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| peter novick the holocaust in american life: The Holocaust in American Life Peter Novick, 2000 An award-winning history scholar explores the impact of the Holocaust in American political and cultural life, examining its role as a moral reference point for all Americans and the ways in which Jews have used it to define a distinctive identity for themselves. Tour. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: The Holocaust In American Life Peter Novick, 2000-09-20 Prize-winning historian Peter Novick illuminates the reasons Americans ignored the Holocaust for so long -- how dwelling on German crimes interfered with Cold War mobilization; how American Jews, not wanting to be thought of as victims, avoided the subject. He explores in absorbing detail the decisions that later moved the Holocaust to the center of American life: Jewish leaders invoking its memory to muster support for Israel and to come out on top in a sordid competition over what group had suffered most; politicians using it to score points with Jewish voters. With insight and sensitivity, Novick raises searching questions about these developments. Have American Jews, by making the Holocaust the emblematic Jewish experience, given Hitler a posthumous victory, tacitly endorsing his definition of Jews as despised pariahs? Does the Holocaust really teach useful lessons and sensitize us to atrocities, or, by making the Holocaust the measure, does it make lesser crimes seem not so bad? What are we to make of the fact that while Americans spend hundreds of millions of dollars for museums recording a European crime, there is no museum of American slavery? |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: The Holocaust in American Life Peter Novick, 1999 |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: The Holocaust and Collective Memory Peter Novick, 2001 In a book which continues to provide heated debate, Novick asks whether defining Jewishness in terms of victimhood alone does not hand Hitler a posthumous victory, and whether claiming uniqueness for the Holocaust does not diminish atrocities like Biafra, Rwanda or Kosovo. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: That Noble Dream Peter Novick, 1988-09-30 The aspiration to relate the past 'as it really happened' has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this remarkable history of the profession, Peter Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity were elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the last century. Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writings of hundreds of American historians from J. Franklin Jameson and Charles Beard to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Eugene Genovese, That Noble Dream is a richly textured account of what American historians have thought they were doing, or ought to be doing, when they wrote history - how their principles influenced their practice and practical exigencies influenced their principles. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: The Resistance Versus Vichy Peter Novick, 1968 Vichy France, officially the French State (État français), was France during the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain, during World War II, from the German victory in the Battle of France (July 1940) to the Allied liberation in August 1944. Following the defeat in June 1940, President Albert Lebrun appointed Marshal Pétain as Premier of France. After making peace with Germany, Pétain and his government voted to reorganize the discredited Third Republic into an authoritarian regime.--Wikipedia. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: Ex-Friends Norman Podhoretz, 2001-05-13 Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer -- all are ex-friends of Norman Podhoretz, the renowned editor and critic and leading member of the group of New York intellectuals who came to be known as the Family. As only a family member could, Podhoretz tells the story of these friendships, once central to his life, and shows how the political and cultural struggles of the past fifty years made them impossible to sustain. With wit, piercing insight, and startling honesty, we are introduced as never before to a type of person for whom ideas were often matters of life and death, and whose passing from the scene has left so large a gap in American culture. Podhoretz was the trailblazer of the now-famous journey of a number of his fellow intellectuals from radicalism to conservatism -- a journey through which they came to exercise both cultural and political influence far beyond their number. With this fascinating account of his once happy and finally troubled relations with these cultural icons, Podhoretz helps us understand why that journey was undertaken and just how consequential it became. In the process we get a brilliantly illuminating picture of the writers and intellectuals who have done so much to shape our world. Combining a personal memoir with literary, social, and political history, this unique gallery of stern and affectionate portraits is as entertaining as a novel and at the same time more instructive about postwar American culture than a formal scholarly study. Interwoven with these tales of some of the most quixotic and scintillating of contemporary American thinkers are themes that are introduced, developed, and redeveloped in a variety of contexts, with each appearance enriching the others, like a fugue in music. It is all here: the perversity of brilliance; the misuse of the mind; the benightedness of people usually considered especially enlightened; their human foibles and olympian detachment; the rigors to be endured and the prizes to be won and the prices to be paid for the reflective life. Most people live their lives in a very different way, and at one point, in a defiantly provocative defense of the indifference shown to the things by which intellectuals are obsessed, Norman Podhoretz says that Socrates' assertion that the unexamined life was not worth living was one of the biggest lies ever propagated by a philosopher. And yet, one comes away from Ex-Friends feeling wistful for a day when ideas really mattered and when there were people around who cared more deeply about them than about anything else. Reading of a time when the finest minds of a generation regularly gathered in New York living rooms to debate one another with an articulateness, a passion, and a level of erudition almost extinct, we come to realize how enviable it can be to live a life as poignantly and purposefully examined as Norman Podhoretz's is in Ex-Friends. