Faculty Fellow
Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History, Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Faculty of Arts & Science
Lisbon is Sold Out! The Refugee Crisis of World War II and the Port of Last Resort
Marion Kaplan is Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at New York University. She is the author of The Jewish Feminist Movement in Germany: The Campaigns of the Jüdischer Frauenbund, 1904‑1938 (1979). She also wrote The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family and Identity in Imperial Germany (1991), which won the American Historical Association Conference Group in Central European History Book Prize for 1991/92 and the National Jewish Book Award. Her next book, Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany, was published in 1998 and won the 1996 Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History from the Wiener Library and the Institute of Contemporary History, London. It was named a 1998 Notable Book by the New York Times and won the National Jewish Book Award. Her newest monograph, Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosúa, 1940-1945 (2008), was chosen as a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. She further edited and contributed to: The Marriage Bargain: Women and Dowries in European History(1985) and Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618-1945 (2005), and was a co-editor and contributor to: When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany (1984);Jüdische Welten: Juden in Deutschland vom 18. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart (2005); and Gender and Jewish History (2011).