Norman Podhoretz
| Norman Podhoretz | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 16, 1930 Brownsville, Brooklyn, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author Commentator |
| Nationality | American |
| Subject | Neoconservatism, American conservatism, Politics, Anti-communism |
| Spouse | Midge Decter (1956–Present) |
| Children | John Podhoretz |
Norman Podhoretz (/pɒdˈhɔːrᵻts/; born January 16, 1930) is an American neoconservative pundit and writer for Commentary magazine.
The son of Julius and Helen (Woliner) Podhoretz,Jewish immigrants from the Central European region of Galicia (then part of Poland, now Ukraine). Podhoretz was born and raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Podhoretz's family was leftist, with his elder sister joining a socialist youth movement. He skipped two grades and attended the prestigious Boys High School in the borough's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, ultimately graduating third in his class in 1946; his classmates included the prominent Assyriologist William W. Hallo and advertising executive Carl Spielvogel. Following his admission to Harvard University and New York University with partial tuition scholarships, Podhoretz ultimately elected to attend Columbia University when he was granted a full Pulitzer Scholarship.
In 1950, Podhoretz received his BA degree in English literature from Columbia, where he was mentored by Lionel Trilling. He concurrently earned a second bachelor's degree in Hebrew literature from the nearby Jewish Theological Seminary of America; although Podhoretz never intended to enter the rabbinate, his father (who only attended synagogue on the High Holidays) wanted to ensure that his son was nonetheless conversant in "the intellectual tradition of his people" as "a nonobservant New World Jew who... treasured the Hebraic tradition".
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