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950-1970 Eli Lederhendler, 2001-11-01 The first book-length study of Jewish culture and ethnicity in New York City after World War II. Here is an intriguing look at the cause and effect of New York City politics and culture in the 1950s and 1960s and the inner life of one of the city's largest ethnic religious groups. The New York Jewish mystique has always been tied to the , fabric and fortunes of the city, as has the community's social aspirations, political inclinations, and its very notion of Jewishness itself. All this, points out Eli Lederhendler, came into question as the life of the city changed. Insightfully and meticulously he explores the decline of secular Jewish ethnic culture, the growth of Jewish religious factions, and the rise of a more assertive ethnocentrism. Using memoirs, essays, news items, and data on suburbanization, religion, and race relations, the book analyzes the decline of the metropolis in the 1960s, increasing clashes between Jews and African Americans. and postwar transiency of neighborhood-based ethnic awareness. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: Moral Philosophy and the Holocaust Eve Garrard, Geoffrey Scarre, 2003 How far can we ever hope to understand the Holocaust? What can we reasonably say about right and wrong, moral responsibility, praise and blame, in a world where ordinary reasons seem to be excluded? In the century of Nazism, ethical writing in English had much more to say about the meaning of the word `good` than about the material reality of evil. This book seeks to redress the balance at the start of a new century. Despite intense interest in the Holocaust, there has been relatively little exploration of it by philosophers in the analytic tradition. Although ethical writers often refer to Nazism as a touchstone example of evil, and use it as a case by which moral theorising can be tested, they rarely analyse what evil amounts to, or address the substantive moral questions raised by the Holocaust itself. This book draws together new work by leading moral philosophers to present a wide range of perspectives on the Holocaust. Contributors focus on particular themes of central importance, including: moral responsibility for genocide; the moral uniqueness of the Holocaust; responding to extreme evil; the role of ideology; the moral psychology of perpetrators and victims of genocide; forgiveness and the Holocaust; and the impact of the `Final Solution` on subsequent culture. Topics are treated with the precision and rigour characteristic of analytic philosophy. Scholars, teachers and students with an interest in moral theory, applied ethics, genocide and Holocaust studies will find this book of particular value, as will all those seeking greater insight into ethical issues surrounding Nazism, race-hatred and intolerance. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: Selling the Holocaust Tim Cole, 2017-09-29 Cole shows us an Auschwitz-land where tourists have become the ultimate ruberneckers passing by and gazing at someone else's tragedy. He shows us a US Holocaust Museum that provides visitors with a virtual Holocaust experience. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: The Case for Israel Alan Dershowitz, 2011-01-06 The Case for Israel is an ardent defense of Israel's rights, supported by indisputable evidence. Presents a passionate look at what Israel's accusers and detractors are saying about this war-torn country. Dershowitz accuses those who attack Israel of international bigotry and backs up his argument with hard facts. Widely respected as a civil libertarian, legal educator, and defense attorney extraordinaire, Alan Dershowitz has also been a passionate though not uncritical supporter of Israel. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: The Era of the Witness Annette Wieviorka, 2006 What is the role of the survivor testimony in Holocaust remembrance? In this book, a concise, rigorously argued, and provocative work of cultural and intellectual history, the author seeks to answer this surpassingly complex question. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: Out of Chaos Elaine Saphier Fox, 2013-08-31 The stories in Out of Chaos forms a profound testament to lost and found lives that are translated into compelling reading. The collection illuminates brief or elongated moments, fragments of memory and experience, what the great Holocaust writer Ida Fink called “a scrap of time.” In all, the anthology expresses survivors’ memories and reactions to a wide range of experiences as they survived in so many European settings, from Holland, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Greece, Yugoslavia, Poland, and France. The writers recall being on the run between different countries, escaping over mountains, hiding and even sometimes forgetting their Jewish identities in convents and rescuers’ homes and hovels, basements and attics. Some were left on their own; others found themselves embroiled in rescuer family conflicts. Some writers chose to write story clusters, each one capturing a moment or incident and often disconnected by memory or temporal and spatial divides. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: Buried by the Times Laurel Leff, 2005-03-21 Publisher Description |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism Gilbert Achcar, 2013-08-08 In this collection of essays, Gilbert Achcar examines the controversial relationship of Marxism to religion, to Orientalism and its critique by Edward Said, and to the concept of cosmopolitanism. A compelling range of issues is discussed within these pages, including a comparative assessment of Christian liberation theology and Islamic fundamentalism; Orientalism in reverse, which can take the form of an apology for Islamic fundamentalism; the evolution of Marx's appraisal of non-Western societies; and the vagaries of cosmopolitanism up to our present era of globalisation. Erudite and incisive, these essays provide a major contribution to the critical discussion of Marxism, Orientalism and cosmopolitanism, and illuminate the relationships between all three. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: Why?: Explaining the Holocaust Peter Hayes, 2017-01-17 Featured in the PBS documentary, The US and the Holocaust by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein Superbly written and researched, synthesizing the classics while digging deep into a vast repository of primary sources. —Josef Joffe, Wall Street Journal Why? explores one of the most tragic events in human history by addressing eight of the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust: Why the Jews? Why the Germans? Why murder? Why this swift and sweeping? Why didn’t more Jews fight back more often? Why did survival rates diverge? Why such limited help from outside? What legacies, what lessons? An internationally acclaimed scholar, Peter Hayes brings a wealth of research and experience to bear on conventional views of the Holocaust, dispelling many misconceptions and challenging some of the most prominent recent interpretations. