[1] The latter title has also been published as The Holocaust and Collective Memory, especially for non-US anglophonic markets.
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.
[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] Novick founded the Jewish studies program at the University of Chicago.
[8] Novick earned his bachelor's and doctoral degrees from Columbia University, in 1957 and 1965 respectively.