Stephen H. Norwood is a professor of history at the
University of Oklahoma. He received his PhD at
Columbia University in 1984.
Norwood's 2009 book ''
The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses'', drew attention even before publication. According to Norwood, "Harvard was involved in active steps that helped legitimate the Nazi regime in the West", and was "indifferent to the prosecution of German Jews and indeed on numerous occasions assisted the Nazis in their efforts to gain acceptance in the West", welcoming one of
Adolf Hitler's closest deputies to a reunion, hosting a reception for German naval officials and sending delegates to a celebration at a German university that had expelled Jews, while failing to condemn the policies of Hitler's regime.
Norwood's most recent book is ''Antisemitism and the American Far Left''. This is the first systematic study of the American far-left's role in both promoting and combating
antisemitism
Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism.
Antis ...
. The book covers both the
Old Left
The Old Left was the pre-1960s left-wing in the Western world, the earlier leftist or Marxist movements that had often taken a more vanguardist approach to social justice and focused mostly on labor unionization and questions of social class in ...
and
New Left
The New Left was a broad political movement mainly in the 1960s and 1970s consisting of activists in the Western world who campaigned for a broad range of social issues such as civil and political rights, environmentalism, feminism, gay rights, g ...
, including the latter's
black nationalist allies. It also examines the antisemitism of the contemporary far-left, including its relationships with Islamists.
[Edward Alexander, "Book Marks," Chicago Jewish Star, November 22-December 5, 2013]
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Awards
* Herbert G. Gutman Award in American Social History, 1990
* SABR/Macmillan Award
* Finalist, National Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Studies, 2009
See also
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Rose Finkelstein Norwood
References
External links
''Voices on Antisemitism'' Interview with Stephen H. Norwoodfrom the
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Oklahoma faculty
Historians of the Holocaust
Columbia University alumni
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
American male non-fiction writers
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