Peter Novick
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "about". Template:DMCA Template:DMCA Peter Novick (July 26, 1934, Jersey City – February 17, 2012, Chicago)[1] was an American historian who was Professor of History at the University of Chicago.[1][2][3] He was best known for writing That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession and The Holocaust in American Life.[1] The latter title has also been published as The Holocaust and Collective Memory, especially for non-US anglophonic markets.
Major works
That Noble Dream
That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession questions the origins and prevalence of the notion of objectivity in current and 20th century history. It focuses on developments in university history departments within the United States, though it traces the concept of objectivity in history's origins back to 19th century Germany and Leopold von Ranke.[4]
The Holocaust in American Life
Jeffrey C. Alexander has examined Novick's "particularization of the Holocaust" in The Holocaust in American Life, he has contrasted his universalizing view of the Holocaust (that it can be a lesson for all peoples), versus what he perceives as Novick's inextricable connection of the genocide with nationalism and Jewish identity politics.[5]
Novick's thesis, that the Holocaust was largely ignored in the years after World War II due to Cold War concerns that encouraged a rapprochement with West Germany and a distaste among American Jews for the claiming of victim status, has been challenged in the years since his book was published, as for example by Hasia Diner in her book We Remember With Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, 1945-1962,[6] and in the anthology After the Holocaust: Challenging the Myth of Silence.[7]
Career
Novick founded the Jewish studies program at the University of Chicago.[8]
Personal life
Novick earned his bachelor's and doctoral degrees from Columbia University, in 1957 and 1965 respectively.[1]
Though deemed a precursor, Novick was a sharp critic of Norman Finkelstein, but also of Finkelstein's opponent Alan Dershowitz.[9] He died in 2012 in Chicago of lung cancer.
Bibliography
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- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.The Resistance versus Vichy: The Purge of Collaborators in Liberated France. New York: Columbia University Press. 1968.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession. Cambridge UP. 1988.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.The Holocaust in American life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1999.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Comments on Aleida Assmann's lecture : comment delivered at the Twentieth Annual Lecture of the GHI, November 16, 2006". Bulletin of the German Historical Institute. 40: 26–31. Spring 2007.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Assmann, Aleida (Spring 2007). "Response to Peter Novick". Bulletin of the German Historical Institute. 40: 33–38.
References
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- ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hevesi, Dennis (March 13, 2012). "Peter Novick, Wrote Controversial Book on Holocaust, Dies at 77". New York Times.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Peter Novick, celebrated scholar of history, 1934–2012". March 2, 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."In Memoriam | Alumni & Friends | University of Chicago". Archived from the original on May 31, 2014. Retrieved May 31, 2014.
- ^ Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession, (Cambridge University Press, 2007), 26–28.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jeffrey C. Alexander (2009). Remembering the Holocaust: A Debate. Oxford University Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-0195326222.
Whereas Novick describes a particularization of the Holocaust—its being captured by Jewish identity politics—I describe its universalization. Where Novick describes a nationalization, I trace internationalization.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Diner, Hasia (2009). We Remember With Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, 1945-1962. New York: New York University Press.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cesarani, David; Sundquist, Eric, eds. (2012). After the Holocaust: Challenging the Myth of Silence. Routledge.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kakutani, Michiko (August 17, 1999). "'The Holocaust in American Life': Taking Aim at the Symbolism of the Holocaust". New York Times.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kurtzman, Joey (May 8, 2007). "Novick Defends Finkelstein by Michael Weiss". Jewcy.com. Retrieved May 25, 2012.
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