Below we publish five of the many responses to our request for comments on Elliot E. Cohen’s “Jewish Culture in America,” which appeared in the May 1947 issue of COMMENTARY. It is our intention to publish some further selections from these comments in later issues.

Mr. Cohen’s article spoke for the creation of a specifically Jewish culture in America that, without confining itself within the traditional bounds of religion or the new secular bounds of nationalism, would speak to Jews and the rest of the world with the same pertinence that the highest culture of the West in general does. Drawing no sectarian lines, this American Jewish culture would welcome the best efforts of Jews inside and outside the Jewish community to make Jewish experience in this country meaningful. But, hopefully, it would depend on the organized Jewish community to provide these efforts with the core of both an audience and financial support. . . .