Marci Shore is American assistant professor of history at Yale University. She is the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 and is the translator of Michał Glowiński’s Holocaust memoir The Black Seasons. She is currently at work on two studies: The Self Laid Bare, an examination of the central European encounters occasioned by phenomenology and structuralism in the first decades of the twentieth century; and The Taste of Ashes, an account of eastern Europe’s grappling with its memories of totalitarianism at the century’s end.