Vicki 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
Office Hours: On Leave
Education
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1983
M.Phil Columbia University, 1977
M.A. Columbia University, 1975
B.A. University of Illinois, 1973
Courses
| Fall 2008: | On Leave | |
|---|---|---|
| Spring 2009: | On Leave |
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Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History for 1997 (awarded by the Wiener Library, London, for the best unpublished book manuscript in contemporary European History).