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In this lecture, the eminent historian Marion Kaplan will discuss the dilemma of German Jews as they attempted to escape Nazi persecution, heading toward a port of last resort, Lisbon, Portugal. It is a history of their emotions as they fled familiar places to cross formidable barriers and enter new, often hostile places. Kaplan asks how a spatial history of the Central European refugee dilemma affected them emotionally by gender, age, and class. Specifically, how did they react emotionally to their exclusion from public spaces, their loss of homes and belongings, their terrifying odysseys, and the new lands that they had to navigate? And how did time and timing affect refugees’ feelings as they confronted myriad new challenges?

Marion Kaplan is the Skirball Professor Emerita of Jewish History at New York University. She 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.

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