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Notes
1. Norman Podhoretz, Why are Jews Liberals? (New York: Doubleday, 2009), 258.
2. Himmelfarb was referring to the 1968 presidential election, in which the Jewish vote for Hubert Humphrey was equal to that of blacks and Chicanos. Quoted in Nathan Glazer, “The Anomalous Liberalism of American Jews”, in The Americanization of the Jews, eds. Robert M. Seltzer and Norman J. Cohen (New York: New York University Press, 1995), 133; Geoffrey Brahm Levey, “The Liberalism of American Jews – Has It Been Explained?” British Journal of Political Science 26, no. 3 (July 1996): 369.
3. Steven M. Cohen, The Dimensions of American Jewish Liberalism (New York: American Jewish Committee, 1989), 2; 32–3.
4. Podhoretz, Why are Jews Liberals? 291.
5. Ibid., 269, 291–92.
6. Ibid., 263.
7. Ibid., 291–92; 283.
8. Podhoretz, Why are Jews Liberals? 210; 284, 170.
9. Richard Perle cited in Podhoretz, Why are Jews Liberals? 168.
10. Jonathan D. Sarna, “American Jewish Political Conservatism in Historical Perspective,” American Jewish History 87, no. 2/3 (June–September 1999): 119.
11. Jerold S. Auerbach, Rabbis and Lawyers: The Journey from Torah to Constitution (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1990).
12. Podhoretz, Why Jews are Liberals? 42.
13. Stephen J. Whitfield, American Space, Jewish Time: Essays in Modern Culture and Politics (Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1988), 89, 93, 101.
14. Peter Y. Medding, “Towards a General Theory of Jewish Political Interests and Behaviour” (Paper delivered at the Fifth International Seminar of Bar Ilan University’s Institute for Judaism and Contemporary Thought, June 1975), 118–121.