Books
The Parlor Terrorists
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Parlor Terrorists." Commentary, January, 1947.Excerpt: If some of my best friends are right, and the big thing right now is to show that the Jew is as common a common man as the next, Arthur Koestler’s Thieves in the Night is the… More
Eagle at My Eyes
– Glazer, Nathan. "Review of Eagle at My Eyes by Norman Katkov." Commentary, March, 1948.Excerpt: This book begins with the story of a pogrom and ends with the line, “All right, you bastards [the Gentiles], here I come.” The hero, named Joe, tells his story in the first… More
Shalom Means Peace by Robert St. John Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "'Shalom Means Peace', by Robert St. John Reviewed." Review of Shalom Means Peace by Robert St. John. Commentary May 1949.Excerpt: Mr. St. John, a journalist who has written books about Yugoslavia, here covers a few months in the spring and summer of 1948 in Palestine, while warfare and truces alternated. Mr.… More
Study of Man: What Sociology Knows About American Jews
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: What Sociology Knows About American Jews." Commentary, 1950.Excerpt: The sociological study of American Jews should help us to find the answers to many of the questions about the nature of Jewish life that are continually being raised in private and… More
The Study of Man: Why Jews Stay Sober
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: Why Jews Stay Sober." Commentary, 1952.Excerpt: In one respect, at least, the American Jews are not very different from the Israeli Jews who contemptuously dismiss them as assimilated goyim: neither have much use for hard… More
Four Rabbis in Search of American Judaism: Commentary on a History of Boston’s Temple Israel
– Glazer, Nathan. "Four Rabbis in Search of American Judaism: Commentary on a History of Boston's Temple Israel." Commentary, 1955.Excerpt: Temple Israel in Boston has enjoyed a succession of notable rabbis in its one hundred years of existence: Solomon Schindler, Charles Fleischer, Harry Levi, Joshua Loth Liebman, and… More
Conservative Judaism: An American Religious Movement by Marshall Sklare Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Conservative Judaism: An American Religious Movement' by Marshall Sklare, Reviewed." Review of Conservative Judaism: An American Religious Movement, by Marshall Sklare, Commentary, September, 1955.Excerpt: Conservative Judaism is a work of the highest distinction, both as a study of American Jewish life and as a contribution to contemporary American sociology. In both these fields,… More
The Jewish Revival in America: I: A Sociologist’s Report
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Jewish Revival in America: I: A Sociologist's Report." Commentary, 1955.Excerpt: This is the first of two essays on American Jewry’s present religious revival, based on a series of lectures delivered by the author this past spring at the University of… More
The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side." Commentary, January, 1956.Excerpt: Last month we described the various pressures and patterns that have led to larger and larger numbers of American Jews joining religious institutions. More Jewish children today… More
American Judaism
– Glazer, Nathan. American Judaism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957.Originally printed in 1957 and revised in 1988, Glazer’s American Judaism combines historical research with a sociological approach. Starting in the colonial period, Glazer studies… More
Rabbi in America by Israel Knox Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Rabbi in America', by Israel Knox Reviewed." Review of Rabbi in America, by Israel Knox, Commentary, March 1958.Excerpt: Rabbi in America is one of the volumes in the Library of American Biography series, edited by Oscar Handlin; and if, as one assumes, it is the only volume to be devoted to an… More
Alcohol and the Jews by Charles R. Snyder Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Alcohol and the Jews', by Charles R. Snyder Reviewed." Review of Alcohol and the Jews, by Charles R. Snyder, Commentary, June, 1958.Excerpt: The Yale Center of Alcohol Studies has been interested for a number of years in the remarkable differences in the rates of alcoholism among various ethnic groups in America. Thus,… More
City Problems & Jewish Responsibilities
– Glazer, Nathan. "City Problems & Jewish Responsibilities." Commentary, 1962.Excerpt: The American city is distinguished among big cities by virtue of the fact that the different ethnic elements making it up are very often of approximately equal size.
Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel P. Moynihan. Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1963.Beyond the Melting Pot is one of Glazer’s most well-known works. The book studies the role of the five largest ethnic groups of New York City in politics, economics, and culture. He… More
The Black Jews of Harlem: Negro Nationalism and the Dilemmas of Negro Leadership by Howard Brotz Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Black Jews of Harlem: Negro Nationalism and the Dilemmas of Negro Leadership by Howard Brotz Reviewed." Commentary, March, 1964.Excerpt: It is unfortunate that Howard Brotz decided to give his book so limited a title as The Black Jews of Harlem. Half of it is indeed about this strange sect—less strange now, to be… More
Negroes and Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism
– Glazer, Nathan. "Negroes and Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism." Commentary, 1964.Excerpt: If today one re-reads the article by Kenneth Clark on Negro-Jewish relations that was published in Commentary almost nineteen years ago, one will discover that tension between… More
The Characteristics of American Jews
– Glazer, Nathan. The Characteristics of American Jews. New York: Jewish Education Committee Press, 1965.The Many Faces of Anti-Semitism
– Feitelson, Rose and George Salomon. The Many Faces of Anti-Semitism. New York: American Jewish Committee Press, 1967.Nathan Glazer contributes a forward in Rose Feitelson and George Salomon’s 1967 work.
Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier', by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum Reviewed." Review of Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum, Commentary, August, 1968.Excerpt: “Lakeville” is a suburb of a Midwest metropolis, with a population of twenty-five thousand, a quarter of whom are Jews. It is an old suburb, which grew rapidly in the years… More
Soviet Jewry: 1969
– Glazer, Nathan. Soviet Jewry: 1969. New York: Academic Committee on Soviet Jewry, 1969.Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Moynihan. Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1970.In 1970, Glazer revised and reprinted his work Beyond the Melting Pot. The book compares the five largest ethnic groups of New York City, and uses them to study politics, economics, and… More
Revolutionism and the Jews: 3 – The Role of the Intellectual
– Glazer, Nathan. "Revolutionism and the Jews: 3 - The Role of the Intellectual." Commentary, September, 1971.Excerpt: It is notoriously difficult to frame a definition of “intellectuals” that will serve for all times and all issues, but let me suggest a working one: Intellectuals are people… More
McGovern and the Jews: A Debate
– Glazer, Nathan. "McGovern and the Jews: A Debate." Commentary, 1972.Excerpt: This will be the first electoral campaign in memory in which the question of specific Jewish interests may play a serious role in voting by American Jews.
The Exposed American Jew
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Exposed American Jew," Commentary, 1975.Excerpt: Until four or five years ago, it could be argued—and I myself did so argue—that the concern of some Jewish community leaders for the position of Jews in the United States was… More
Prejudice
– Pettigrew, Thomas, George Fredrickson, Dale Knobel, Nathan Glazer and Reed Ueda. Prejudice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.Glazer, along with his fellow authors, define and describe prejudice, while analyzing discrimination in America and the efforts to end it.
The Day is Short
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Day Is Short." Commentary (1982).Excerpt: Morris Abram is a former president of Brandeis University, of the American Jewish Committee, and of the Field Foundation; a former candidate for the Senate from New York; and a man… More
On Jewish Forebodings
– Glazer, Nathan. "On Jewish Forebodings." Commentary 80 (1985): 32-37.Excerpt: Students of American Jewry confront an interesting paradox: a sociological literature filled with forebodings about a group whose history, by all relevant measures, has gone very… More
Speech Acts
– Glazer, Nathan. "Speech Acts." Review of Jewish Identity and Civil Rights in America by Kenneth L. Marcus, The New Republic, December 20, 2010.Excerpt: Kenneth Marcus has written what are in effect two books, one of them distinctly odd. The first book is the story of Marcus’s efforts over a number of years to have Title VI of… More
Essays
The Parlor Terrorists
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Parlor Terrorists." Commentary, January, 1947.Excerpt: If some of my best friends are right, and the big thing right now is to show that the Jew is as common a common man as the next, Arthur Koestler’s Thieves in the Night is the… More
Eagle at My Eyes
– Glazer, Nathan. "Review of Eagle at My Eyes by Norman Katkov." Commentary, March, 1948.Excerpt: This book begins with the story of a pogrom and ends with the line, “All right, you bastards [the Gentiles], here I come.” The hero, named Joe, tells his story in the first… More
Shalom Means Peace by Robert St. John Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "'Shalom Means Peace', by Robert St. John Reviewed." Review of Shalom Means Peace by Robert St. John. Commentary May 1949.Excerpt: Mr. St. John, a journalist who has written books about Yugoslavia, here covers a few months in the spring and summer of 1948 in Palestine, while warfare and truces alternated. Mr.… More
Study of Man: What Sociology Knows About American Jews
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: What Sociology Knows About American Jews." Commentary, 1950.Excerpt: The sociological study of American Jews should help us to find the answers to many of the questions about the nature of Jewish life that are continually being raised in private and… More
The Study of Man: Why Jews Stay Sober
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: Why Jews Stay Sober." Commentary, 1952.Excerpt: In one respect, at least, the American Jews are not very different from the Israeli Jews who contemptuously dismiss them as assimilated goyim: neither have much use for hard… More
Four Rabbis in Search of American Judaism: Commentary on a History of Boston’s Temple Israel
– Glazer, Nathan. "Four Rabbis in Search of American Judaism: Commentary on a History of Boston's Temple Israel." Commentary, 1955.Excerpt: Temple Israel in Boston has enjoyed a succession of notable rabbis in its one hundred years of existence: Solomon Schindler, Charles Fleischer, Harry Levi, Joshua Loth Liebman, and… More
Conservative Judaism: An American Religious Movement by Marshall Sklare Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Conservative Judaism: An American Religious Movement' by Marshall Sklare, Reviewed." Review of Conservative Judaism: An American Religious Movement, by Marshall Sklare, Commentary, September, 1955.Excerpt: Conservative Judaism is a work of the highest distinction, both as a study of American Jewish life and as a contribution to contemporary American sociology. In both these fields,… More
