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Article: Jewish voices in The New Republic
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- December 2, 1994
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Sanford Pinsker
Jewish Exponent
12-02-1994
Jewish voices in The New Republic.
THE NEW REPUBLIC READER: Eighty Years of Opinion and Debate, edited by Dorothy Wickenden. Basic Books, 518 pages, $28.
The New Republic is one of our nation's most distinguished magazines of political-cultural opinion. Its 80th anniversary provides an opportunity not only for celebrating the contributions it made to liberal thought, but also for estimating the Jewish component in this crucial evolution.
As Dorothy Wickenden points out in her introduction to The New Republic Reader, the seeds that eventually flowered as The new Republic were planted in Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life (1909), a book that ...