{{Short description|American historian (born 1946)}} {{Infobox person | name = Marion Kaplan | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|1|24}} | birth_place = London, United Kingdom | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | other_names = | known_for = National Jewish Book Prize winner and historian | education = Columbia University (MA, PhD) | employer = New York University | occupation = Professor | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Marion Kaplan''' (born January 24, 1946) is Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at New York University.<ref name="auto">Faculty Page https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/marion-kaplan.html</ref> She is a three-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award for her non-fiction writing about German-Jewish history, Jewish refugees, and Holocaust history.<ref>Association of Jewish Studies Distinguished Lectureship Program http://www.ajslectures.org/speakers/marion-kaplan/</ref> Established in 1950, these awards recognize outstanding achievement in Jewish writing and research.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-awards|title=National Jewish Book Awards|website=Jewish Book Council|language=en|access-date=2020-01-26}}</ref>

Kaplan's scholarship has been recognized with several scholars-in-residence positions. In 2000-2001 she was a Fellow at the NY Public Library, Center for Scholars and Writers. In 2014–15, Kaplan was the J.B and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar in Residence at the Mandel Center for Advanced Study, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where she conducted research for her book into the Jewish refugee experience in Portugal.<ref>Mandel Center For Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellows and Scholars https://www.ushmm.org/research/about-the-mandel-center/all-fellows-and-scholars/2014-marion-kaplan</ref> She was also Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence at the USC Shoah Foundation 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 Joan Ringelheim 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.<ref>USC Shoah Foundation Lecture Summary https://sfi.usc.edu/news/2019/05/24876-%E2%80%9Cdid-gender-matter-during-holocaust%E2%80%9D-marion-kaplan-skirball-professor-modern</ref>

==Life== Kaplan did both her MA (1969) and PhD (1977) at Columbia University.<ref name="auto"/> She has two children, Joshua and Ruth, and is married to Douglas Morris.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kaplan |first=Marion |title=Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1998 |isbn=9780195115314 |pages=xii}}</ref>

== 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).<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Linton|first=Derek S.|date=1994|title=Review of The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2124525|journal=The Journal of Modern History|volume=66|issue=3|pages=650–652|doi=10.1086/244926 |jstor=2124525 |issn=0022-2801|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Voeltz|first=Richard A.|date=1992-09-22|title=The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany|url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&issn=00182370&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA13421806&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=abs|journal=The Historian|language=English|volume=55|issue=1|pages=130–132}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Moeller|first=Robert G.|date=1993|title=Review of The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23735277|journal=German Politics & Society|issue=29|pages=138–140|jstor=23735277 |issn=1045-0300}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sharfman|first=Glenn R.|date=1992|title=The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany (review)|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/471068|journal=Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies|volume=10|issue=4|pages=100–102|doi=10.1353/sho.1992.0085|s2cid=170136587 |issn=1534-5165|url-access=subscription}}</ref> 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'' (Indiana University Press), written with co-editor Deborah Dash Moore in honor of historian Paula Hyman,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wallach|first=Kerry|date=2012-11-01|title=Gender and Jewish History|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2012.747324|journal=Journal of Modern Jewish Studies|volume=11|issue=3|pages=447–450|doi=10.1080/14725886.2012.747324|s2cid=144881353 |issn=1472-5886|url-access=subscription}}</ref> was awarded the National Jewish Book Award in the category of Anthologies and Collections.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Past Winners {{!}} Jewish Book Council|url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-awards/past-winners|access-date=2021-10-31|website=www.jewishbookcouncil.org|language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=When Europe was a Prison Camp|url=https://www.lbi.org/events/when-europe-was-prison-camp/|access-date=2021-10-31|website=Leo Baeck Institute|date=5 May 2016 |language=en-us}}</ref>

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== External links ==

* [https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb79228316 UC San Diego, Holocaust Living History Collection: When Biology Became Destiny: How Historians Interpret Gender in the Holocaust – with Marion Kaplan] {{Authority control}}

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