Marci Shore
Shore in March 2019
Born	1972 (age 52–53) Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	professor of intellectual history
Spouse	Timothy D. Snyder ​ (m. 2005)​
Children	2
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Toronto (M.A.) Stanford University (Ph.D.)
Academic work
Discipline	Historian
Sub-discipline	History of literary and political engagement withMarxism andphenomenology
Institutions	Yale University
Main interests	Marxism andphenomenology

Marci Shore (born 1972) is an American professor of intellectual history atYale University, where she specializes in the history of literary and political engagement withMarxism andphenomenology.

Shore is the author ofCaviar 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 andNazi past in today'sEastern Europe. She translatedMichał Głowiński'sHolocaust memoir,The Black Seasons. Shore marriedTimothy D. Snyder, professor of history at Yale, in 2005. Shore is Jewish.^[1][2][3]

Shore was born inAllentown, Pennsylvania, in 1972. In 1991, she graduated in 1991 fromWilliam Allen High School in Allentown, and then attendedStanford University, where she received herB.A. in 1994.^[4] Two years later, in 1996, she received herM.A. from theUniversity of Toronto.^[5] She received adoctorate from Stanford University in 2001.^[5]

Shore works chiefly inFrench,German,Polish,Russian,Czech,Slovak,Ukrainian, andYiddish sources. She was also apostdoctoral fellow at theHarriman Institute, an assistant professor of history andJewish studies atIndiana University, and the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies atYale University.^[5] She has twice been a fellow of theInstitut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Institute of Human Sciences) inVienna. Shore teachesEuropeancultural andintellectual history at Yale.^[5] Shortly after the2024 United States presidential election, Shore andTimothy Snyder decided to leave their positions at Yale.^[6] They andJason Stanley, another Yale faculty member, joined theMunk School of theUniversity of Toronto.^[7][8]

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:^[9]

• Winner, 2006National Jewish Book Award in Eastern European Studies given by theJewish Book Council.^[10]
• Winner, 2007 Oskar Halecki Polish/East Central European History Award given by thePolish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America.
• Co-winner, 2007American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies.^[11]
• Finalist for theKoret International Jewish Book Award in Jewish Thought.^[12]

• 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'sThe Black Seasons (Northwestern University Press, 2005)

• "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 ofSlavoj Žižek."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 andPublic Seminar Sept. 1 2017
• "On the Uses and Disadvantages of Historical Comparisons for Life."Public Seminar Oct. 19, 2020

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