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: The Bombing of Auschwitz Michael J. Neufeld, Michael Berenbaum, 2003 Could the Allies have prevented the deaths of tens of thousands of Holocaust victims? Inspired by a conference held to mark the opening of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, this book brings together the key contributions to this debate. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: Preserving Memory Edward Tabor Linenthal, 2001 This behind-the-scenes account details the emotionally complex fifteen-year struggle surrounding the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's birth.-- |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: The Jewish Divide Over Israel Edward Alexander, Paul Bogdanor, 2011-12-31 Before 1967, Israel had the overwhelming support of world opinion. So long as Israel's existence was in harmony with politically correct assumptions, it was supported, or at least accepted, by the majority of progressive Jews, especially in the wake of the Holocaust. This is no longer the case. The Jewish Divide Over Israel explains the role played by prominent Jews in turning Israel into an isolated pariah nation. After their catastrophic defeat in 1967, Arabs overcame inferiority on the battlefield with superiority in the war of ideas. Their propaganda stopped trumpeting their desire to eradicate Israel. Instead, in a calculated appeal to liberals and radicals, they redefined their war of aggression against the Jews as a struggle for the liberation of Palestinian Arabs. The tenacity of Arabs' rejection of Israel and their relentless campaign--in schools, universities, churches, professional organizations, and, above all, the news media--to destroy Israel's moral image had the desired impact. Many Jewish liberals became desperate to escape from the shadow of Israel's alleged misdeeds and found a way to do so by joining other members of the left in blaming Israeli sins for Arab violence. Today, Jewish liberals rationalize violence against the innocent as resistance to the oppressor, excuse Arab extremism as the frustration of a wronged party, and redefine eliminationist rhetoric and physical assaults on Jews as criticism of Israeli policy. Israel's Jewish accusers have played a crucial and disproportionate role in the current upsurge of antisemitism precisely because they speak as Jews. The essays in this book seek to understand and throw back the assault on Israel led by such Jewish liberals and radicals as Tony Judt, Noam Chomsky, George Steiner, Daniel Boyarin, Marc Ellis, Israel Shahak, and many others. Its writers demonstrate that the foundation of the state of Israel, far from being the primal sin alleged by its accusers, was one of the few redeeming events in a century of blood and shame. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: Response to Modernity Michael A. Meyer, 1995-04-01 Comprehensive and balanced history of the Reform Movement. The movement for religious reform in modern Judaism represents one of the most significant phenomena in Jewish history during the last two hundred years. It introduced new theological conceptions and innovations in liturgy and religious practice that affected millions of Jews, first in central and Western Europe and later in the United States. Today Reform Judaism is one of the three major branches of Jewish faith. Bringing to life the ideas, issues, and personalities that have helped to shape modern Jewry, Response to Modernity offers a comprehensive and balanced history of the Reform Movement, tracing its changing configuration and self-understanding from the beginnings of modernization in late 18th century Jewish thought and practice through Reform's American renewal in the 1970s. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: Still Alive Ruth Kluger, 2003-04-01 A controversial bestseller likened to Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, Still Alive is a harrowing and fiercely bittersweet Holocaust memoir of survival: a book of breathtaking honesty and extraordinary insight (Los Angeles Times). Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. By age eleven, she had been deported, along with her mother, to Theresienstadt, the first in a series of concentration camps which would become the setting for her precarious childhood. Interwoven with blunt, unsparing observations of childhood and nuanced reflections of an adult who has spent a lifetime thinking about the Holocaust, Still Alive rejects all easy assumptions about history, both political and personal. Whether describing the abuse she met at her own mother's hand, the life-saving generosity of a woman SS aide in Auschwitz, the foibles and prejudices of Allied liberators, or the cold shoulder offered by her relatives when she and her mother arrived as refugees in New York, Kluger sees and names an unexpected reality which has little to do with conventional wisdom or morality tales. Among the reasons that Still Alive is such an important book is its insistence that the full texture of women's existence in the Holocaust be acknowledged, not merely as victims. . . . [Kluger] insists that we look at the Holocaust as honestly as we can, which to her means being unsentimental about the oppressed as well as about their oppressors. —Washington Post Book World |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: FDR and the Jews Richard Breitman, Allan J. Lichtman, 2013-03-19 Nearly seventy-five years after World War II, a contentious debate lingers over whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned his back on the Jews of Hitler's Europe. Defenders claim that FDR saved millions of potential victims by defeating Nazi Germany. Others revile him as morally indifferent and indict him for keeping America's gates closed to Jewish refugees and failing to bomb Auschwitz's gas chambers. In an extensive examination of this impassioned debate, Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman find that the president was neither savior nor bystander. In FDR and the Jews, they draw upon many new primary sources to offer an intriguing portrait of a consummate politician-compassionate but also pragmatic-struggling with opposing priorities under perilous conditions. For most of his presidency Roosevelt indeed did little to aid the imperiled Jews of Europe. He put domestic policy priorities ahead of helping Jews and deferred to others' fears of an anti-Semitic backlash. Yet he also acted decisively at times to rescue Jews, often withstanding contrary pressures from his advisers and the American public. Even Jewish citizens who petitioned the president could not agree on how best to aid their co-religionists abroad. Though his actions may seem inadequate in retrospect, the authors bring to light a concerned leader whose efforts on behalf of Jews were far greater than those of any other world figure. His moral position was tempered by the political realities of depression and war, a conflict all too familiar to American politicians in the twenty-first century. