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Marci Shore (born 1972) is an American associate professor of intellectual history at Yale University , where she specializes in the history of literary and political engagement with Marxism and phenomenology .1 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 past in today's Eastern Europe . Snyder , professor of history at Yale, in 2005. Ukrainian Institute of America .2
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Marci Shore is an American assisant professor of history at Yale University . She specializes in Jewish studies and the history of Eastern Europe . Shore is the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 and the translator of the English language version of Michal Glowinski's Holocaust memoir, The Black Seasons .
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Marci Shore is an American associate professor of intellectual history at Yale University .She specializes in the history of literary and political engagement with Marxism and phenomenology.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, of "The Taste of Ashes," a study of the presence of the communist and Nazi past in today's eastern Europe, and the translator of Michal Glowinski's Holocaust memoir, The Black Seasons .Since 2005, Shore has been married to Timothy Snyder , professor of history at Yale.
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Marci Shore (born 1972) is an American associate professor of intellectual history at Yale University . She specializes in the history of literary and political engagement with Marxism and phenomenology . 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, of The Taste of Ashes , a study of the presence of the communist and Nazi past in today's Eastern Europe, and the translator of Michal Glowinski's Holocaust memoir, The Black Seasons . Snyder , professor of history at Yale, in 2005.
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American historian Marci Shore (born 1972) is an American professor of intellectual history at the University of Toronto , where she specializes in the history of literary and political engagement with Marxism and phenomenology . 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 past in today's Eastern Europe .
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american assisant professor of history at yale university
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american professor of intellectual history at the university of toronto
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