Marci Shore (born 1972) is an American associate professor of intellectual history at
Yale University
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, where she specializes in the history of literary and political engagement with
Marxism
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and
phenomenology
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Art
* Phenomenology (architecture), based on the experience of building materials and their sensory properties
Philosophy
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.
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; and of'' The Taste of Ashes'', a study of the presence of the communist and
Nazi
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past in today's
Eastern Europe
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Holocaust
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memoir, ''The Black Seasons''. Shore married Timothy D. Snyder, professor of history at Yale, in 2005. Shore is Jewish.
Education
Shore graduated in 1991 from
William Allen High School
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in
Allentown, Pennsylvania
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Stanford University
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in 1994, her
M.A.
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from the
University of Toronto
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in 1996, and her
doctorate
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from Stanford University in 2001. She works chiefly in
French
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,
German
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Ukrainian
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, and
Yiddish
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sources. She was also a
postdoctoral fellow
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at the
Harriman Institute
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, an assistant professor of history and
Jewish studies
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at
Indiana University
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Campuses
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*Indiana Universi ...
, and the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Yale. She has twice been a fellow of the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Institute of Human Sciences) in
Vienna
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cultural
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and
intellectual
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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
* ''The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution'' (Yale University Press, 2017)
* ''The Taste of Ashes'' (Crown Books/Random House, 2013, UK edition: Heinemann, German edition: Beck, Polish edition: Świat Ksiazki)
* ''Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918–1968'' (Yale University Press, 2006, Polish edition: Świat Ksiazki, 2008)
* Translator, Michał Głowiński'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,'' Aug. 1, 2002
* "Engineering in the Age of Innocence: A Genealogy of Discourse Inside the Czechoslovak Writer's Union, 1949–1967." ''East European Politics and Societies,'' September 1998, Vol. 12 Issue 3
* "Children of the Revolution: Communism, Zionism, and the Berman Brothers", ''Jewish Social Studies.'' Spring 2004, Vol. 10 Issue 3
* "Conversing with Ghosts: Jedwabne, Zydokomuna, and Totalitarianism", ''Kritika: Explorations of Russian and Eurasian History,'' June 2005, Vol. 6 Issue 2
* "Tevye's Daughters: Jews and European Modernity", ''Contemporary European History.'' February 2007, Vol. 16 Issue 1
* "When God Died: Symptoms of the East European Avant-Garde—and of
Slavoj Zizek
Slavoj may refer to:
*Karel Slavoj Amerling (1807–1884), Czech teacher, writer, and philosopher
*Slavoj Černý (born 1937), Czech former cyclist
* Slavoj Žižek (born 1949), Slovenian philosopher
See also
*Záboj and Slavoj, outdoor sculpture ...
." ''Slovo a smysl/Word and Sense: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Theory and Criticism in Czech Studies,'' 2005
* "Man liess sie nicht mal ein paar Worte sagen." ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,'' December 2001
* "Za dużo kompromisów. Stop." ''Gazeta Wyborcza'' (Warsaw), July 11, 2009
* ''“(The End of) Communism as a Generational History: Some Thoughts on Czechoslovakia and Poland.”'' Contemporary European History 18, no. 3 (2009)
* "A Pre-History of Post-Truth, East and West." ''Eurozine'' and ''Public Seminar'' Sept. 1 2017
* "On the Uses and Disadvantages of Historical Comparisons for Life." ''Public Seminar'' Oct. 19, 2020