The Jewish Revival in America: I: A Sociologist’s Report
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Jewish Revival in America: I: A Sociologist's Report." Commentary, 1955.Excerpt: This is the first of two essays on American Jewry’s present religious revival, based on a series of lectures delivered by the author this past spring at the University of… More
The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side." Commentary, January, 1956.Excerpt: Last month we described the various pressures and patterns that have led to larger and larger numbers of American Jews joining religious institutions. More Jewish children today… More
American Judaism
– Glazer, Nathan. American Judaism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957.Originally printed in 1957 and revised in 1988, Glazer’s American Judaism combines historical research with a sociological approach. Starting in the colonial period, Glazer studies… More
Rabbi in America by Israel Knox Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Rabbi in America', by Israel Knox Reviewed." Review of Rabbi in America, by Israel Knox, Commentary, March 1958.Excerpt: Rabbi in America is one of the volumes in the Library of American Biography series, edited by Oscar Handlin; and if, as one assumes, it is the only volume to be devoted to an… More
Alcohol and the Jews by Charles R. Snyder Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Alcohol and the Jews', by Charles R. Snyder Reviewed." Review of Alcohol and the Jews, by Charles R. Snyder, Commentary, June, 1958.Excerpt: The Yale Center of Alcohol Studies has been interested for a number of years in the remarkable differences in the rates of alcoholism among various ethnic groups in America. Thus,… More
City Problems & Jewish Responsibilities
– Glazer, Nathan. "City Problems & Jewish Responsibilities." Commentary, 1962.Excerpt: The American city is distinguished among big cities by virtue of the fact that the different ethnic elements making it up are very often of approximately equal size.
Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel P. Moynihan. Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1963.Beyond the Melting Pot is one of Glazer’s most well-known works. The book studies the role of the five largest ethnic groups of New York City in politics, economics, and culture. He… More
The Black Jews of Harlem: Negro Nationalism and the Dilemmas of Negro Leadership by Howard Brotz Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Black Jews of Harlem: Negro Nationalism and the Dilemmas of Negro Leadership by Howard Brotz Reviewed." Commentary, March, 1964.Excerpt: It is unfortunate that Howard Brotz decided to give his book so limited a title as The Black Jews of Harlem. Half of it is indeed about this strange sect—less strange now, to be… More
Negroes and Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism
– Glazer, Nathan. "Negroes and Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism." Commentary, 1964.Excerpt: If today one re-reads the article by Kenneth Clark on Negro-Jewish relations that was published in Commentary almost nineteen years ago, one will discover that tension between… More
The Characteristics of American Jews
– Glazer, Nathan. The Characteristics of American Jews. New York: Jewish Education Committee Press, 1965.The Many Faces of Anti-Semitism
– Feitelson, Rose and George Salomon. The Many Faces of Anti-Semitism. New York: American Jewish Committee Press, 1967.Nathan Glazer contributes a forward in Rose Feitelson and George Salomon’s 1967 work.
Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier', by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum Reviewed." Review of Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum, Commentary, August, 1968.Excerpt: “Lakeville” is a suburb of a Midwest metropolis, with a population of twenty-five thousand, a quarter of whom are Jews. It is an old suburb, which grew rapidly in the years… More
Soviet Jewry: 1969
– Glazer, Nathan. Soviet Jewry: 1969. New York: Academic Committee on Soviet Jewry, 1969.Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Moynihan. Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1970.In 1970, Glazer revised and reprinted his work Beyond the Melting Pot. The book compares the five largest ethnic groups of New York City, and uses them to study politics, economics, and… More
Revolutionism and the Jews: 3 – The Role of the Intellectual
– Glazer, Nathan. "Revolutionism and the Jews: 3 - The Role of the Intellectual." Commentary, September, 1971.Excerpt: It is notoriously difficult to frame a definition of “intellectuals” that will serve for all times and all issues, but let me suggest a working one: Intellectuals are people… More
McGovern and the Jews: A Debate
– Glazer, Nathan. "McGovern and the Jews: A Debate." Commentary, 1972.Excerpt: This will be the first electoral campaign in memory in which the question of specific Jewish interests may play a serious role in voting by American Jews.
The Exposed American Jew
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Exposed American Jew," Commentary, 1975.Excerpt: Until four or five years ago, it could be argued—and I myself did so argue—that the concern of some Jewish community leaders for the position of Jews in the United States was… More
Prejudice
– Pettigrew, Thomas, George Fredrickson, Dale Knobel, Nathan Glazer and Reed Ueda. Prejudice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.Glazer, along with his fellow authors, define and describe prejudice, while analyzing discrimination in America and the efforts to end it.
