In that program, Rosenberg sidestepped any deeper pondering of the meaning of the term Jewish Literary Mafia, apart from noting that he found it droll. About his own Ukrainian Jewish roots — he was New York-born, a Brooklyn College alumnus — Rosenberg projected an aura of security and comfort in his own identity.
He confidently assayed subjects including religion, architecture, history, language, and philosophy. Yet his emotional involvement was clear in a May interview with Martin Goldsmith, author of an account of passengers on the MS St.
Louis, a German ocean liner which sought sanctuary for Jewish refugees. After the ship was turned away from Cuba, the United States, and Canada, it returned to Europe, where many of the passengers would be murdered in concentration camps.
That same year in July, Rosenberg presented a program on comparative religion and the sacred texts of the Abrahamic traditions, with guests including Rabbi Samuel N. Renata Adler noted his interpersonal skills in a profile of G. Adler preserved their exchange:. Milt Rosenberg. They married in and have one son, Matthew Rosenberg, of Seattle. In addition to his two grandchildren and friends, Morris wrote that Rosenberg leaves behind the "thousands of students and millions of listeners who will no longer hear his voice probing the far reaches of the cosmos, the fine details of history and literature, and the depths of the human mind.
Jonah Meadows , Patch Staff. He was a polymath, a perceptive analyst, and a keen questioner. These traits, combined with a prodigious memory born of wide reading and experience, made him an outstanding interlocutor of political leaders, business executives, academics, journalists, artists, and others in the long parade of guests whom he welcomed to his studios and to the extraordinary conversations that he then held for the benefit of millions of Americans listening to his program each night in their homes and cars across the nation as streamed by clear-channel radio at 50, watts.
For four decades his show was the mandatory first stop on the book tour of every author of a serious work of fiction or non-fiction. His career was also described by the arc of a moral conversion, carried out in public via his nightly broadcasts, from the "soft mindless leftism of an East Coast academic" to an embrace of free market economics, traditional social values, and an appreciation of the United States as the world's best hope for the defense of freedom and human decency in global affairs.
Thank Reply Share. The rules of replying: Be respectful. This is a space for friendly local discussions. One of those minute-long tapes was mailed to more than stations across the country to be used free of charge. But he had a longer run. The two-hour daily weeknight broadcasts sometimes pre-empted by baseball or hockey games featured an hourlong interview with his guests followed by an hour during which listeners could share by telephone their opinions, gripes and questions.
Milt named the guy who actually said it and what the guy I was referring to actually had said. Still, some of those closest to him saw a side the listeners never did. To even be considered for such a job, applicants had to correctly answer a legendarily difficult series of questions posed by Rosenberg. When I was working with Milt, he made me feel as smart as he was. He bounced ideas off of me. He was smarter than anyone I had ever met, but he made me feel like his equal.
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