Simon Schama Explained

Sir Simon Schama
Birth Name:Simon Michael Schama
Birth Date:1945 2, df=yes
Birth Place:Marylebone, London, England
Awards:Wolfson History Prize
Leo Gershoy Award
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Education:Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School
Alma Mater:Christ's College, Cambridge
Discipline:History and art history

Sir Simon Michael Schama (; born 13 February 1945) is an English historian and television presenter. He specialises in art history, Dutch history, Jewish history, and French history. He is a Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University.[1]

Schama first came to public attention with his history of the French Revolution titled Citizens, published in 1989. He is also known for writing and hosting the 15-part BBC television documentary series A History of Britain (2000—2002),[2] [3] as well as other documentary series such as (2008) and The Story of the Jews (2013).

Schama was knighted in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours List.[4]

Early life and education

Schama was born on 13 February 1945 in Marylebone, London.[5] [6] His mother, Gertie (née Steinberg), was from an Ashkenazi Lithuanian Jewish family (from Kaunas, present-day Lithuania), and his father, Arthur Schama, was of Sephardi Jewish background (from Smyrna, present-day İzmir in Turkey), later moving through Moldova and Romania.[7] [8]

In the mid-1940s, the family moved to Southend-on-Sea in Essex before moving back to London. In 1956, Schama won a scholarship to the private Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Cricklewood (from 1961 Elstree, Hertfordshire). He then studied history at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was taught by John H. Plumb. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Starred First in 1966.[5]

Career

From 1966 to 1976, Schama was a fellow and director of studies in history at Christ's College, Cambridge.[9] He then moved to Oxford University, where he was elected a fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford in 1976, specialising in the French Revolution.[5] He also worked at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris.

At this time, Schama wrote his first book, Patriots and Liberators, which won the Wolfson History Prize. The book was originally intended as a study of the French Revolution, but as published in 1977, it focused on the effect of the Patriottentijd revolution of the 1780s in the Netherlands, and its aftermath.[10] [11]

His second book, Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel (1978), is a study of the Zionist aims of Edmond and James Rothschild.

In the United States

In 1980, Schama took up a chair at Harvard University as Mellon Professor of History. His next book, The Embarrassment of Riches (1987), again focused on Dutch history.[12] Schama interpreted the ambivalences that informed the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century, held in balance between the conflicting imperatives, to live richly and with power, or to live a godly life. The iconographic evidence that Schama draws upon, in 317 illustrations, of emblems and propaganda that defined Dutch character, prefigured his expansion in the 1990s as a commentator on art and visual culture.[13] Citizens (1989), written at speed to a publisher's commission, saw the publication of his long-awaited study of the French Revolution, and won the 1990 NCR Book Award. Its view that the violence of the Terror was inherent from the start of the Revolution, however, has received serious negative criticism.[5] [14]

Schama appeared as an on-screen expert in Michael Wood's 1989 PBS series Art of the Western World ("Realms of Light: The Baroque") as a presenting art historian, commenting on paintings by Diego Velázquez, Rembrandt, and Johannes Vermeer.

In 1991, he published Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations),[15] a relatively slender work of unusual structure and point-of-view in that it looked at two widely reported deaths a hundred years apart, that of British Army General James Wolfe in 1759 – and the famous 1770 painting depicting the event by Benjamin West – and that of George Parkman, murdered uncle of the better known 19th-century American historian Francis Parkman.[16] [17]

Schama mooted some possible (invented) connections between the two cases, exploring the historian's inability "ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing the documentation", and speculatively bridging "the teasing gap separating a lived event and its subsequent narration." Not all readers absorbed the nuance of the title: it received a very mixed critical and academic reception. Traditional historians in particular denounced Schama's integration of fact and conjecture to produce a seamless narrative,[18] but later assessments took a more relaxed view of the experiment.[19]

It was an approach soon taken up by such historical writers as Peter Ackroyd, David Taylor, and Richard Holmes.[20]

