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51. Jerald E. Podair, "'White' Values, 'Black' Values: The Ocean Hill-
Brownsville Controversy and New York City Culture, 1965—1975," Radical History
Review 59 (Spring 1994), 36-59; see also, Jonathan Kaufman, Broken Alliance (New
York, 1988); Martin Mayer, The Teachers Strike, New York, 1968 (New York, 1969);
Maurice Berube and Marilyn Gittell, eds., Confrontation at Ocean Hill-Brownsville
(New York, 1969).
52. Robert I. Friedman, "The Enemy from Within: How the Anti-Defamation
League Turned the Notion of Human Rights on its Head, Spying on Progressives and
Funneling Information to Law Enforcement," Village Voice, May 11, 1993.
53. Matthew J. Jacobs, "Special Sorrows: Irish-, Polish- and Jewish-Americans,
Nationalism and the Diaspora Immigrant" (Ph.D. diss., Brown University, 1992).
54. See Beth Sims, Workers of the World Undermined (Boston, 1992), 38-40, on the
AFL-CIO role.
55. When Jewish neoconservative Allan Bloom exalted Plato so as to curse Black
music as degenerate, he acutely identified (to the applause of many formerly socialist
Jewish readers) both the continuing claims upon Western values and the curious
hatred of mass culture which Jews and Blacks had done so much to create. Bloom had
of course never been on the Left, but he found his most important sponsor (and author
of the book's Forward) in manque Marxist Saul Bellow, who, like neoconservative wizard
Irving Kristol (father of William Kristol, Dan Quayle's aide-de-camp and sharp-
shooter on Jewish questions) was a Trotskyist of earlier days. See Allan Bloom, The
Closing of the American Mind (New York, 1987). During the early 1 990s, Bellow tended
to withdraw from provocative (and outrageously racist) statements made earlier in
support of the book; yet he remained a weathervane in the Jewish left-turned-right.
Prominent SDUSA intellectuals, anxiously searching for an issue after the Cold War,
inevitably found it in the presumably baneful effects of multiculturalism in
the American university. The Partisan Review, a favorite vehicle for the inevitable
denunciations perhaps even more than Commentary or the New Leader, thus ended its
own long journey from extreme Left to extreme Right of an overwhelmingly Jewish
constituency.
56. Robert I. Friedman, "The Enemy from Within"; on the AFL-CIO and Central
Intelligence Agency, see Daniel Cantor and Juliet Schor, Tunnel Vision: Labor, the World
Economy and Central America (Boston, 1987).
57. Even here, the imprint of the Popular Front remains. In the historically social
democratic Dissent magazine and elsewhere, blame for the collapse of the alliance is
generally placed upon African Americans, with the rightward drift of Jewish institutions
and the role of Jewish-owned big business from Wall Street to corporations to
Congress generally slighted if not entirely ignored. Among those left journals outside