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‘America is home’: Commentary Magazine and the Refocusing of the Community of Memory, 1945–60

This article examines one of America's most celebrated periodicals, Commentary magazine, founded by the American Jewish Committee under the editorship of Elliot E. Cohen in 1945. The article describes the process by which young Jewish intellectuals, who had removed themselves from their communities, would edit and write for a magazine of the organised Jewish community. It examines Commentary's formative years during the 1940s and 1950s, in particular the nature of the relationship between the editors and its sponsors. In doing so, the article shows the effects of this literary and cultural effort in producing a new Jewish-American discourse of America as ‘home’.