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: Orthodox Jews in America Jeffrey S. Gurock, 2009-03-26 Although there are many good books on the history of Jews in America and a smaller subset that focuses on aspects of Orthodox Judaism in contemporary times, no one, until now, has written an overview of how Orthodoxy in America has evolved over the centuries from the first arrivals in the 17th century to the present. This broad overview by Gurock (Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History, Yeshiva Univ.; Judaism's Encounter with American Sports) is distinctive in examining how Orthodox Jews have coped with the personal, familial, and communal challenges of religious freedom, economic opportunity, and social integration, as well as uncovering historical reactionary tensions to alternative Jewish movements in multicultural and pluralistic America. Gurock raises penetrating questions about the compatibility of modern culture with pious practices and sensitively explores the relationship of feminism to traditional Orthodox Judaism. There are several excellent reference sources on Orthodox Jews in America, e.g., Rabbi Moshe D. Sherman's outstanding Orthodox Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook, to which this is an accessible and illuminating companion; recommended not only for serious readers on the topic but for general readers as well.David B. Levy, Touro Coll. Women's Seminary Lib., Brooklyn, NY Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: American Responses to the Holocaust Hans Krabbendam, Derek Rubin, 2017 This collection puts the topic of Jewish Studies and Holocaust Studies in a new American Studies perspective. This perspective compares the similarities and differences in responses and their transatlantic interaction. As the Holocaust grew into an important factor in American culture, it also became a subject of American Studies, both as a window on American trends and as a topic to which outsiders responded. When Americans responded to information on the early signs of the Holocaust, they were dependent on European official and informal sources. Some were confirmed, others were contradicted; some were ignored, others provoked a response. This book follows the chronology of this transatlantic exchange, including the alleged abandonment of the Jews in Europe and the post-war attention to the Holocaust victims. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: We Remember with Reverence and Love Hasia R. Diner, 2010-10-03 It has become an accepted truth: after World War II, American Jews chose to be silent about the mass murder of millions of their European brothers and sisters at the hands of the Nazis. In a compelling work sure to draw fire from academics and pundits alike, Hasia R. Diner shows this assumption of silence to be categorically false. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: A Holocaust Controversy Samuel Moyn, 2005 A provocative study of a French Holocaust controversy of the 1960s and the dynamics of postwar memory. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: Our American Israel Amy Kaplan, 2018-09-17 An essential account of America’s most controversial alliance that reveals how the United States came to see Israel as an extension of itself, and how that strong and divisive partnership plays out in our own time. Our American Israel tells the story of how a Jewish state in the Middle East came to resonate profoundly with a broad range of Americans in the twentieth century. Beginning with debates about Zionism after World War II, Israel’s identity has been entangled with America’s belief in its own exceptional nature. Now, in the twenty-first century, Amy Kaplan challenges the associations underlying this special alliance. Through popular narratives expressed in news media, fiction, and film, a shared sense of identity emerged from the two nations’ histories as settler societies. Americans projected their own origin myths onto Israel: the biblical promised land, the open frontier, the refuge for immigrants, the revolt against colonialism. Israel assumed a mantle of moral authority, based on its image as an “invincible victim,” a nation of intrepid warriors and concentration camp survivors. This paradox persisted long after the Six-Day War, when the United States rallied behind a story of the Israeli David subduing the Arab Goliath. The image of the underdog shattered when Israel invaded Lebanon and Palestinians rose up against the occupation. Israel’s military was strongly censured around the world, including notes of dissent in the United States. Rather than a symbol of justice, Israel became a model of military strength and technological ingenuity. In America today, Israel’s political realities pose difficult challenges. Turning a critical eye on the turbulent history that bound the two nations together, Kaplan unearths the roots of present controversies that may well divide them in the future. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: The Memory Monster Yishai Sarid, 2020-09-08 The controversial English-language debut of celebrated Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid is a harrowing, ironic parable of how we reckon with human horror, in which a young, present-day historian becomes consumed by the memory of the Holocaust. Written as a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel’s memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, our unnamed narrator recounts his own undoing. Hired as a promising young historian, he soon becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination at concentration camps in Poland during World War II and guides tours through the sites for students and visiting dignitaries. He hungrily devours every detail of life and death in the camps and takes pride in being able to recreate for his audience the excruciating last moments of the victims’ lives. The job becomes a mission, and then an obsession. Spending so much time immersed in death, his connections with the living begin to deteriorate. He resents the students lost in their iPhones, singing sentimental songs, not expressing sufficient outrage at the genocide committed by the Nazis. In fact, he even begins to detect, in the students as well as himself, a hint of admiration for the murderers—their efficiency, audacity, and