Schama's next book, Landscape and Memory (1995), focused on the relationship between physical environment and folk memory, separating the components of landscape as wood, water and rock, enmeshed in the cultural consciousness of collective "memory" embodied in myths, which Schama finds to be expressed outwardly in ceremony and text. More personal and idiosyncratic than Dead Certainties, this book was more traditionally structured and better-defined in its approach. Despite mixed reviews, the book was a commercial success and won numerous prizes.[21] [22]

Plaudits came from the art world rather than from traditional academia. Schama became art critic for The New Yorker in 1995. He held the position for three years, dovetailing his regular column with professorial duties at Columbia University; a selection of his essays on art for the magazine, chosen by Schama himself, was published in 2005 under the title Hang Ups.[23] During this time, Schama also produced a lavishly illustrated Rembrandt's Eyes, another critical and commercial success. Despite the book's title, it contrasts the biographies of Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens.[24]

BBC

Schama returned to the UK in 2000, having been commissioned by the BBC to produce a series of television documentary programmes on British history as part of their Millennium celebrations, under the title A History of Britain. Schama wrote and presented the episodes himself, in a friendly and often jocular style with his highly characteristic delivery, and was rewarded with excellent reviews and unexpectedly high ratings. There has been, however, some irritation and criticism expressed by a group of historians about Schama's condensed recounting of the British Isles' history on this occasion, particularly by those specialising in the pre-Anglo-Saxon history of Insular Celtic civilisation.[25] Three series were made, totalling 15 episodes,[26] covering the complete span of British history up until 1965;[27] it went on to become one of the BBC's best-selling documentary series on DVD. Schama also wrote a trilogy of tie-in books for the show, which took the story up to the year 2000; there is some debate as to whether the books are the tie-in product for the TV series, or the other way around. The series also had some popularity in the United States when it was first shown on the History Channel.[27] In 2001, Schama received a CBE. In 2003, he signed a new contract with the BBC and HarperCollins to produce three new books and two accompanying TV series. Worth £3 million (around US$5.3m), it represents the biggest advance deal ever for a TV historian. The first result of the deal was a book and TV show entitled ,[28] dealing in particular with the proclamation issued during the Revolutionary War by Lord Dunmore offering slaves from rebel plantations freedom in return for service to the crown.[29]

In 2006, the BBC broadcast a new TV series, Simon Schama's Power of Art, which, with an accompanying book, was presented and written by Schama. It marks a return to art history for him, treating eight artists through eight key works: Caravaggio's David with the Head of Goliath, Bernini's Ecstasy of St Theresa, Rembrandt's Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis, Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Marat, J. M. W. Turner's The Slave Ship, Vincent van Gogh's Wheat Field with Crows, Picasso's Guernica and Mark Rothko's Seagram murals.[30] It was also shown on PBS in the United States.[31] In October 2008, on the eve of the presidential election won by Barack Obama, the BBC broadcast a four-part television series called presented and written by Schama. In March 2009, Schama presented a BBC Radio 4 show entitled Baseball and Me, both exploring the history of the game and describing his own personal support of the Boston Red Sox.[32]

In 2010, Schama presented a series of ten talks for the BBC Radio 4 series A Point of View.[33] In 2011, the BBC commissioned Simon Schama to write and present a five-part series called A History of the Jews for BBC Two, for transmission in 2012,[34] The title became The Story of the Jews and broadcast was delayed until September 2013.[35] Writing in The Observer, Andrew Anthony called the series "an astonishing achievement, a TV landmark."[36]

In 2018, Simon Schama wrote and presented five of the nine episodes of Civilisations, a reboot of the 1969 series by Kenneth Clark.[37]

Personal life

Schama is Jewish. He is married to Virginia Papaioannou, a geneticist from California; they have two children, Chloe and Gabriel.[38] As of 2014, Schama resides in Briarcliff Manor, New York.[39] He is a Tottenham Hotspur supporter.[40]

Politics

In 2010, Schama was a financial donor to Oona King's unsuccessful campaign to become Mayor of London.[41]

In August 2014, Schama was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue.[42]

