Michael R. Marrus (1941–2022)
Author of The Holocaust in History
About the Author
Michael R. Marrus teaches the evolution of International Humanitarian Law at the University of Toronto and is a member of the Order of Canada and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. An internationally renowned Holocaust scholar, Marrus is the author of eight books, the most recent of which is show more The Lessons of the Holocaust. His other works include the award-winning Vichy France and the Jews, written with Robert O. Paxton, and The Holocaust in History. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a visiting professor at UCLA and Cape Town University, and a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University and St. Antony's College, Oxford. He is a Senior Fellow of Massey College. show less
Image credit: Michael Marrus speaking at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem in 2012
Series
Works by Michael R. Marrus
The Politics of Assimilation: A Study of the French-Jewish Community at the Time of the Dreyfus Affair (1971) 11 copies
Some Measure of Justice: The Holocaust Era Restitution Campaign of the 1990s (George L. Mosse Series) (2009) 4 copies
Bystanders to the Holocaust Volume 1 3 copies
The Nazi Holocaust. Part 5: Public Opinion and Relations to the Jews in Nazi Europe. Volume 1 (1989) 1 copy
Nazi Holocaust: Bystanders to the Holocaust: Selected Articles v. 2 (The Nazi Holocaust) (1989) 1 copy
Nazi Holocaust: Final Solution: Selected Articles on the Implementation of Mass Murder v. 2 (The Nazi Holocaust) (1989) 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Marrus, Michael Robert
- Other names
- Marrus, Michael
- Birthdate
- 1941-02-03
- Date of death
- 2022-12-23
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Toronto
- Occupations
- Professeur (Histoire)
Historien (Holocauste, France, Histoire juive) - Organizations
- Université de Toronto (Professeur ∙ Doyen ∙ Gouverneur ∙ Histoire, 19 68 | 20 09)
Société royale du Canada (Membre) - Awards and honors
- Ordre du Canada (2008)
- Short biography
- Michael R. Marrus (1941-2022) est un professeur et historien canadien de l'Université de Toronto. Il est une expert reconnu internationalement sur l'Holocauste et l'histoire juive et française.
Né à Toronto,Michael Marrus a obtenu son BA de l'Université de Toronto en 1963 puis a obtenu sa maîtrise (1964) et son doctorat (1968) à l'Université de Californie à Berkeley.
Il a également obtenu une maîtrise en droit de l'Université de Toronto en 2005.
Michael Marrus a commencé sa carrière à l'Université de Toronto en tant que professeur adjoint d'histoire en 1968, puis est devenu professeur agrégé en 1973, professeur titulaire en 1978 et professeur émérite en 2009.
Il a également été professeur des études sur l'Holocauste Rose et Ray Wolfe. de 2000 à 2006 (et depuis 2007, en tant que chancelier Rose et Ray Wolfe professeur émérite de
Études sur l'Holocauste).
Au delà de ses fonctions d'enseignement et de recherche, Michael Marrus a rempli de nombreuses fonctions administratives, notamment au sein du conseil des gouverneurs (1987-1996, 2002-2009, 2010-) et en tant que doyen de l'École des études supérieures (1997-2004).
Le professeur Marrus a également été membre invité du St. Antony’s College d’Oxford et de l’Institute for Études avancées de l'Université hébraïque de Jérusalem et professeur invité à l'UCLA et au Université du Cap, Afrique du Sud.
Michael Marrus est l'auteur de nombreux articles et ouvrages dédiés à l'holocauste qui ont fait l'objet de multiples traductions - Nationality
- Canada
- Birthplace
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Places of residence
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Place of death
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Map Location
- Canada
- Associated Place (for map)
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Members
Reviews
This is a masterly, engrossing assessment of the vast Holocaust literature. In contrast to Lucy Dawidowicz's 1981 The Holocaust and the Historians, which protested the mistreatment of the topic by historians, Marrus (The Unwanted: European Refugees in the Twentieth Century, etc.) nonpolemically applies "the tools of historical, sociological, and political analysis to the events of the war years and to understand what happened to European Jewry as one would understand any other historical show more problem." Placing the Holocaust in a broad historical perspective, he links the centrality of anti-Semitism in Nazism to Hitler's anti-Jewish commitment and advances the argument that Nazi anti-Jewish policy wasn't set at an early point but evolved, with the plan for European-wide mass murder emerging after the military successes in 1940-41. In a keen effort to enter the minds and sensibilities of those who lived through the Holocaust, he undermines generalizations regarding European public opinion of Jews during the Holocaust, bystanders, Jewish ghetto leadership and Jewish "passivity" and "resistance." He evenhandedly surveys the various sources on Nazi offers to suspend the Final Solution and ransom the remaining Jews at the last stages of the war, and other rescue options.
Wonderfully researched and superbly written, this book is the finest available introduction to how historians write about the Holocaust. Forcefully arguing that the Holocaust must be demystified and studied as an event within history, Marrus summarizes the most recent, authoritative historical scholarship pertaining to critical themes on the Holocaust, such as the centrality of anti-Semitism to Nazism; the uniqueness of the Holocaust; the role of bystanders, collaborators, Jewish leaders. show less
Wonderfully researched and superbly written, this book is the finest available introduction to how historians write about the Holocaust. Forcefully arguing that the Holocaust must be demystified and studied as an event within history, Marrus summarizes the most recent, authoritative historical scholarship pertaining to critical themes on the Holocaust, such as the centrality of anti-Semitism to Nazism; the uniqueness of the Holocaust; the role of bystanders, collaborators, Jewish leaders. show less
18 octobre 1940 : le 'statut des Juifs' est publié. 31 juillet 1944 : le dernier convoi de déportés quitte Drancy pour Auschwitz. Ces deux faits et ces deux dates marquent le début et le terme de la politique du régime de Vichy envers les Juifs. Mise en oeuvre dès l'été 1940, la politique antisémite française aura donc d'abord été l'apanage du seul gouvernement de Vichy, sans qu'il soit besoin de pressions allemandes. Bilan : 75 000 déportés. Désormais ouvrage de référence, show more Vichy et les Juifs n'est pas seulement un remarquable document, qui étudie en détail les étapes d'une politique d'exclusion et montre avec rigueur quelles formes elle a revêtues au fil des ans ; c'est aussi une analyse exceptionnelle de précision, alimentée aux meilleures sources, de l'une des périodes les plus tragiques et les plus controversées de l'Histoire de France. show less
The primary documents are amazing; nothing tells history like those who lived it and perpetuated it. Unfortunately, the style is (as expected) rather dull and dry. It's not going to keep you at the edge of your seat, and it does sometimes feel like you're plodding through mud, but the transcripts are worth it.
Great book for me, about to teach a 'debates on the holocaust' module in History at college. Summed up the various arguments well and has got me interested in a number of the historians mentioned. If you have any interst at all in finding out a little bit more about the Holocaust than personal testimonies it is essential reading.
Awards
You May Also Like
Associated Authors
Statistics
- Works
- 36
- Members
- 812
- Popularity
- #31,426
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 7
- ISBNs
- 83
- Languages
- 4