determination. Force is the only way to resist force, he comes to think, and one must be prepared to kill. With the perspicuity of Kafka’s The Trial and the obsessions of Delillo’s White Noise, The Memory Monster confronts difficult questions that are all too relevant to Israel and the world today: How do we process human brutality? What makes us choose sides in conflict? And how do we honor the memory of horror without becoming consumed by it? Praise for The Memory Monster: “Award-winning Israeli novelist Sarid’s latest work is a slim but powerful novel, rendered beautifully in English by translator Greenspan…. Propelled by the narrator’s distinctive voice, the novel is an original variation on one of the most essential themes of post-Holocaust literature: While countless writers have asked the question of where, or if, humanity can be found within the profoundly inhumane, Sarid incisively shows how preoccupation and obsession with the inhumane can take a toll on one’s own humanity…. it is, if not an indictment of Holocaust memorialization, a nuanced and trenchant consideration of its layered politics. Ultimately, Sarid both refuses to apologize for Jewish rage and condemns the nefarious forms it sometimes takes. A bold, masterful exploration of the banality of evil and the nature of revenge, controversial no matter how it is read.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review “[A] record of a breakdown, an impassioned consideration of memory and its risks, and a critique of Israel’s use of the Holocaust to shape national identity…. Sarid’s unrelenting examination of how narratives of the Holocaust are shaped makes for much more than the average confessional tale.” —Publishers Weekly “Reading The Memory Monster, which is written as a report to the director of Yad Vashem, felt like both an extremely intimate experience and an eerily clinical Holocaust history lesson. Perfectly treading the fine line between these two approaches, Sarid creates a haunting exploration of collective memory and an important commentary on humanity. How do we remember the Holocaust? What tolls do we pay to carry on memory? This book hit me viscerally, emotionally, and personally. The Memory Monster is brief, but in its short account Sarid manages to lay bare the tensions between memory and morals, history and nationalism, humanity and victimhood. An absolute must-read.” —Julia DeVarti, Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI) “In Yishai Sarid’s dark, thoughtful novel The Memory Monster, a Holocaust historian struggles with the weight of his profession…. The Memory Monster is a novel that pulls no punches in its exploration of the responsibility—and the cost—of holding vigil over the past.” —Eileen Gonzalez, Foreword Reviews |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: Black Dogs Ian McEwan, 2010-07-20 Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Black Dogs is the intimate story of the crumbling of Bernard and June Tremaine’s marriage, as witnessed by their son-in-law, Jeremy, who seeks to comprehend how their deep love could be defeated by ideological differences that seem irreconcilable. In writing June’s memoirs, Jeremy is led back to a moment, that was, for June, as devastating and irreversible in its consequences as the changes sweeping Europe in Jeremy’s own time. Ian McEwan weaves the sinister reality of civilization’s darkest moods—its black dogs—with the tensions that both create love and destroy it. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010 Robert Gordon, 2012-07-11 The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010 is the first major study of how postwar Italy confronted, or failed to confront, the Holocaust. Fascist Italy was the model for Nazi Germany, and Mussolini was Hitler's prime ally in the Second World War. But Italy also became a theater of war and a victim of Nazi persecution after 1943, as resistance, collaboration, and civil war raged. Many thousands of Italians—Jews and others—were deported to concentration camps throughout Europe. After the war, Italian culture produced a vast array of stories, images, and debate through which it came to terms with the Holocaust's difficult legacy. Gordon probes a rich range of cultural material as he paints a picture of this shared encounter with the darkest moment of twentieth-century history. His book explores aspects of Italian national identity and memory, offering a new model for analyzing the interactions between national and international images of the Holocaust. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares Kirsten Fermaglich, 2007 A unique contribution to America's encounter with Holocaust memory that links the use of Nazi imagery to liberal politics |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: Remembering for the Future J. Roth, E. Maxwell, 2017-02-13 Focused on 'The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide', Remembering for the Future brings together the work of nearly 200 scholars from more than 30 countries and features cutting-edge scholarship across a range of disciplines, amounting to the most extensive and powerful reassessment of the Holocaust ever undertaken. In addition to its international scope, the project emphasizes that varied disciplinary perspectives are needed to analyze and to check the genocidal forces that have made the Twentieth century so deadly. Historians and ethicists, psychologists and literary scholars, political scientists and theologians, sociologists and philosophers - all of these, and more, bring their expertise to bear on the Holocaust and genocide. Their contributions show the new discoveries that are being made and the distinctive approaches that are being developed in the study of genocide, focusing both on archival and oral evidence, and on the religious and cultural representation of the Holocaust. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: Post-Holocaust Berel Lang, 2005 A philosopher addresses conceptual and ethical questions that arise from historical accounts of the Holocaust. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: How I Stopped Being a Jew Shlomo Sand, 2014-10-07 Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person’s camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even that of a “secular Jew.” With this meditative and thoughtful mixture of essay and personal recollection, he articulates the problems at the center of modern Jewish identity. How I Stopped Being a Jew discusses the negative effects of the Israeli exploitation of the “chosen people” myth and its “holocaust industry.” Sand criticizes the fact that, in the current context, what “Jewish” means is, above all, not being Arab and reflects on the possibility of a secular, non-exclusive Israeli identity, beyond the legends of Zionism. