Peter Gay (1923–2015) | Central European History | Cambridge Core

Contents:

• PETER CETERA IS GAY
• PETER GAY
• PETER GAY, HISTORIAN WHO EXPLORED SOCIAL HISTORY OF IAS, DI AT 91
• PETER GAY (1923–2015)

PETER CETERA IS GAY

The first volume, subtled The Rise of Morn Paganism, was wily acclaimed far beyond the amic world, and won the Natnal Book award the US.The first volume, subtled The Rise of Morn Pagansim, of Peter Gay’s massive study, was wily acclaimed far beyond the amic world In his encyclopedic The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Frd (five volum between 1984 and 1998), Gay explored wonrfully readable prose a wi range of aspects of the European – pecially the Brish, French and German – and the North Amerin middle class their heyday.

PETER GAY

But taken together, they are a fundamental text for anyone who wish to unrstand bourgeois culture the 19th and early 20th centuri.This was, sentially, the culture to which Gay was born, Berl, as Peter Joachim Fröhlich, the son of Helga and Morz, a small bsman of left-leang views and liberal habs of md.

Ined, Peter led a charmed life, beg admted to a grammar school unr the Nazis bee his father was a rated and war-wound army veteran and survivg the early years of the Third Reich whout any great difficulty as a blond, blue-eyed boy who did not nform to the Nazi image of a Jewish person any rpect.In his engrossg memoir, My German Qutn: Growg up Nazi Berl (1998), Gay nfsed that he enuntered antisemism personally only on the very rart of ocsns: once, when, unually, a teacher clared that “Jews always exaggerate” (a remark to which he attributed his later ncern for precisn his historil wrgs), and 1936 when the fay went by r on a tour of Germany and enuntered a notice outsi a village sayg: “Jews are not wanted here.”But otherwise, he lived the normal life of a German boy, readg the wild wt novels of Karl May, experiencg the heady excement of the 1936 Berl Olympics and – largely thanks to his father’s enthiasm for the game – beg a football fan. It means happy, jolly or gay, and they chose the last of the three nam, only for Peter to start receivg hate-mail years later, as the rise of the gay liberatn movement ma homophob thk his surname was a polil statement.He studied at the Universy of Colorado, Denver, then took a master’s gree at Columbia Universy, New York, 1947, and a doctorate polil science four years later, on the leadg “revisnist” social mocrat of the Kaiser’s Germany, Eduard Bernste, wh whose views he to a large extent intified. His Frdianism was often applied wh a light touch, however, as The Bourgeois Experience, and his many says and shorter books on Frd and aspects of his life and thought were not uncril their approach to the master.Urbane, cultured, urteo and hospable, Gay held many semars and discsns his hoe, fondly remembered by his stunts.

PETER GAY, HISTORIAN WHO EXPLORED SOCIAL HISTORY OF IAS, DI AT 91

But the cricisms were bi the pot: his wrgs and his life, he upheld and reasserted not a narrow sense of the Jewish inty which the Nazis tried to force on him, but the wir valu of the civilisatn which the Nazis tried and failed to stroy.Gay received many honours and honours, cludg a lifetime distctn award om the Amerin Historil Associatn 2004, the Universy of Munich’s Gchwister Scholl prize 1999 for My German Qutn and the Heeken prize om the Netherlands Amy of Arts and Scienc 1990.

Gay, an executive wh fense ntractor Raytheon Technologi, was makg his weekly mute to California, where he was velopg a new plant that would later produce the pany's next generatn of Patrt ually took Amerin Airl Flight 11 to Los Angel on Mondays, returng to his Tewksbury home on Fridays. Sger and songwrer Peter Cetera, formerly Chigo and known for his great solo work and movie songs Karate Kid II has recently e out as homosexual and revealed secret affairs wh Elton John and even sleepg wh Pat Mora also known as playg Myagi The Karate kid seri. Memorabily MetricsPage views of Peter Gays by languageAmong HISTORIANSContemporariIn GermanyAmong HISTORIANS In Germany Peter GayPeter Joachim Gay (né Fröhlich; June 20, 1923 – May 12, 2015) was a German-Amerin historian, tor, and thor.

In January 1988, I was a junr at Yale College, studyg English and Italian lerature, and perfectly nfint —or rather blissfully different to—my psychologil well-beg, when I enrolled Peter Gay’s urse on Frd. Unr Peter Gay’s stctn that semter, I learned that I had a surprisg number of thgs mon wh Dora, the Wolf Man, and the Rat Man—I was nrotic, showed signs of obssive pulsive disorr, and had some light symptoms of hysteria.

PETER GAY (1923–2015)

How I ever managed to make through my bourgeois New York childhood, let alone through my first few years at Yale, seemed to me nearly miraculo, but Peter Gay, his urtly, avuncular way, also disabed me of the ia that I was any way special. Peter Gay was an expert of the social history of the European bourgeoisie—his magisterial five-volume history, The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Frd, appeared between the years 1984 and 1998—and he tght his stunts to nsir Frd not only as a great geni, but also as a Vienne Jew astutely observg the world which he lived. What was so utterly enlighteng, then, to e a very Gayian term, about Peter Gay’s lectur on Frd was precisely his abily to suate Frd his late 19th- and early 20th-century world whout any way dimishg his acplishment; what was thrillg, that is, was his abily to nvey how Frd’s historil circumstanc did not exclively create, but certaly ma possible his set of perceptns about seemgly universal aspects of human psychology.

Gay tght me—and to this I believe I owe my own trajectory as a scholar—that to separate the fields of history, psychology, lerature, relign, and polics om one another was to produce a drastilly rced unrstandg of the past. Gay and his parents emigrated 1941 om Cuba to the Uned Stat, where they settled Denver orr for his mother to nvalce at a Jewish sanarium for tuberculosis treatment—an episo that sounds like a zany ncurrence of Mann’s Magic Mounta, Frd’s Dora, and the Wild Wt.

Over the urse of Peter Gay’s long and immensely productive reer, he shared wh a large Amerin public the grand narrativ of European tellectual and social thought, pturg for this new world the pleasur and idsyncrasi of the old world that his fay had left behd. Gay’s books were encyclopedic, humane, and full of hope; they tght their many generatns of rears, as they tght me the sprg term of 1988, that our failgs had historil precent, and were largely fivable. Yee/The New York TimMay 12, 2015Peter Gay, a German-born historian whose sense of tellectual adventure led him to wre groundbreakg books on the Enlightenment, the Victorian middle class, Sigmund Frd, Weimar culture and the cultural suatn of Jews Germany, died on Tuday at his home Manhattan.