In November 2017, Schama joined Simon Sebag Montefiore and Howard Jacobson in writing a letter to The Times about their concern over antisemitism in the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, with particular reference to a growth in Anti-Zionism and its purported "antisemitic characteristics". Schama and Sebag Montefiore have both written historical works about Israel, while Jacobson has written regularly about Israel and the UK Jewish community in his newspaper columns.[43] Schama made a further criticism of the party in July 2019, when he joined other leading Jewish figures in saying, in a letter to The Guardian, that the crisis was "a taint of international and historic shame" and that trust in the party was "fractured beyond repair".[44]

Israel

Schama was critical of British art critic John Berger's support for the Palestinian call for an academic boycott of Israel. Writing in The Guardian in a 2006 article co-authored with Anthony Julius, Schama compared the open letter written by Berger and signed by 92 other leading artists to Nazi Germany, saying: "This is not the first boycott call directed at Jews. On 1 April 1933, only weeks after he came to power, Hitler ordered a boycott of Jewish shops, banks, offices and department stores."[45]

In 2006 on the BBC, Schama debated with Vivienne Westwood the morality of Israel's actions in the Israel-Lebanon War.[46] He described Israel's bombing of Lebanese city centres as unhelpful to Israel's attempt to "get rid of" Hezbollah.[46] 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."[46]

United States

Schama was a supporter of President Barack Obama[47] and a critic of George W. Bush.[48] He appeared on the BBC's coverage of the 2008 US presidential election, clashing with John Bolton.[49]

Reception and appraisal

Niall Ferguson praised Schama, "Amongst [historians] currently writing, Simon Schama stands out as the Dickens of modern historiography: bewilderingly erudite and prolific, passionate in his enthusiasms and armed with the complete contents of the thesaurus."[50]

Prizes and other honours

Honours

Commonwealth honours

Commonwealth honours
CountryDateAppointmentPost-nominal letters
2001Present CBE
2018Present Kt

Scholastic

University degrees
Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector and fellowships
LocationDateSchoolPosition
1995Present Honorary Fellow[60]
12 December 2012Present Honorary Fellow[61] [62]
20152016 Visiting Professor of Historiography[63]
Fellow[64]
Honorary degrees
LocationDateSchoolDegreeGave Commencement Address
20 May 1990 Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL)[65]
5 November 1999 Doctor of Letters (D.Litt)[66]
October 2002 Doctor of Letters (D.Litt)[67]
24 May 2003 Doctorate[68]
21 July 2006 Doctor of the University (D.Univ)[69]
2007 Doctor of the University (D.Univ)[70]
2009 Doctorate[71]
2010 Doctorate[72]
19 May 2011 Doctor of Literature (D.Litt)[73] [74]
29 March 2015 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)[75] Yes

Memberships and Fellowships

LocationDateOrganisationPosition
2015Present Fellow (FBA)[76]
2017Present Fellow (FRSL)

Awards

LocationDateInstitutionAward
1977 The Leo Gershoy Award
  • For his Book "Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands 1780–1813"
  • [77]
1977 The Wolfson History Prize
  • For his Book "Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands 1780–1813"
  • [78]
1992 Award in Literature
2002 The Medlicott Medal
2015 The Italian: [[Accademia dei Lincei]]|italic=no The Feltrinelli Prize for History