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: Memory in a Global Age A. Assmann, S. Conrad, 2010-07-21 A significant contribution to memory studies and part of an emergent strand of work on global memory. This book offers important insights on topics relating to memory, globalization, international politics, international relations, Holocaust studies and media and communication studies. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: Margit's Story Margit Meissner, 2003 Meissner was born in 1922 in Innsbruck to a Jewish family, as Margit Morawetz; soon afterwards, the family moved to Prague. Her father died in 1932. Pt. 2 (pp. 83-125), Refugee, deals with the Holocaust. Following the Anschluss in Austria and the Munich Agreement in 1938, the family decided to leave Czechoslovakia. In mid-1938 Margit went to Paris to study in a dressmaking school, and was soon joined by her mother Lilly. Margit's brother, Bruno, emigrated to Canada in 1940, and her brothers Felix and Paul left for the USA and Australia respectively. After the war began, Lilly was interned by the French in Gurs; with the capitulation of France she was freed from the camp. Margit and Lilly crossed the border into Spain, were arrested and imprisoned, and later released. In September 1940 they arrived in Portugal, and in April 1941 they emigrated to the USA. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: Holocaust City Tim Cole, 2013-10-18 Drawing from the ideas of critical geography and based on extensive archival research, Cole brilliantly reconstructs the formation of the Jewish ghetto during the Holocaust, focusing primarily on the ghetto in Budapest, Hungary--one of the largest created during the war, but rarely examined. Cole maps the city illustrating how spaces--cafes, theaters, bars, bathhouses--became divided in two. Throughout the book, Cole discusses how the creation of this Jewish ghetto, just like the others being built across occupied Europe, tells us a great deal about the nature of Nazism, what life was like under Nazi-occupation, and the role the ghetto actually played in the Final Solution. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: The Final Solution Donald Bloxham, 2009-09-10 The first ever study to combine a detailed re-appraisal of the development of the genocide of Europe's Jews with full consideration of Nazi policies against other population groups and a comparative analysis of other genocides from the twentieth century. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: The Shoemaker and the Tea Party Alfred F. Young, Alfred Young, 2001-01-17 George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the Revolutionary ear fifty years after the actual event, this 'common man' in his nineties was 'discovered' and celebrated in Boston as a national hero. Young pieces together this extraordinary tale, adding new insights about the role that individual and collective memory play in shaping our understanding of history. |
| peter novick the holocaust in american life: Women's Holocaust Writing S. Lillian Kremer, 1999 Women's Holocaust Writing extends Holocaust and literary studies by examining women's artistic representations of female Holocaust experiences, as given voice by Cynthia Ozick, Ilona Karmel, Elzbieta Ettinger, Hana Demetz, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Norma Rosen, and Marge Piercy. Through close, insightful reading of fiction, S. Lillian Kremer explores Holocaust representations in works distinguished by the power of their literary expression and attention to women's diverse experiences. She draws upon history, psychology, women's studies, literary analysis, and interviews with authors to compare writing by eyewitnesses working from memory with that by remote witnesses through the imagination. |
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18 Aug 2017 · American experience. 2 America’s adoption of European Jewish history is part of a process by which the story of the Holocaust—and America’s presumed role in ending it—is incorporated into “the fundamental tale of pluralism, tolerance, democracy, and human rights that America tells about itself.”3 Peter Novick
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the American Jewish community and the larger American public alleg-edly follow. "Allegedly," because the three basic conclusions to which Novick lays claim do not in fact follow from his premises: 1. Question: What is the place of the Holocaust in American life? Answer: Large. Too large. For American Jewish life, much too large. 2.
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The Holocaust in American Life Peter Novick,2000 An award winning history scholar explores the impact of the Holocaust in American political and cultural life examining its role as a moral reference point for all Americans and the ways in which Jews have used it to define
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The Holocaust in American Life: A Journey Through Memory and Meaning Peter Novick's seminal work, "The Holocaust in American Life," is a profound exploration of how the Holocaust has been remembered, understood, and utilized within American culture. This book, published in 1999, provides a critical lens through
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28 May 2018 · rary uS culture as Peter Novick, Norman Finkelstein, Lilian Friedberg and Ward Churchill.5 As a rule, then, to argue that the Holocaust functions as a kind of screen memory is to imply that there is an unconscious and unacknowl-edged comparison between the Holocaust and a more distressing local
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15 May 2001 · A Time For Healing: American Jewry Since World War II (Baltimore, 1992), 212-17; Deborah Lipstadt, "America and the Memory of the Holocaust, 1950-1965," Modern Judaism 16, no. 3 (October 1996): 195-214; Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life (Boston, 1999); and Alan Mintz, Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust
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3. Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999), 144. 4. Annette Wieviorka, L'ere du Timoin ([Paris]: Plon, 1998), 79. 5. This paragraph draws on my discussion in Michael Rothberg, "The Work of Testimony in the Age of Decolonization: Chronicle of a Summer, Cinema Verite, and the Emergence of the Holocaust
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On Peter Novick's The Holocaust in American Life A Review by Eli Lederhendler o one who has given any serious thought to the subject of how, why, or to what extent we can or should incorporate the Holocaust into our historical awareness and cultural expres-sion can approach Peter Novick's valuable book with indifference.'