The Day is Short
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Day Is Short." Commentary (1982).Excerpt: Morris Abram is a former president of Brandeis University, of the American Jewish Committee, and of the Field Foundation; a former candidate for the Senate from New York; and a man… More
On Jewish Forebodings
– Glazer, Nathan. "On Jewish Forebodings." Commentary 80 (1985): 32-37.Excerpt: Students of American Jewry confront an interesting paradox: a sociological literature filled with forebodings about a group whose history, by all relevant measures, has gone very… More
Speech Acts
– Glazer, Nathan. "Speech Acts." Review of Jewish Identity and Civil Rights in America by Kenneth L. Marcus, The New Republic, December 20, 2010.Excerpt: Kenneth Marcus has written what are in effect two books, one of them distinctly odd. The first book is the story of Marcus’s efforts over a number of years to have Title VI of… More
Commentary
The Parlor Terrorists
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Parlor Terrorists." Commentary, January, 1947.Excerpt: If some of my best friends are right, and the big thing right now is to show that the Jew is as common a common man as the next, Arthur Koestler’s Thieves in the Night is the… More
Eagle at My Eyes
– Glazer, Nathan. "Review of Eagle at My Eyes by Norman Katkov." Commentary, March, 1948.Excerpt: This book begins with the story of a pogrom and ends with the line, “All right, you bastards [the Gentiles], here I come.” The hero, named Joe, tells his story in the first… More
Shalom Means Peace by Robert St. John Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "'Shalom Means Peace', by Robert St. John Reviewed." Review of Shalom Means Peace by Robert St. John. Commentary May 1949.Excerpt: Mr. St. John, a journalist who has written books about Yugoslavia, here covers a few months in the spring and summer of 1948 in Palestine, while warfare and truces alternated. Mr.… More
Study of Man: What Sociology Knows About American Jews
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: What Sociology Knows About American Jews." Commentary, 1950.Excerpt: The sociological study of American Jews should help us to find the answers to many of the questions about the nature of Jewish life that are continually being raised in private and… More
The Study of Man: Why Jews Stay Sober
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: Why Jews Stay Sober." Commentary, 1952.Excerpt: In one respect, at least, the American Jews are not very different from the Israeli Jews who contemptuously dismiss them as assimilated goyim: neither have much use for hard… More
Four Rabbis in Search of American Judaism: Commentary on a History of Boston’s Temple Israel
– Glazer, Nathan. "Four Rabbis in Search of American Judaism: Commentary on a History of Boston's Temple Israel." Commentary, 1955.Excerpt: Temple Israel in Boston has enjoyed a succession of notable rabbis in its one hundred years of existence: Solomon Schindler, Charles Fleischer, Harry Levi, Joshua Loth Liebman, and… More
Conservative Judaism: An American Religious Movement by Marshall Sklare Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Conservative Judaism: An American Religious Movement' by Marshall Sklare, Reviewed." Review of Conservative Judaism: An American Religious Movement, by Marshall Sklare, Commentary, September, 1955.Excerpt: Conservative Judaism is a work of the highest distinction, both as a study of American Jewish life and as a contribution to contemporary American sociology. In both these fields,… More
The Jewish Revival in America: I: A Sociologist’s Report
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Jewish Revival in America: I: A Sociologist's Report." Commentary, 1955.Excerpt: This is the first of two essays on American Jewry’s present religious revival, based on a series of lectures delivered by the author this past spring at the University of… More
The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side." Commentary, January, 1956.Excerpt: Last month we described the various pressures and patterns that have led to larger and larger numbers of American Jews joining religious institutions. More Jewish children today… More
American Judaism
– Glazer, Nathan. American Judaism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957.Originally printed in 1957 and revised in 1988, Glazer’s American Judaism combines historical research with a sociological approach. Starting in the colonial period, Glazer studies… More
Rabbi in America by Israel Knox Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Rabbi in America', by Israel Knox Reviewed." Review of Rabbi in America, by Israel Knox, Commentary, March 1958.Excerpt: Rabbi in America is one of the volumes in the Library of American Biography series, edited by Oscar Handlin; and if, as one assumes, it is the only volume to be devoted to an… More
Alcohol and the Jews by Charles R. Snyder Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Alcohol and the Jews', by Charles R. Snyder Reviewed." Review of Alcohol and the Jews, by Charles R. Snyder, Commentary, June, 1958.Excerpt: The Yale Center of Alcohol Studies has been interested for a number of years in the remarkable differences in the rates of alcoholism among various ethnic groups in America. Thus,… More
City Problems & Jewish Responsibilities
– Glazer, Nathan. "City Problems & Jewish Responsibilities." Commentary, 1962.Excerpt: The American city is distinguished among big cities by virtue of the fact that the different ethnic elements making it up are very often of approximately equal size.
Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel P. Moynihan. Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1963.Beyond the Melting Pot is one of Glazer’s most well-known works. The book studies the role of the five largest ethnic groups of New York City in politics, economics, and culture. He… More
The Black Jews of Harlem: Negro Nationalism and the Dilemmas of Negro Leadership by Howard Brotz Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Black Jews of Harlem: Negro Nationalism and the Dilemmas of Negro Leadership by Howard Brotz Reviewed." Commentary, March, 1964.Excerpt: It is unfortunate that Howard Brotz decided to give his book so limited a title as The Black Jews of Harlem. Half of it is indeed about this strange sect—less strange now, to be… More
Negroes and Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism
– Glazer, Nathan. "Negroes and Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism." Commentary, 1964.Excerpt: If today one re-reads the article by Kenneth Clark on Negro-Jewish relations that was published in Commentary almost nineteen years ago, one will discover that tension between… More
The Characteristics of American Jews
– Glazer, Nathan. The Characteristics of American Jews. New York: Jewish Education Committee Press, 1965.The Many Faces of Anti-Semitism
– Feitelson, Rose and George Salomon. The Many Faces of Anti-Semitism. New York: American Jewish Committee Press, 1967.Nathan Glazer contributes a forward in Rose Feitelson and George Salomon’s 1967 work.
Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier', by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum Reviewed." Review of Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum, Commentary, August, 1968.Excerpt: “Lakeville” is a suburb of a Midwest metropolis, with a population of twenty-five thousand, a quarter of whom are Jews. It is an old suburb, which grew rapidly in the years… More
Soviet Jewry: 1969
– Glazer, Nathan. Soviet Jewry: 1969. New York: Academic Committee on Soviet Jewry, 1969.Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Moynihan. Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1970.In 1970, Glazer revised and reprinted his work Beyond the Melting Pot. The book compares the five largest ethnic groups of New York City, and uses them to study politics, economics, and… More
Revolutionism and the Jews: 3 – The Role of the Intellectual
– Glazer, Nathan. "Revolutionism and the Jews: 3 - The Role of the Intellectual." Commentary, September, 1971.Excerpt: It is notoriously difficult to frame a definition of “intellectuals” that will serve for all times and all issues, but let me suggest a working one: Intellectuals are people… More
McGovern and the Jews: A Debate
– Glazer, Nathan. "McGovern and the Jews: A Debate." Commentary, 1972.Excerpt: This will be the first electoral campaign in memory in which the question of specific Jewish interests may play a serious role in voting by American Jews.
The Exposed American Jew
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Exposed American Jew," Commentary, 1975.Excerpt: Until four or five years ago, it could be argued—and I myself did so argue—that the concern of some Jewish community leaders for the position of Jews in the United States was… More
Prejudice
– Pettigrew, Thomas, George Fredrickson, Dale Knobel, Nathan Glazer and Reed Ueda. Prejudice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.Glazer, along with his fellow authors, define and describe prejudice, while analyzing discrimination in America and the efforts to end it.
The Day is Short
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Day Is Short." Commentary (1982).Excerpt: Morris Abram is a former president of Brandeis University, of the American Jewish Committee, and of the Field Foundation; a former candidate for the Senate from New York; and a man… More
On Jewish Forebodings
– Glazer, Nathan. "On Jewish Forebodings." Commentary 80 (1985): 32-37.Excerpt: Students of American Jewry confront an interesting paradox: a sociological literature filled with forebodings about a group whose history, by all relevant measures, has gone very… More
Speech Acts
– Glazer, Nathan. "Speech Acts." Review of Jewish Identity and Civil Rights in America by Kenneth L. Marcus, The New Republic, December 20, 2010.Excerpt: Kenneth Marcus has written what are in effect two books, one of them distinctly odd. The first book is the story of Marcus’s efforts over a number of years to have Title VI of… More
Multimedia
The Parlor Terrorists
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Parlor Terrorists." Commentary, January, 1947.Excerpt: If some of my best friends are right, and the big thing right now is to show that the Jew is as common a common man as the next, Arthur Koestler’s Thieves in the Night is the… More
Eagle at My Eyes
– Glazer, Nathan. "Review of Eagle at My Eyes by Norman Katkov." Commentary, March, 1948.Excerpt: This book begins with the story of a pogrom and ends with the line, “All right, you bastards [the Gentiles], here I come.” The hero, named Joe, tells his story in the first… More
Shalom Means Peace by Robert St. John Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "'Shalom Means Peace', by Robert St. John Reviewed." Review of Shalom Means Peace by Robert St. John. Commentary May 1949.Excerpt: Mr. St. John, a journalist who has written books about Yugoslavia, here covers a few months in the spring and summer of 1948 in Palestine, while warfare and truces alternated. Mr.… More
