He appeared on Question Time on 15 October In August , Schama was one of public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue. Schama was critical of a call by British novelist John Berger for an academic boycott of Israel over its policies towards the Palestinians. Writing in The Guardian in an article co-authored with lawyer Anthony Julius, Schama compared Berger's academic boycott to policies adopted by Nazi Germany, noting: "This is not the first boycott call directed at Jews.
On 1 April , only weeks after he came to power, Hitler ordered a boycott of Jewish shops, banks, offices and department stores. He characterised Israel's bombing of Lebanese city centres as unhelpful in Israel's attempt to "get rid of" Hezbollah. With regard to the bombing he said: "Of course the spectacle and suffering makes us grieve. Who wouldn't grieve? But it's not enough to do that.
We've got to understand. You've even got to understand Israel's point of view. Retrieved July 25, British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved 12 November Bosman, Julie. Simon Schama. The basics. The details from wikipedia. Career He worked for short periods as a lecturer in history at Cambridge, where he was a Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Christ's College, and at Oxford, where he was made a Fellow of Brasenose College in , specialising in the French Revolution.
In the United States. In , he wrote and narrated a five-part television series on the history of the Jews and published a two-volume history of the Jewish people. Schama was the only one of the four to receive a knighthood. He currently lives in New York, where he teaches history and art history at Columbia University. In Streetwise Hebrew for the Times of Israel Community, each month we learn several colloquial Hebrew phrases around a common theme.
I think he should be cloned. The world would be a better place. By the mids, Schama was art critic for the New Yorker , had a chair at Columbia University and had written and presented two series on art for the BBC. Since then, he's balanced his post in New York, from which he took a sabbatical to make The Story of the Jews , with making films in Britain, trailing an ever-growing army of fans in his wake.
With popularity, however, comes envy, particularly in academic circles, and Schama has not escaped the accusation that he has "dumbed down". It's a charge that he vehemently rejects. To his accusers, he says he wants to say: "'Try it, Buster. See how unbelievably demanding it is. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to someone's granny or eight-year-old takes the highest quality of your powers. I am completely unrepentant.
One should not feel shifty. With his robust opinions and emphatic delivery, Schama isn't shifty, but he isn't necessarily easy to place. A liberal, he isn't a historian of the left or right. He's not divisive like, say, his fellow TV historian, Niall Ferguson. As one observer puts it: "The liberal left like to think that he belongs to them and the liberal right think that he's one of theirs. Schama was in agreement with Gove that history had lost its binding thread and become a series of unrelated greatest hits — the Tudors, the Nazis etc.
In , he said that the way that the subject was taught threatened to cut "the cord of our national memory", explaining that "chronology is very important". His fear, he wrote, was that unless children could be won over to history, "their imagination will be held hostage in the cage of the eternal now".
But earlier this year, after Gove published his draft curriculum, Schama delighted his audience at the Hay festival by deriding the proposals. Aside from history, Schama's great passions are food, art and conversation.
By his own admission, he has a magpie mind that has led him to write on subjects far divorced from his specialities. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor. With The Story of the Jews , however, he is solidly on home turf.
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