Bibliography

Books
Television documentaries

External links

Notes and References

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  2. Web site: BBC Two – A History of Britain by Simon Schama – Episode guide. BBC. en-GB. 16 September 2018.
  3. Web site: Observer review: A History of Britain by Simon Schama. McCrum. Robert. 30 September 2000. The Guardian. en. 16 September 2018.
  4. Web site: Honours list. 2018 . www.thegazette.co.uk.
  5. Snowman . Daniel . Daniel Snowman . 2004 . Simon Schama . History Today . 54 . 7. 34–36 . 10.1007/978-0-230-59997-0_24 . 31 January 2024 .
  6. News: Schama's art of making history. Silverstone, Ben. The Jewish Chronicle. 23 July 2006. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20111005064559/http://website.thejc.com/home.aspx?AId=46437&ATypeId=1&search=true2&srchtxt=1&srchhead=1&srchauthor=1&srchsandp=1&scsrch=0. 5 October 2011.
  7. Web site: Profile: Biblical Tales Gave Schama his First Taste for History . Wachmann . Doreen . 2013 . Jewish Telegraph. Jewishtelegraph.com. 26 August 2014.
  8. Web site: Simon Schama Interview | The Jewish Chronicle. Thejc.com. 12 October 2013. 26 August 2014.
  9. Web site: Schama, Sir Simon (Michael), (born 13 Feb. 1945), University Professor of Art History and History, Columbia University, since 1997; writer, New Yorker (art critic, 1995–98) . . Oxford University Press . 10 December 2023 . en . 1 December 2023.
  10. News: Patriots and Liberators by Simon Schama – Paperback HarperCollins. HarperCollins UK. 16 September 2018. en-US. 16 September 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180916202421/https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780006861560/patriots-and-liberators/. dead.
  11. News: History, his way. Moss, Stephen. 16 October 1999. The Guardian. 3 October 2021.
  12. Daniel, M., and S. Steinberg. "Simon Schama." Publishers Weekly 238, No. 22 (17 May 1991): 46. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed 30 April 2009).
  13. Adams, Julia; Stoler, Ann (November 1988). "The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age, by Simon Schama" (review). Contemporary Sociology. 17.6: 760–62. "He provides a reading of cultural tints and social textures at a level of visual detail that is usually reserved for art history."
  14. Notably in Timothy Tackett, "Interpreting the Terror" French Historical Studies 24.4 (Autumn 2001:569–578); Tackett's view of swiftly evolving revolution in his prosopography of the deputies, Becoming a Revolutionary: The Deputies of the French National Assembly and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Culture, 1789–1790 (Princeton University Press) 1996, was not fundamentally at variance with Schama.
  15. 2080071. Halttunen. Karen. Review of "Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations) by Simon Schama. The Journal of American History. 79. 2 . September 1992. 631. 10.2307/2080071.
  16. News: Simon Schama on Dead Certainties: 'Historians shouldn't make it up, but I did'. Schama . Simon . 12 April 2013 . The Independent. 16 September 2018. en-GB.
  17. News: A Historian Enters Fiction's Shadowy Domain. Bernstein. Richard. The New York Times. 15 May 1991 . 16 September 2018. en.
  18. Book: Windschuttle, Keith. Keith Windschuttle. The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering Our Past. 2000. Encounter Books. San Francisco. 1-893554-12-0. 252. [...] drawing absolute conclusions from [...] fragments of evidence.
  19. Book: Toplin, Robert Brent. History by Hollywood: the use and abuse of the American past. 1996. University of Illinois Press. Urbana. 0-252-06536-0. 7. "a fascinating experiment in historical writing".
  20. Book: Byatt, A. S.. A. S. Byatt. On histories and stories: selected essays. 2000. Harvard University Press. Cambridge, MA. 0-674-00451-5. 10.
  21. 2564086. Williams. Michael. Review of: "Landscape and Memory" by Simon Schama. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 87. 3. 564–65. 10.1111/1467-8306.t01-1-00067. 31 January 2024.
  22. News: Into Arcadia with Simon Schama. Gussow. Mel. The New York Times. 5 June 1995. 19 April 2013.
  23. Book: Hang-Ups, Essays on Painting (Mostly) by Simon Schama. 8 September 2005 . www.penguin.co.uk. en. 16 September 2018.
  24. Web site: Hang Ups by Simon Schama. Schama. Simon. 6 November 2004. The Guardian. en. 16 September 2018.
