Editing Midge Decter (section)

==Early life==
Decter was born in [[Saint Paul, Minnesota]], on July 25, 1927.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/decter-midge|title=The Encyclopedia of Jewish Women: Midge Decter|first1=Kirsten |last1=Fermaglich |website= [[Jewish Women's Archive]] |date=June 23, 2021 |accessdate=May 11, 2022}}</ref><ref name="NYT obit">{{cite news|title=Midge Decter, an Architect of Neoconservatism, Dies at 94|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/09/books/midge-decter-dead.html|first=Douglas|last=Martin|date=May 9, 2022|access-date=May 10, 2022|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> She was the youngest of three daughters of Rose (née Calmenson) and Harry Rosenthal, a sporting goods merchant.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hyman |first1=Paula |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gEj0oLYK10sC&dq=Midge+Rosenthal+Decter&pg=PA322 |title=Jewish Women in America: A-L |last2=Moore |first2=Deborah Dash |last3=Weisbard |first3=Phyllis Holman |last4=Society |first4=American Jewish Historical |date=January 1, 1998 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-91934-0 |via=Google Books |accessdate=April 12, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/currentbiogr198200mori|url-access=registration|quote=Midge Rosenthal Decter.|title=Current Biography Yearbook|date=April 12, 1982|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|accessdate=April 12, 2018|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Her family was middle-class and Jewish.<ref>{{cite book | last = Swain | first = Carol | title = Contemporary voices of white nationalism in America | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge, UK New York | year = 2003 | isbn = 978-0521016933 | page = [https://archive.org/details/contemporaryvoic00swai/page/81 81] | url = https://archive.org/details/contemporaryvoic00swai/page/81 }} Note: this quote is from the authors' introductory essay, not from the interviews.</ref><ref name=":0" /> She attended the [[University of Minnesota]] for one year, the [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]] from 1946 to 1948, and [[New York University]], but did not graduate from any of them.<ref name="NYT obit"/><ref name="WP obit">{{cite news|title=Midge Decter, social critic and leader of neoconservative movement, dies at 94|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/neoconservative-leader-midge-decter-dead/2022/05/09/5fb61130-47fe-11e8-9072-f6d4bc32f223_story.html|first=Judi|last=Hasson|date=May 9, 2022|access-date=May 10, 2022|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref>  She initially identified as a [[Modern liberalism in the United States|liberal]] on the [[political spectrum]].<ref name="NYT obit"/><ref name=AP>{{cite news|title=Midge Decter, leading neo-conservative, dead at 94|url=https://apnews.com/article/new-york-manhattan-race-and-ethnicity-gay-rights-919dd2694b88974a4cbc8756ef5bc6cf|first=Hillel|last=Italie|date=May 10, 2022|access-date=May 10, 2022|work= [[Associated Press]] {AP} }}</ref>