What would you like prospective grad students to know about you, your teaching, and your scholarship?
As passionate as I am about teaching, I am equally enthusiastic about research.

Marion Kaplan
Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History
Prof. Kaplan is a three-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award for her books: The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family and Identity in Imperial Germany (New York, Oxford University Press, 1991); Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (Oxford University Press, 1998); and Gender and Jewish History, co-edited with Deborah Dash Moore (Indiana, 2011).
Her other books include: The Jewish Feminist Movement in Germany: The Campaigns of the Jüdischer Frauenbund, 1904‑1938 (Greenwood Press, 1979); When Biology became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany co‑editor with Renate Bridenthal and Atina Grossmann (Monthly Review Press, 1984);The Marriage Bargain: Women and Dowries in European History, ed. (Institute for Research in History and the Haworth Press, 1985); Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618-1945, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2005); Jüdische Welten: Juden in Deutschland vom 18. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart, co-editor with Beate Meyer (Wallstein Verlag, 2005); and Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosúa, 1940-1945 (New York, 2008), a Finalist, National Jewish Book Award. Hitler's Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal (Yale, 2020). All of her monographs have been translated into German.
German-Jewish History, Modern European History, Women's History, and Post-War Europe
Publications
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Monthly Review Press (January 1, 1984)
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Routledge; 1 edition (January 1, 1985)
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Oxford University Press; 1 edition (August 15, 1991)
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Oxford University Press; 1 edition (June 10, 1999)
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Oxford University Press; 1 edition (March 3, 2005)
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Wallstein Verlag (January 31, 2005)
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Museum of Jewish Heritage; 1st edition (February 1, 2008)
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Indiana University Press (December 3, 2010)
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Yale University Press (January 7, 2020)
Contact Information
Marion Kaplan
Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History marion.kaplan@nyu.edu 53 Washington Square South, Room 110Phone: (212) 998-3550