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This Mafile photo shows New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger in his office in New York. Still, stories related to Jewish topics were carefully edited, said Goldman, who worked at the Times from 1973-1993. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who died in 2012, identified as “nominally Jewish, although not at all religious.” He was “much more comfortable with his Judaism” than his father, wrote former Times religion reporter Ari Goldman. Dryfoos died two years later from heart failure, so his brother-in-law Arthur “Punch” Ochs Sulzberger took over. In 1961, Arthur Hays Sulzberger stepped down as publisher, three years after having suffered a stroke, giving the position to his son-in-law Orvil Dryfoos.

“Had The Times highlighted Nazi atrocities against Jews, or simply not buried certain stories, the nation might have awakened to the horror far sooner than it did,” Jones and Tifft wrote. Though The Times wasn’t the only paper to provide scant coverage of Nazi persecution of Jews, the fact that it did so had large implications, Alex Jones and Susan Tifft wrote in their 1999 book “The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times.” He went to great lengths to avoid having The Times branded a ‘Jewish newspaper.’”Īs a result, wrote Frankel, Sulzberger’s editorial page “was cool to all measures that might have singled out for rescue or even special attention.” “He thought they needed no state or political and social institutions of their own. “He believed strongly and publicly that Judaism was a religion, not a race or nationality - that Jews should be separate only in the way they worshiped,” Frankel wrote. Memoir of former executive editor of The New York Times, Max Frankel.

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