Editing David Horowitz (section)

==Early life and education==
Born in the [[Forest Hills, Queens|Forest Hills]] neighborhood of [[Queens]], a [[Boroughs of New York City|borough of New York City]],{{sfn|Horowitz|2011|p=25}}<ref name=Jacobson>{{citation|last=Jacobson|first=Jennifer|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070501091430/http://chronicle.com/weekly/v51/i35/35a00801.htm|archive-date=May 1, 2007|title=What Makes David Run|work=[[The Chronicle of Higher Education]]|volume=51|issue=35|date=May 6, 2005|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/What-Makes-David-Run/31473|pages=A9–A11|access-date=August 21, 2018|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Horowitz was the son of Jewish high school teachers Phil and Blanche Horowitz. His father taught [[English studies|English]] and his mother taught [[Shorthand|stenography]].{{sfn|Horowitz|2011|p=25}} His mother's family emigrated from [[Russian Empire|Imperial Russia]] in the mid-19th century, and his father's family left Russia in 1905 during a time of [[Pogroms in the Russian Empire|anti-Jewish pogroms]]. Horowitz's paternal grandfather lived in [[Mazyr|Mozir]], a city in modern [[Belarus]], prior to leaving for the U.S.{{sfn|Horowitz|2011|pp=7–12}} In 1940, the family moved to the [[Long Island City]] section of Queens.{{sfn|Horowitz|2011|p=25}}

During years of labor organizing and the [[Great Depression]], Phil and Blanche Horowitz were long-standing members of the [[Communist Party of the United States of America]] and strong supporters of [[Joseph Stalin]]. They left the party after [[Nikita Khrushchev]] published his report in 1956 about Stalin's crimes and his terrorism against the Soviet population.{{sfn|Horowitz|2011|pp=39–40}}{{sfn|Horowitz|2011|p=83–84}}

Horowitz received a Bachelor of Arts from [[Columbia University]] in 1959, majoring in English, and a master's degree in English literature at [[University of California, Berkeley]] in 1961.<ref>{{Cite book|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=ZzQVpPvlVMcC}}|title=American Dissidents: An Encyclopedia of Activists, Subversives, and Prisoners of Conscience|last=Gay|first=Kathlyn|date=2012|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-59884-764-2|language=en|page=303}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Smith |first=Chris A. |date=March 26, 2019 |title=The Strange Case of Ex-Radical David Horowitz |url=https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/spring-2019/strange-case-of-ex-radical-david-horowitz/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408144812/https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/spring-2019/strange-case-of-ex-radical-david-horowitz/ |archive-date=April 8, 2019 |magazine=[[California Magazine]] |access-date=2 May 2025}}</ref>