Michael R. Marrus

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Michael Robert Marrus (born February 3, 1941 in Toronto ) is a Canadian historian and professor emeritus from the University of Toronto .

Life

Michael Marrus studied history in Toronto, received a master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964 , and received his doctorate there in 1968. He later obtained a Master of Laws . Marrus has been married to Randi Greenstein since 1971 and they have three children. Marrus teaches history at the University of Toronto , where he also served as governor. He has been visiting professor at St Antony's College Oxford , the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , UCLA and the University of Cape Town .

Marrus researches the Holocaust and restitution and has published six books and a large number of essays. He is the editor of a nine-volume edition of research results.

In 1999 he was part of the International Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission of three Catholics and three Jews, the resulting 1963-1981 files Edition et Actes documents du Saint-Siège relatifs à la Seconde Guerre mondiale the behavior of the Vatican in the period of National Socialism for completeness should investigate. The group discontinued the project without having achieved anything in 2001 because the Vatican authorities did not cooperate to the expected extent and released archives. The Vatican denied this representation.

He writes reviews for the Canadian Historical Review and also publishes in the Financial Times . Marrus' research on the Jews in Vichy France , a book he co-wrote with Robert Paxton , received the National Jewish Book Award in 1982 . Marrus then received a Guggenheim grant . In 2008 he was inducted into the Order of Canada . Marrus is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada .

Fonts (selection)

  • Lessons of the Holocaust . Foreword by Margaret MacMillan . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015
  • Nansen Pass. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 4: Ly-Po. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2013, ISBN 978-3-476-02504-3 , pp. 313-315.
  • The Nuremberg war crimes trial, 1945-46: a documentary history . Boston: Bedford Books, 1997
  • Samuel Bronfman: The Life and Times of Seagram's Mr. Sam . Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 1991
  • The Nazi Holocaust: Historical Articles on the Destruction of European Jews . 9 volumes. 1989
    • The "Final Solution" outside Germany Westport: Meckler, 1989
    • Public opinion and relations to the Jews in Nazi Europe . Westport: Meckler, 1989
  • The Strange Story of Herschel Grynszpan. In: The American Scholar. Vol. 57, No. 1, Winter 1987/1988, ISSN  0003-0937 , pp. 69-79.
  • The Holocaust in History . Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1987
  • The unwanted: European refugees in the twentieth century . New York: Oxford University Press, 1985
    • The unwanted . Translation of Gero Deckert. Berlin: Schwarze Risse, Rote Strasse, VLA, 1999
  • with Robert Paxton : Vichy France and the Jews . New York: Basic Books, 1981
  • The politics of assimilation: a study of the French Jewish community at the time of the Dreyfus Affair . Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1971

literature

  • Adi Gordon, Amos Morris-Reich, Amos Goldberg: Michael Marrus. Was German Judaism blind to its fate? Interview, in: David Bankier (ed.): Questions about the Holocaust: Interviews with prominent researchers and thinkers . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2006, pp. 234-254

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joint Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission Suspends Work , International Council of Christians and Jews , August 10, 2001
  2. ↑ Michael Marrus: The Twisted Road , Review by David Cesarani : Final Solution. The Fate of the Jews 1933-49 , 2016, in: Financial Times , January 23, 2016, p. 8
personal data
SURNAME Marrus, Michael R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marrus, Michael Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian historian and professor emeritus
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto