Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968

Marci Shore teaches modern European intellectual history. She received her M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1996 and her Ph.D from Stanford University in 2001; she taught at Indiana University before coming to Yale. Her research focuses on the intellectual history of twentieth and twenty-first century Central and Eastern Europe. 

She is the translator of Micha? G?owi?ski’s The Black Seasons and the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, and The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution. In 2018 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her current book project, a history of phenomenology in East-Central Europe, tentatively titled “Eyeglasses Floating in Space: Central European Encounters That Came about While Searching for Truth.” 

She is a regular visiting fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna. Presently she is co-curating a Public Seminar/Eurozine forum “On the Uses and Disadvantages of Historical Comparisons for Life” (title stolen from Nietzsche): https://publicseminar.org/essays/the-last-time-i-saw-them-new-democracy-seminar-forum/

Her articles and essays include 

• “Philosophy in the Time of Revolution” (The Interlocutor: Journal of the Warsaw School of the History of Ideas); 
• “Can We See Ideas? On Evocation, Experience, and Empathy” (Modern European Intellectual History); 
• “Entscheidung am Majdan: Eine Phänomenologie der Ukrainischen Revolution” (Lettre International); 
• “Jews and Cosmopolitanism: An Arc of European Thought” (Historická Sociologie), 
• “(The End of) Communism as a Generational History” (Contemporary European History); 
• “‘If we’re proud of Freud…: The Family Romance of Judeo-Communism” (East European Politics and Societies); 
• “Rescuing the Yiddish Ukraine (New York Review of Books) 
• “Die Zerbrechlichkeit des Liberalismus oder Das Ende vom ‘Ende der Geschichte’” (Transit: Europäische Revue); 
• “Conversing with Ghosts: Jedwabne, ?ydokomuna, and Totalitarianism” (Kritika: Explorations of Russian and Eurasian History); 
• “Children of the Revolution: Communism, Zionism, and the Berman Brothers” (Jewish Social Studies); 
• “Czysto Babski: A Women’s Friendship in a Man’s Revolution” (East European Politics and Societies); 
• “Engineering in the Age of Innocence: A Genealogy of Discourse Inside the Czechoslovak Writers’ Union, 1949-1967” (East European Politics and Societies); 
• “In Search of Meaning after Marxism: The Komandosi, March 1968, and the Ideas that Followed” (Warsaw: The History of a Jewish Metropolis); 
• “Dissidents, Intellectuals, and a New Generation” (The End and the Beginning: The Revolutions of 1989 and the Resurgence of History); 
• (Modernism in) “Eastern Europe” (The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism); 
• “On Cosmopolitanism and the Avant-Garde, and a Lost Innocence of Mitteleuropa” (Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility); and 
• “Wspomnienie o Krzysztofie Michalskim (1948-2013)” (Zeszyty Literackie).

Source: Yale University Department of History