Marion Kaplan (born January 24, 1946) is Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at

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. She is a three-time winner of the

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, where she conducted research for her book into the Jewish refugee experience in Portugal. She was also Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence at the USC

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in 2018-19 where she delivered the keynote lecture "Did Gender Matter During the Holocaust?" recognizing thirty years worth of research into women and gender in the Holocaust. She argued that while scholarship has come a long way since the 1983 conference on women and the Holocaust organized by

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and Esther Katz, there remains a pressing need for research into all aspects of women's lives, in addition to race, class, geography, sexual violence, queer sexuality, bonding between women, and comparative approaches.

Life

Kaplan did both her MA (1969) and PhD (1977) at

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. She has two children, Joshua and Ruth, and is married to Douglas Morris. (Ref. Page xii, in her book Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazism Germany.)

Publications

Kaplan has published several significant books in the field of German-Jewish History and Holocaust Studies including ''The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany'' (1991). Her book, ''Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in'' Sosua, 1940-1945 (Museum of Jewish Heritage, NY, 2008), was a finalist for the Jewish Book Award (2008). In 2011, her book ''Gender & Jewish History'' (

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), written with co-editor

Deborah Dash Moore Deborah Dash Moore (born 1946, in New York City) is the former director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and a Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Early li ...

in honor of historian

Paula Hyman Paula Hyman (September 30, 1946 – December 15, 2011) was a social historian and the Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University. She served as the president of the American Academy for Jewish Research from 2004 to 2008. Sh ...

, was awarded the National Jewish Book Award in the category of Anthologies and Collections. Her most recent book is: ''Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal'' (Yale, 2020). Her research draws on archival collections, newspapers and Jewish community publications, but also on diaries, letters and memoirs that shed light on individual experience and everyday life. All of her books have been translated into German.

References

14. Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazism Germany. OUP 1998. {{DEFAULTSORT:Kaplan, Marion Historians of the Holocaust New York University faculty 20th-century American historians Jewish American writers Living people 1946 births