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15 May 2001 · A Time For Healing: American Jewry Since World War II (Baltimore, 1992), 212-17; Deborah Lipstadt, "America and the Memory of the Holocaust, 1950-1965," Modern Judaism 16, no. 3 (October 1996): 195-214; Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life (Boston, 1999); and Alan Mintz, Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust
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repressed. Peter Novick, in his important history of the changing attitudes to the Judeocide, The Holocaust in American Life, writes that, ‘the Holocaust wasn’t talked about very much in the United States through the end of the 1950s. [. . .] it’s been talked about a lot since the end of the 1970s’ (Novick 1999, p. 127). From the point of
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Peter Novick,1997 The Holocaust In American Life Peter Novick,2000-09-20 Prize winning historian Peter Novick illuminates the reasons Americans ignored the Holocaust for so long how dwelling on German crimes interfered with Cold War mobilization how American Jews not wanting to be thought of as victims avoided the subject He explores in ...
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The Holocaust in American Life Peter Novick,1999 The Holocaust and Collective Memory Peter Novick,2001 In a book which continues to provide heated debate, Novick asks whether defining Jewishness in terms of victimhood alone does not hand Hitler a posthumous victory, and whether claiming uniqueness for the ...
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Peter Novick T am, of course, pleased that Eli Lederhendler had so many compli-mentary things to say about The Holocaust in American Life. In my response I'll "accentuate the negative": concentrate on points of disagreement in the interests of a fruitful engagement.
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Peter Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Chicago I we About the Holocaust Peter Novick, author of the widely acclaimed book, The Holocaust in American Life, reflects on the meanings of such concepts of Holocaust discourse as incomprehensibility, uniqueness, trauma, and memory. September 5, 2001 Wednesday 7:30 pm
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102 Joseph Kary / Holocaust Journalism In 1950s Toronto: The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, and The Vochenblatt A Historical Debate The most extreme claim of post-war silence was advanced in Peter Novick’s The Holocaust in American Life4 He asserted that the Holocaust was not a topic of . interest for Americans in the postwar period, Jewish or not, except among …
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1950), and currently stressed by historians such as Peter Novick (The Holocaust in American Life, 1999). Ivo Andric’s The Bridge Over the Drina (1977 [1945]) serves as the central emblem of loss and retention of collective memory as armies contest the Central Balkans.
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Reading: Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life, 1-263 For this class, you should prepare a 500-word reading response on Novick’s book that summarizes the author’s central thesis and raises some criticisms and/or questions for further consideration. October 3: Lost Cause, Bloody Shirt, and other Memories
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4 Peter Novick The Holocaust In American Life 2023-05-19 nearly 1,000 memorial books published. The texts describe daily life in the shtetl as well as everyday life during the Holocaust and the experiences of returning survivors. 26 photos. Die Holocaust-Industrie Indiana University Press Ein kritischer Blick auf die Entschädigung
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why now?" (See, for example, Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life [Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999].) Finkelstein argues, against the grain, that this interest is "a tribute not to Jewish suffering but to Jewish aggrandizement" (p. 8). He documents economic exploitation by the Holocaust Industry, which he calls an "outright extor
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Books like Peter Novick’s The Holocaust in American Life or Gary Weissman’s Fantasies of Witnessing have offered academics a thick vocabulary for criticizing North American Holocaust commemoration practices, educational ... film and the 2013 life story is the American camp director, Rachel Green Rotters-man, or Mrs. Murray as she is called ...
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1 Apr 2023 · a period that Peter Novick has seen as“years of transition” as far as American Holocaust consciousness is concerned.4 Surprisingly, Novick deals with neither the novel nor the film in thepages of his provocative history of the shifting representation of the Holocaust i n post-war America. Howeverr, these texts are useful in exploring
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very successful projects preceded that aimed to preserve the memory of the Holocaust in American culture such as the TV series Holocaust or the opening of the National Memorial Museum in 1993. This process of integrating the Holocaust as an essential part in American culture is described in Peter Novick’s study The Holocaust in American Life.
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films like Schindler’s List (1993) and Life is Beautiful (1998). The Holocaust has been brought to the attention of millions of people, yet in a ... Peter Novick has commented on this interesting chronology: from initial repression, to a growing obsession in later decades. He states: ‘Generally speaking, historical events are most talked ...
