Background
While an undergraduate at Yale University, Yale, Cohen contributed light verse to a campus humor magazine, ''The Yale Record''.Career
Menorah Journal
In the 1930s, he was a co-editor of the ''Menorah Journal'' with Herbert Solow (journalist), Herbert Solow.''Commentary''
Cohen was founder-editor of ''Commentary (magazine), Commentary'', published by the American Jewish Committee (no longer affiliated) from 1945 until his death by suicide in 1959. During his tenure at ''Commentary'', the magazine had a liberal point of view. His editorial position was filled by Norman Podhoretz in 1960, by Neal Kozodoy in 1995, and by John Podhoretz in 2009.References
Further reading
* Strauss, Lauren B. "Staying afloat in the Melting Pot: Constructing an American Jewish identity in the Menorah Journal of the 1920s." ''American Jewish History'' 84.4 (1996): 315-331. * Wald, Alan M. ''The New York intellectuals: the rise and decline of the anti-stalinist left from the 1930s to the 1980s'' (U North Carolina Press, 2017).External links