The 2017 Lazaroff Lecture features Dr. Marion Kaplan discussing “Portugal, ‘Forced Paradise’: The Daily Lives and Feelings of Jewish Refugees in Occupied Europe” on Monday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. in Baker Center 240/242.
A reception will follow. This event is sponsored by the History Department, which invites students, faculty, and staff to this annual free, public event.
Marion Kaplan is Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies as well as Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at New York University. She has received the National Jewish Book Award for three of her books: The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family and Identity in Imperial Germany (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). She has published extensively on Jewish everyday life in Germany, Jewish feminism, women in Germany, and Jewish refugees in the Dominican Republic during World War II.
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