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caust, especially in mainstream American life. Developing Peter Novicks claim that the Holocaust has been transformed into an "American memory, n the author notes that virtually all breakthrough moments in non-Jewish American awareness of the Holocaust (The Diary of Anne Frank, WieseVs Night, the NBC television movie
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The Holocaust in American Life should be seen like an onion, whose thick outer layers conceal the more tender core. The first chronological layer the reader encounters is the Holocaust itself, as it was reflected in American life. Novick enters many of the controversies of recent Holocaust scholarship and popular understanding: what was known
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The Holocaust Industry Re‘ ections on the Exploitation of greatest: The Holocaust in American Life, by Peter Novick, and The Holocaust Industry, by Norman Finkelstein (the latter originally began as review of Novick’ s work and afterwards. Norman Finkelstein The Holocaust Industry - tempsitegovie speciousness of the arguments behind such
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Nearly twenty years ago, historian Peter Novick (2000) opened his landmark study The Holocaust in American Life by asking “Why here?” and “Why now?” Novick’s queries emerged from the fact that, by the turn of the century, the Holocaust had become an identity-defining event for American Jews, amid the waning influence
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Witnessing: Postwar Efforts to Experience the Holocaust and Peter Novick’s chapter “No Bigotry No Sanction” in The Holocaust in American Life . 3 A note on spelling: Primary and secondary sources accept “Herero” as the common spelling, with “Hereros” being the plural. However, there is far l ess agreement on the spelling of ...
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Beyond the Conceivable: Studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), 130–37; Yehuda Bauer, Rethinking the Holocaust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), 45. 11 Saul Friedländer, “Ein Genozid wie jeder andere?,” in Ein Verbrechen ohne Namen, 31; Diner, Über kognitives Entsetzen,” 86.
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is Peter Novick's The Holocaust in American Life, and this further com plicates Why We Watched. For one thing, Novick provides almost no primary evidence in his discussion of the American debates over Jewish refugees and rescue before and during the war; his work is primarily a synthetic effort to develop a larger argument about the insignificance
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17 Apr 2018 · institutionalization of the Holocaust as part of American history and as a Jewish “event” in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., the Holo - ... The late Peter Novick remarked, “Insistence on its uniqueness (or de - nial of its uniqueness) is an intellectually empty enterprise for rea- ...
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The Holocaust in American Life Peter Novick,2000 An award winning history scholar explores the impact of the Holocaust in American political and cultural life examining its role as a moral reference point for all Americans and the ways in which Jews have used it to define
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The Holocaust Industry Re‘ ections on the Exploitation of greatest: The Holocaust in American Life, by Peter Novick, and The Holocaust Industry, by Norman Finkelstein (the latter originally began as review of Novick’ s work and afterwards. Norman Finkelstein The Holocaust Industry - tempsitegovie speciousness of the arguments behind such
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The Holocaust In American Life Peter Novick,2000-09-20 Prize winning historian Peter Novick illuminates the reasons Americans ignored the Holocaust for so long how dwelling on German crimes interfered with Cold War mobilization how
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Peter Novick is an exemplary historian. His book, That Noble Dream, is a landmark and award-winning study of objectivity, or the lack thereof, ... In this chapter, I want to explore the strengths of The Holocaust in American Life, including Novick's application of a traditional historical method to understand the Holocaust in America, the use ...
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repressed. Peter Novick, in his important history of the changing attitudes to the Judeocide, The Holocaust in American Life, writes that, 'the Holocaust wasn't talked about very much in the United States through the end of the 1950s. [...] it's been talked about a lot since the end of the 1970s' (Novick 1999, p. 127). From the point of
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American courts against the Republic of Austria and Austrian companies that had used forced or slave labour or profited from the expropriation of ... 2 See Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life (Boston and New York, 1999) and Jean Michel Chaumont, La concurrence des victimes. G?nocide, identit?, reconnaissance (Paris, 1997).
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6 For these broader considerations, see above all the thought-provoking analysis by Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life (New York 1999). 7 For a more detailed discussion and reference, see Richard J. Evans, In Defence of History (2nd edn, London 2001), esp. the Afterword. 165
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2 Jan 2022 · 4 List of Figures Figure 1: “Cartwheel Girl,” Dorothy Thompson on the Cover of Time, June 12, 1939 Figure 2: Dorothy Thompson in Palestine, 1945 Figure 3: Picture from Dorothy Thompson’s scrapbook covering her 1945 visit to Palestine. During her trip, Thompson was guided by soldiers working for the British Mandatory power. The flag shown in the picture …
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The Holocaust in American Life by PETER NOVICK. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999; xiv + 376 pp., notes, index; clothbound, $27.00; paperbound, $15.00. As Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America, The Holocaust Industry, and The Holocaust in American Life suggest, relatively
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1998), and for the US, see Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000). 6. See Dubiel 72-76. Helmut Dubiel 63 past. The only symbolic interpretative device bequeathed by the Nazis to the Bonn Republic was the concept of the "nation." For all political
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In tracing the history of the Holocaust in American life, Novick is largely successful. Like other recent scholarship on this theme1, Novick argues that, while Americans were not silent about Nazi atrocities during and immediately after the war, the "Holocaust" was not recognized as a discrete historical event until decades later.
