Self-Hating Historiographer Dead at 77

By Bradley R. Smith ∙ March 13, 2012

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Peter Novick, a (non-practicing) Jewish professor at the University of Chicago, wrote the ground-breaking (and earth-shaking) The Holocaust in American Life in 1999. With insight massively confirmed in the 13 years since its publication, Novick delineated how that group of events, imagined and real, now packaged under the rubric of "the Holocaust" acquired outsize influence in American discourse among both Jews and non-Jews alike.)

He explored some of the reasons for this development, identifying the promotion of Israeli aggression as but one of the nefarious undertakings buttressed by the worship and enforcement of Holocaust mythology.

The New York Times's Dennis Hevesi (brother of Holocaust abuser Alan Hevesi) does an impressive job of reviewing this savant's contributions in this article, whose many links do not include any to the book, or a site on which one might purchase the book.

  • Bradley R. Smith

    Bradley R. Smith was born in Los Angeles on February 18, 1930. At 18 he joined the army and in 1951 served with the infantry in Korea where he was twice wounded. After three decades of a variety of professional activities, it suddenly hit him: In 1979 he read a leaflet by Professor Robert Faurisson, "The Problem of the Gas Chambers." Then, Arthur Butz’s The Hoax of the Twentieth Century did it for him. He understood from the beginning that he would address the censorship, the suppression of independent thought, the taboo against publishing and debating revisionist arguments—not the arguments themselves. That has remained his position. In 1989, Smith founded Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) dedicated to defending free speech and free inquiry into the Holocaust question. He handed over CODOH's helm in late 2014. He passed away on his 86th birthday, February 18, 2016. Read a series of obituaries here.

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