"It's Splendid When the Town Whore Gets Religion and Joins the Church": The Rise of the Jewish Neoconservatives as Observed by the Paleoconservatives in the 1980s

During the Reagan administration a new group of consevative intellectuals, with deep roots in the anti-Stalinist left and Jewish New York, was gaining influence in Washington. Their ascent was observed with ill-concealed envy by older conservatives who themselves had only recently gained a foothold...

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Published inShofar (West Lafayette, Ind.) Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 83 - 98
Main Author Klingenstein, Susanne
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published West Lafayette University of Nebraska Press 01.04.2003
Purdue University Press
Subjects
Accentuation
Antisemitism
Armed forces
Conservatism
Culture
English language
History
Ideology
Immigrants
Jewish people
Jewish peoples
Judaism
Language acquisition
Liberalism
Metaphor
Minority & ethnic groups
Modernist art
Neoconservatism
Non-native accent
Political aspects
Politics
Refugees
Religion
Social conditions & trends
Stereotypes
University administration
War
Yiddish language
United States
New York
United States > US
Israel
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Summary:During the Reagan administration a new group of consevative intellectuals, with deep roots in the anti-Stalinist left and Jewish New York, was gaining influence in Washington. Their ascent was observed with ill-concealed envy by older conservatives who themselves had only recently gained a foothold in Washington. As the marginalization of the paleoconservatives by the neoconservatives became irreversible, the paleos lashed out in rhetoric subtly laced with antisemitic stereotypes.
ISSN:0882-8539
1534-5165
1534-5165
DOI:10.1353/sho.2003.0021