Marci Shore
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Marci Shore is an American associate professor of intellectual history at Yale University
. She specializes in the history of literary and political engagement with Marxism and phenomenology. Shore is the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, a milieu biography of Polish and Polish-Jewish writers drawn to Marxism in the twentieth century, of "The Taste of Ashes," a study of the presence of the communist and Nazi past in today's eastern Europe, and the translator of Michal Glowinski's Holocaust
memoir, The Black Seasons.
in Allentown, Pennsylvania
. She received her B.A.
from Stanford University
in 1994, her M.A.
from the University of Toronto
in 1996, and her doctorate
from Stanford University in 2001. She works chiefly in French, German, Polish, Russian, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, and Yiddish sources. She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Harriman Institute
, an assistant professor of history and Jewish studies at Indiana University
, and the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Yale. She has twice been a fellow of the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. Shore teaches European cultural and intellectual history at Yale.
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
. She specializes in the history of literary and political engagement with Marxism and phenomenology. Shore is the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, a milieu biography of Polish and Polish-Jewish writers drawn to Marxism in the twentieth century, of "The Taste of Ashes," a study of the presence of the communist and Nazi past in today's eastern Europe, and the translator of Michal Glowinski's Holocaust
The Holocaust
The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...
memoir, The Black Seasons.
Education
Shore graduated in 1990 from William Allen High SchoolWilliam Allen High School
William Allen High School is one of two public high schools of the Allentown School District located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the United States....
in Allentown, Pennsylvania
Allentown, Pennsylvania
Allentown is a city located in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is Pennsylvania's third most populous city, after Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and the 215th largest city in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 118,032 and is currently...
. She received her B.A.
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
from Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
in 1994, her M.A.
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...
from the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
in 1996, and her doctorate
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...
from Stanford University in 2001. She works chiefly in French, German, Polish, Russian, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, and Yiddish sources. She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Harriman Institute
Harriman Institute
The Harriman Institute, the first academic center in the United States devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Russia and the Soviet Union, was founded at Columbia University in 1946, with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, as the Russian Institute....
, an assistant professor of history and Jewish studies at Indiana University
Indiana University
Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...
, and the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Yale. She has twice been a fellow of the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. Shore teaches European cultural and intellectual history at Yale.
Awards
Her book, Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, won eight awards and was shortlisted for several more. These include:- Winner, 2006 National Jewish Book Award in Eastern European Studies given by the Jewish Book CouncilJewish Book CouncilThe Jewish Book Council, founded in 1944, is an organization encouraging and contributing to Jewish literature. The goal of the council, as stated on its website, is "to promote the reading, writing and publishing of quality English language books of Jewish content in North America". It is the only...
. - Winner, 2007 Oskar Halecki Polish/East Central European History Award given by the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of AmericaPolish Institute of Arts and Sciences of AmericaThe Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America is a Polish-American scholarly institution headquartered in Manhattan , at 208 East 30th Street.-History:...
. - Co-winner, 2007 American Association for the Advancement of Slavic StudiesAmerican Association for the Advancement of Slavic StudiesThe Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies is a scholarly society dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about the former Soviet Union and Eastern and Central Europe...
/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies. - Finalist for the Koret International Jewish Book Award in Jewish Thought.
Books
- The Taste of Ashes (forthcoming)
- Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 (Yale University Press, 2006)
- Translator, Michal Glowinski's The Black Seasons (Northwestern University Press, 2005)
Articles
- "Czysto Babski: A Women's Friendship in a Man's Revolution", East European Politics and Societies
- "Engineering in the Age of Innocence: A Genealogy of Discourse Inside the Czechoslovak Writer's Union, 1949-1967", East European Politics and Societies
- "Children of the Revolution: Communism, Zionism, and the Berman Brothers", Jewish Social Studies
- "Conversing with Ghosts: Jedwabne, Zydokomuna, and Totalitarianism", Kritika: Explorations of Russian and Eurasian History
- "Tevye's Daughters: Jews and European Modernity", Contemporary European History
- "When God Died: Symptoms of the East European Avant-Garde-and of Slavoj Zizek", Slovo a smysl/Word and Sense: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Theory and Criticism in Czech Studies
- "Man liess sie nicht mal ein paar Worte sagen", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- "Za dużo kompromisów. Stop", Gazeta Wyborcza (Warsaw)
External links
- Yale History faculty page
- Indiana University: Experts & Speakers Faculty Profile
- Yale University Press: Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968
- Google Books: The Black Seasons
- Google Books: Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968