  25. Web site: Simon Schama Antidote. History News Network. 28 March 2007. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20060618131727/http://hnn.us/comments/10421.html. 18 June 2006.
  26. Web site: A History of Britain. IMDb. 28 March 2007.
  27. Cooper, Barbara Roisman. "A Wild Ride" Through A History of Britain With Simon Schama. British Heritage 23, no. 6 (November 2002): 48. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed 30 April 2009)
  28. News: Review: Rough Crossings by Simon Schama. Walvin. James. 3 September 2005. The Guardian. en. 16 September 2018.
  29. News: Observer review: Rough Crossings by Simon Schama . Butterworth . Alex. 24 September 2005. The Guardian. en. 16 September 2018.
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  31. Nalley, Richard. "Simon Schama's Power of Art." Forbes 180 (18 September 2007): 165–165. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed 30 April 2009).
  32. Web site: BBC Radio 4 Extra – Simon Schama – Baseball and Me – Episode guide. BBC. en-GB. 16 September 2018.
  33. Web site: A welcome slice of American pie, A Point of View – BBC Radio 4. BBC. en-GB. 16 September 2018.
  34. Web site: Simon Schama to present The History of the Jews on BBC Two. BBC. 2 February 2011.
  35. Web site: The Story of the Jews. BBC Programmes. BBC Two. 10 September 2013.
  36. News: Simon Schama: a man always making history. The Observer. 28 September 2013. 7 October 2013. Anthony. Andrew.
  37. Web site: Civilisations: Masterworks of beauty and ingenuity. BBC. 16 June 2018.
  38. Web site: Simon Schama: Could I have multiple personality disorder?. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/7912996/Simon-Schama-Could-I-have-multiple-personality-disorder.html . 12 January 2022 . subscription . live. The Telegraph. 28 July 2010 . 15 February 2017.
  39. News: Lombroso. Linda. Briarcliff historian tells PBS' 'The Story of the Jews'. 2 September 2014. The Journal News. 24 March 2014.
  40. News: Schama . Simon . The Yid Army's chants turn anti-semitism into kitsch banter . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/c3fbd9e6-21e2-11e3-9b55-00144feab7de . 10 December 2022 . subscription . Financial Times. 20 September 2013 .
  41. News: David Miliband hits it rich in leadership race as stars back Burnham and Balls. London. The Guardian. Michael. White. Michael White (journalist). 13 August 2010. 3 October 2021.
  42. News: Celebrities' open letter to Scotland – full text and list of signatories . . London . 7 August 2014 . 26 August 2014.
  43. News: Schama, Sebag-Montefiore and Jacobson unite to condemn Labour antisemitism . The Jewish Chronicle . Daniel . Sugarman . 6 November 2017 . 2 May 2018.
  44. News: Jewish figures rail against Labour's handling of antisemitism charges . The Guardian . Stefan . Boscia . 14 July 2019 . 24 November 2019.
  45. Web site: John Berger is wrong. Simon Schama. Anthony Julius. The Guardian. 22 December 2006.
  46. News: This Week – Simon Schama & Vivienne Westwood. This Week. BBC. 24 July 2006.
  47. News: In its severity and fury, this was Obama at his most powerful and moving. Schama. Simon. 30 August 2008. The Guardian. 34. 5 November 2008. London.
  48. News: Nowhere man: a farewell to Dubya, all-time loser in presidential history. Schama. Simon. 3 November 2008. The Guardian. 1–2. 5 November 2008. London.
  49. News: Road to the White House . 5 November 2008 . . 5 November 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081108041640/http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.2465762.0.road_to_the_white_house.php . 8 November 2008 .
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  53. Web site: BAFTA Awards . British Academy of Film and Television Arts . 12 November 2013.
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  56. Web site: Professor Schama Wins International Emmy for Power of Art. 22 January 2019.
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  64. Web site: Simon Schama@Brasenose – Brasenose College, Oxford. www.bnc.ox.ac.uk.
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  75. Web site: An historian's tale | Prof. Simon Schama, PhD honoris causa keynote speaker | WeizmannCompass . Weizmann.ac.il . 18 September 2022.
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  83. News: Simon Schama: finding the light in the darkness of the Jewish story – review . Jonathan Freedland. . 6 October 2017 . 24 October 2017 . Freedland, Jonathan.
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