Marion Kaplan (born January 24, 1946) is Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at New York University.
In 2014-15, Kaplan was the J.B and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar in Residence at the Mandel Center for Advanced Study, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where she conducted research for her book into the Jewish refugee experience in Portugal.
[4] She was also Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence at the USC Shoah Foundation in 2018-19 where she delivered the keynote lecture "Did Gender Matter During the Holocaust?"
Kaplan has published several significant books in the field of German-Jewish History and Holocaust Studies including The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany (1991).
Her research draws on archival collections, newspapers and Jewish community publications, but also on diaries, letters and memoirs that shed light on individual experience and everyday life.