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Elliot E. Cohen (March 14, 1899 – May 28, 1959) was the founder and first
editor Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information. The editing process can involve correction, condensation, organization, a ...
of '' Commentary''.


Early life and education

Cohen was born in
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and attended
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, where he contributed light verse to a campus humor magazine, ''
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''.


Career


''Menorah Journal''

In the 1930s, he was a co-editor of the ''
Menorah Journal ''The Menorah Journal'' (1915–1962) was a Jewish-American magazine, founded in New York City. Some have called it "the leading English-language Jewish intellectual and literary journal of its era." The journal lasted from 1915 until ...
'' with Herbert Solow.


''Commentary''

Cohen was the founder and first editor of '' Commentary'', then published by the
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, from 1945 until his death by
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in 1959. 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.


References


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). 1959 deaths 1899 births 1959 suicides 20th-century American Jews American Jewish Committee American magazine editors American male non-fiction writers Editors of religious publications Jewish American non-fiction writers Suicides in New York City The Yale Record alumni Writers from Des Moines, Iowa {{US-editor-stub