 They had twin sons, Stephen and Dan, born in 1954.At Yeshiva University, New York, there is a David W. Petegorsky chair of Political Science.This is a tribute to his memory by the Yeshiva College Alumni Association In 1957, the Women’s Division of the American Jewish Congress initiated the David Petegorsky Scholarship Awards which sent youth between the ages of 17 and 22 to Israel for 6 weeks on workshops

(1942) "Strategy for democracy", by J. Donald Kingsley and David W. Petegorsky, with chapters by Pierre Cot, Max Werner, Albert Gue rard, Oscar I. Janowsky [and] Mordecai Ezekiel ... New York, Toronto, Longmans, Green and co..

Ariel Hessayon on "Fabricating radical traditions"