Abstract
[...] Friedman, an accomplished historian who served as mid-Atlantic director for the American Jewish Committee, vice chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, and founding director of the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History at Temple University, was a patient and a hopeful man. From the articulation of conservative positions on the espionage and McCarthy controversies of the immediate postwar era, to the founding of National Review in 1955 and the formation of the Goldwater movement in the Republican party, to the critique of the multiple debacles of the Lindsay years in New York City, to the response to the post-Vietnam crack-up of American foreign policy, and in countless other such moments in the recent past, conservative Jews have not merely popped up but played highly visible and important roles.