Daniel Horowitz and Daniel Horowitz
Recorded
July 11, 2023
Archived
July 11, 2023
42:18 minutes
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Id:
atl004814
Description
New acquaintances and "name brothers" Daniel "Dan" Horowitz (85) and Daniel Horowitz Garcia (53) have a conversation about their shared name and their career path as historians.Subject Log / Time Code
Daniel Horowitz Garcia asks Daniel "Dan" Horowitz the story of his name.
Daniel and Dan talk about having family from the Belarus area of Eastern Europe.
Daniel and Dan talk about World War II.
Dan asks Daniel if his family talked about the Holocaust.
Dan talks about New York's Lower East Side. He says his father was a Zionist.
Daniel remembers when he realized that studying history was more than just memorizing names and dates.
Dan talks about what American history means to him.
Daniel talks about the wave of social history. Dan talks about the 1960s and the new social history movement.
Daniel says he is an historian by training and by inclination. He talks about unions and becoming an organizer. Dan calls himself a spectator and says he never marched.
Dan says that by his junior year in college he was an American studies major. He says he struggled deciding what he was going to do as a career.
Dan remembers the 1950s as a time when he was figuring out what it meant to American, what it meant to be Jewish American. He says he wondered if he belonged.
Daniel says his mother is Puerto Rican and his father is Jewish. He says he is a jewrican.
Dan says his mother was very secular and that his father was very religious.
Daniel explains the order of his two last names. He talks about moving toward whiteness.
Dan talks about the insider outsider issue. He talks about attending Yale in 1956 and the Jewish quota.
Daniel talks about moving from Florida to Puerto Rico during his senior year of high school. He says he returned to Florida to attend the University of Central Florida.
Daniel talks about finishing his degree at Georgia State University.
Dan talks about growing up in a privileged family.
Dan and Daniel talk about the differences in their paths as historians.
Dan talks about the question of whether history should be taught. Daniel talks about his experience teaching at Kennesaw State University.
Dan talks about having a narrative of American history.
Daniel talks about having hope. Daniel and Dan thank each other for having this conversation.
Participants
- Daniel Horowitz
- Daniel Horowitz