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Vicki Caron
Caron


Diann G. and Thomas A. Mann
Professor of Modern Jewish Studies

Office: 100 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 255-4517
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: vc21@cornell.edu
Updated CV

Office Hours: On Leave

Courses

Fall 2009:   On Leave
Spring 2010:
3700
History of the Holocaust
4170
History of Jews in Modern France

Education

Ph.D. Columbia University, 1983
M.Phil Columbia University, 1977
M.A. Columbia University, 1975
B.A. University of Illinois, 1973

Recent Publications and Awards

Publications

Between France and Germany:  The Jews of Alsace-Lorraine, 1871-1918  (Stanford, CA:  Stanford University Press, l988).

Uneasy Asylum:  France and the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1933-1942  (Stanford CA:  Stanford University Press, 1999;  Paperback edition, 2001; forthcoming in French translation under the title Un Asile incertain:  Les réfugiés juifs en France, 1933-1942,  (Paris, Tallandier, 2007).

Jewish Emancipation Reconsidered:  The French and German Models, co-edited with Michael Brenner and Uri R. Kaufmann, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2003.

"Unwilling Refuge:  France and the Dilemma of Illegal Immigration, 1933-1939," in Frank Caestecker and Bob Moore, eds., Refugees from Nazi-Germany and the Liberal European States, 1933-1939, (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2007), forthcoming.

"The Path to Vichy:  Antisemitism in France in the 1930's," U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Occasional Paper, 2005

"French Public Opinion and the 'Jewish Question,' 1930-1942:  The Role of Middle-Class Professional Organizations," in Nazi Europe and the Final Solution, eds. David Bankier and Israel Gutman, (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2003), pp. 374-410.

"The 'Jewish Question' from Dreyfus to Vichy," in French History since Napoleon,
ed., Martin S. Alexander  (London:  Arnold, 1999)

Work in Progress:

Jewish-Catholic Relations in France since 1870

Awards

J.B. and Maurice Shapiro Senior Scholar, Holocaust Memorial Museum, nominated in 2002 for academic year 2004-05.

Columbia Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall, Paris, France, 2003-04.

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2000-01.

American Council of Learned Societies, Alternate, 2000-01.

American Academy for Jewish Research, elected member in spring, 2001.

Skirball Fellowship, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, September 1997-January 1998.

Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History for 1997 (awarded by the Wiener Library, London, for the best unpublished book manuscript in contemporary European History).