The 2019 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture, hosted by the Dahrendorf Programme at the European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College, Oxford:

Marci Shore is associate professor of history at Yale University. Her research focuses on European intellectual history, in particularly twentieth and twenty-first century Central and Eastern Europe. She received her M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1996 and her PhD from Stanford University in 2001; and since 2004 has regularly been a visiting fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna. She is the translator of Michał Głowiński’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 project titled “Phenomenological Encounters: Scenes from Central Europe.” Her articles and essays include “(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); “Conversing with Ghosts: Jedwabne, Żydokomuna, 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); “In Search of Meaning after Marxism: The Komandosi, March 1968, and the Ideas that Followed” (Warsaw: The History of a Jewish Metropolis); “At the Border of Memory and Truth” (New York Review of Books); “Tevye’s Daughters: Jews and European Modernity” (Contemporary European History); “The Sacred and the Myth: Havel’s Greengrocer, Twenty Years Later” (East European Politics and Society); “Surreal Love in Prague” (TLS); “Out of the Desert: A Heidegger for Poland” (TLS); “Rescuing the Yiddish Ukraine (New York Review of Books); “Can We See Ideas? On Evocation, Experience, and Empathy” (Modern European Intellectual History); “Reading Tony Judt in Wartime Ukraine” (The New Yorker); “The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things are Falling Apart.” (The New Yorker); “Die Zerbrechlichkeit des Liberalismus oder Das Ende vom ‘Ende der Geschichte’” (Transit: Europäische Revue), “A Pre-History of Post-Truth, East and West” (Eurozine and Public Seminar); “The Poet Laureate of Hybrid War” (Foreign Policy); and “Poland Digs a Memory Hole” (New York Times).