Jews who made this intellectual journey: seven men who, by the mid-1950s, found themselves "prematurely" on the political Right at a time when most intellectuals--including Jewish intellectuals--stood somewhere to the left of center. Unlike the pilgrimage of the often Jewish neoconservatives who came to prominence in the Reagan era, the trek that these seven took ...