Study of Man: What Sociology Knows About American Jews
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: What Sociology Knows About American Jews." Commentary, 1950.Excerpt: The sociological study of American Jews should help us to find the answers to many of the questions about the nature of Jewish life that are continually being raised in private and… More
The Study of Man: Why Jews Stay Sober
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: Why Jews Stay Sober." Commentary, 1952.Excerpt: In one respect, at least, the American Jews are not very different from the Israeli Jews who contemptuously dismiss them as assimilated goyim: neither have much use for hard… More
Four Rabbis in Search of American Judaism: Commentary on a History of Boston’s Temple Israel
– Glazer, Nathan. "Four Rabbis in Search of American Judaism: Commentary on a History of Boston's Temple Israel." Commentary, 1955.Excerpt: Temple Israel in Boston has enjoyed a succession of notable rabbis in its one hundred years of existence: Solomon Schindler, Charles Fleischer, Harry Levi, Joshua Loth Liebman, and… More
Conservative Judaism: An American Religious Movement by Marshall Sklare Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Conservative Judaism: An American Religious Movement' by Marshall Sklare, Reviewed." Review of Conservative Judaism: An American Religious Movement, by Marshall Sklare, Commentary, September, 1955.Excerpt: Conservative Judaism is a work of the highest distinction, both as a study of American Jewish life and as a contribution to contemporary American sociology. In both these fields,… More
The Jewish Revival in America: I: A Sociologist’s Report
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Jewish Revival in America: I: A Sociologist's Report." Commentary, 1955.Excerpt: This is the first of two essays on American Jewry’s present religious revival, based on a series of lectures delivered by the author this past spring at the University of… More
The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side." Commentary, January, 1956.Excerpt: Last month we described the various pressures and patterns that have led to larger and larger numbers of American Jews joining religious institutions. More Jewish children today… More
American Judaism
– Glazer, Nathan. American Judaism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957.Originally printed in 1957 and revised in 1988, Glazer’s American Judaism combines historical research with a sociological approach. Starting in the colonial period, Glazer studies… More
Rabbi in America by Israel Knox Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Rabbi in America', by Israel Knox Reviewed." Review of Rabbi in America, by Israel Knox, Commentary, March 1958.Excerpt: Rabbi in America is one of the volumes in the Library of American Biography series, edited by Oscar Handlin; and if, as one assumes, it is the only volume to be devoted to an… More
Alcohol and the Jews by Charles R. Snyder Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Alcohol and the Jews', by Charles R. Snyder Reviewed." Review of Alcohol and the Jews, by Charles R. Snyder, Commentary, June, 1958.Excerpt: The Yale Center of Alcohol Studies has been interested for a number of years in the remarkable differences in the rates of alcoholism among various ethnic groups in America. Thus,… More
City Problems & Jewish Responsibilities
– Glazer, Nathan. "City Problems & Jewish Responsibilities." Commentary, 1962.Excerpt: The American city is distinguished among big cities by virtue of the fact that the different ethnic elements making it up are very often of approximately equal size.
Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel P. Moynihan. Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1963.Beyond the Melting Pot is one of Glazer’s most well-known works. The book studies the role of the five largest ethnic groups of New York City in politics, economics, and culture. He… More
The Black Jews of Harlem: Negro Nationalism and the Dilemmas of Negro Leadership by Howard Brotz Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Black Jews of Harlem: Negro Nationalism and the Dilemmas of Negro Leadership by Howard Brotz Reviewed." Commentary, March, 1964.Excerpt: It is unfortunate that Howard Brotz decided to give his book so limited a title as The Black Jews of Harlem. Half of it is indeed about this strange sect—less strange now, to be… More
Negroes and Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism
– Glazer, Nathan. "Negroes and Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism." Commentary, 1964.Excerpt: If today one re-reads the article by Kenneth Clark on Negro-Jewish relations that was published in Commentary almost nineteen years ago, one will discover that tension between… More
The Characteristics of American Jews
– Glazer, Nathan. The Characteristics of American Jews. New York: Jewish Education Committee Press, 1965.The Many Faces of Anti-Semitism
– Feitelson, Rose and George Salomon. The Many Faces of Anti-Semitism. New York: American Jewish Committee Press, 1967.Nathan Glazer contributes a forward in Rose Feitelson and George Salomon’s 1967 work.
Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier', by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum Reviewed." Review of Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum, Commentary, August, 1968.Excerpt: “Lakeville” is a suburb of a Midwest metropolis, with a population of twenty-five thousand, a quarter of whom are Jews. It is an old suburb, which grew rapidly in the years… More
Soviet Jewry: 1969
– Glazer, Nathan. Soviet Jewry: 1969. New York: Academic Committee on Soviet Jewry, 1969.Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Moynihan. Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1970.In 1970, Glazer revised and reprinted his work Beyond the Melting Pot. The book compares the five largest ethnic groups of New York City, and uses them to study politics, economics, and… More
Revolutionism and the Jews: 3 – The Role of the Intellectual
– Glazer, Nathan. "Revolutionism and the Jews: 3 - The Role of the Intellectual." Commentary, September, 1971.Excerpt: It is notoriously difficult to frame a definition of “intellectuals” that will serve for all times and all issues, but let me suggest a working one: Intellectuals are people… More
McGovern and the Jews: A Debate
– Glazer, Nathan. "McGovern and the Jews: A Debate." Commentary, 1972.Excerpt: This will be the first electoral campaign in memory in which the question of specific Jewish interests may play a serious role in voting by American Jews.
The Exposed American Jew
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Exposed American Jew," Commentary, 1975.Excerpt: Until four or five years ago, it could be argued—and I myself did so argue—that the concern of some Jewish community leaders for the position of Jews in the United States was… More
Prejudice
– Pettigrew, Thomas, George Fredrickson, Dale Knobel, Nathan Glazer and Reed Ueda. Prejudice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.Glazer, along with his fellow authors, define and describe prejudice, while analyzing discrimination in America and the efforts to end it.
The Day is Short
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Day Is Short." Commentary (1982).Excerpt: Morris Abram is a former president of Brandeis University, of the American Jewish Committee, and of the Field Foundation; a former candidate for the Senate from New York; and a man… More
On Jewish Forebodings
– Glazer, Nathan. "On Jewish Forebodings." Commentary 80 (1985): 32-37.Excerpt: Students of American Jewry confront an interesting paradox: a sociological literature filled with forebodings about a group whose history, by all relevant measures, has gone very… More
Speech Acts
– Glazer, Nathan. "Speech Acts." Review of Jewish Identity and Civil Rights in America by Kenneth L. Marcus, The New Republic, December 20, 2010.Excerpt: Kenneth Marcus has written what are in effect two books, one of them distinctly odd. The first book is the story of Marcus’s efforts over a number of years to have Title VI of… More
Teaching
The Parlor Terrorists
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Parlor Terrorists." Commentary, January, 1947.Excerpt: If some of my best friends are right, and the big thing right now is to show that the Jew is as common a common man as the next, Arthur Koestler’s Thieves in the Night is the… More
Eagle at My Eyes
– Glazer, Nathan. "Review of Eagle at My Eyes by Norman Katkov." Commentary, March, 1948.Excerpt: This book begins with the story of a pogrom and ends with the line, “All right, you bastards [the Gentiles], here I come.” The hero, named Joe, tells his story in the first… More
Shalom Means Peace by Robert St. John Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "'Shalom Means Peace', by Robert St. John Reviewed." Review of Shalom Means Peace by Robert St. John. Commentary May 1949.Excerpt: Mr. St. John, a journalist who has written books about Yugoslavia, here covers a few months in the spring and summer of 1948 in Palestine, while warfare and truces alternated. Mr.… More
Study of Man: What Sociology Knows About American Jews
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: What Sociology Knows About American Jews." Commentary, 1950.Excerpt: The sociological study of American Jews should help us to find the answers to many of the questions about the nature of Jewish life that are continually being raised in private and… More
The Study of Man: Why Jews Stay Sober
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: Why Jews Stay Sober." Commentary, 1952.Excerpt: In one respect, at least, the American Jews are not very different from the Israeli Jews who contemptuously dismiss them as assimilated goyim: neither have much use for hard… More
Four Rabbis in Search of American Judaism: Commentary on a History of Boston’s Temple Israel
– Glazer, Nathan. "Four Rabbis in Search of American Judaism: Commentary on a History of Boston's Temple Israel." Commentary, 1955.Excerpt: Temple Israel in Boston has enjoyed a succession of notable rabbis in its one hundred years of existence: Solomon Schindler, Charles Fleischer, Harry Levi, Joshua Loth Liebman, and… More
Conservative Judaism: An American Religious Movement by Marshall Sklare Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Conservative Judaism: An American Religious Movement' by Marshall Sklare, Reviewed." Review of Conservative Judaism: An American Religious Movement, by Marshall Sklare, Commentary, September, 1955.Excerpt: Conservative Judaism is a work of the highest distinction, both as a study of American Jewish life and as a contribution to contemporary American sociology. In both these fields,… More
The Jewish Revival in America: I: A Sociologist’s Report
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Jewish Revival in America: I: A Sociologist's Report." Commentary, 1955.Excerpt: This is the first of two essays on American Jewry’s present religious revival, based on a series of lectures delivered by the author this past spring at the University of… More
The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side." Commentary, January, 1956.Excerpt: Last month we described the various pressures and patterns that have led to larger and larger numbers of American Jews joining religious institutions. More Jewish children today… More
American Judaism
– Glazer, Nathan. American Judaism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957.Originally printed in 1957 and revised in 1988, Glazer’s American Judaism combines historical research with a sociological approach. Starting in the colonial period, Glazer studies… More
Rabbi in America by Israel Knox Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Rabbi in America', by Israel Knox Reviewed." Review of Rabbi in America, by Israel Knox, Commentary, March 1958.Excerpt: Rabbi in America is one of the volumes in the Library of American Biography series, edited by Oscar Handlin; and if, as one assumes, it is the only volume to be devoted to an… More
Alcohol and the Jews by Charles R. Snyder Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Alcohol and the Jews', by Charles R. Snyder Reviewed." Review of Alcohol and the Jews, by Charles R. Snyder, Commentary, June, 1958.Excerpt: The Yale Center of Alcohol Studies has been interested for a number of years in the remarkable differences in the rates of alcoholism among various ethnic groups in America. Thus,… More
City Problems & Jewish Responsibilities
– Glazer, Nathan. "City Problems & Jewish Responsibilities." Commentary, 1962.Excerpt: The American city is distinguished among big cities by virtue of the fact that the different ethnic elements making it up are very often of approximately equal size.
Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel P. Moynihan. Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1963.Beyond the Melting Pot is one of Glazer’s most well-known works. The book studies the role of the five largest ethnic groups of New York City in politics, economics, and culture. He… More
The Black Jews of Harlem: Negro Nationalism and the Dilemmas of Negro Leadership by Howard Brotz Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Black Jews of Harlem: Negro Nationalism and the Dilemmas of Negro Leadership by Howard Brotz Reviewed." Commentary, March, 1964.Excerpt: It is unfortunate that Howard Brotz decided to give his book so limited a title as The Black Jews of Harlem. Half of it is indeed about this strange sect—less strange now, to be… More
Negroes and Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism
– Glazer, Nathan. "Negroes and Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism." Commentary, 1964.Excerpt: If today one re-reads the article by Kenneth Clark on Negro-Jewish relations that was published in Commentary almost nineteen years ago, one will discover that tension between… More
The Characteristics of American Jews
– Glazer, Nathan. The Characteristics of American Jews. New York: Jewish Education Committee Press, 1965.The Many Faces of Anti-Semitism
– Feitelson, Rose and George Salomon. The Many Faces of Anti-Semitism. New York: American Jewish Committee Press, 1967.Nathan Glazer contributes a forward in Rose Feitelson and George Salomon’s 1967 work.
Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier', by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum Reviewed." Review of Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum, Commentary, August, 1968.Excerpt: “Lakeville” is a suburb of a Midwest metropolis, with a population of twenty-five thousand, a quarter of whom are Jews. It is an old suburb, which grew rapidly in the years… More
Soviet Jewry: 1969
– Glazer, Nathan. Soviet Jewry: 1969. New York: Academic Committee on Soviet Jewry, 1969.Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Moynihan. Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1970.In 1970, Glazer revised and reprinted his work Beyond the Melting Pot. The book compares the five largest ethnic groups of New York City, and uses them to study politics, economics, and… More
Revolutionism and the Jews: 3 – The Role of the Intellectual
– Glazer, Nathan. "Revolutionism and the Jews: 3 - The Role of the Intellectual." Commentary, September, 1971.Excerpt: It is notoriously difficult to frame a definition of “intellectuals” that will serve for all times and all issues, but let me suggest a working one: Intellectuals are people… More
McGovern and the Jews: A Debate
– Glazer, Nathan. "McGovern and the Jews: A Debate." Commentary, 1972.Excerpt: This will be the first electoral campaign in memory in which the question of specific Jewish interests may play a serious role in voting by American Jews.
The Exposed American Jew
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Exposed American Jew," Commentary, 1975.Excerpt: Until four or five years ago, it could be argued—and I myself did so argue—that the concern of some Jewish community leaders for the position of Jews in the United States was… More
Prejudice
– Pettigrew, Thomas, George Fredrickson, Dale Knobel, Nathan Glazer and Reed Ueda. Prejudice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.Glazer, along with his fellow authors, define and describe prejudice, while analyzing discrimination in America and the efforts to end it.
The Day is Short
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Day Is Short." Commentary (1982).Excerpt: Morris Abram is a former president of Brandeis University, of the American Jewish Committee, and of the Field Foundation; a former candidate for the Senate from New York; and a man… More
On Jewish Forebodings
– Glazer, Nathan. "On Jewish Forebodings." Commentary 80 (1985): 32-37.Excerpt: Students of American Jewry confront an interesting paradox: a sociological literature filled with forebodings about a group whose history, by all relevant measures, has gone very… More
Speech Acts
– Glazer, Nathan. "Speech Acts." Review of Jewish Identity and Civil Rights in America by Kenneth L. Marcus, The New Republic, December 20, 2010.Excerpt: Kenneth Marcus has written what are in effect two books, one of them distinctly odd. The first book is the story of Marcus’s efforts over a number of years to have Title VI of… More