Marrus, Michael R.
MARRUS, MICHAEL R.
MARRUS, MICHAEL R. (1941– ), Canadian historian, author. Marrus was born in Toronto, Canada. He is one of the foremost Canadian historians of modern Europe, specializing in the Jews of France and in the Holocaust. He received his B.A. at the University of Toronto in 1963, and his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964 and 1968, respectively. In 1968 he joined the Department of History at the University of Toronto and served as dean of the School of Graduate Studies from 1997 to 2004. He was the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies from 2000. Marrus was also affiliated with St. Antony's College (Oxford), the University of California, Los Angeles, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the University of Cape Town. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including appointment as a fellow in the Royal Society of Canada and a Guggenheim Fellowship; he was a fellow of the Holocaust Royal Historical Society. Marrus published more than 100 articles, reviews, and books. His most notable works include The Politics of Assimilation: A Study of the French Jewish Community at the Time of the Dreyfus Affair (1971); with Robert Paxton, Vichy France and the Jews (1981); The Unwanted: European Refugees in the Twentieth Century (1985); The Holocaust in History (1987); and Mr. Sam: The Life and Times of Samuel Bronfman (1991). He was editor of The Nazi Holocaust: Historical Articles on the Destruction of European Jews (15 vols., 1992) and The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1945–46: A Documentary History, (1997); and coeditor of Contemporary Antisemitism: Canada and the World (2005). Among his most important contributions to the study of the Holocaust are his works dealing with the Vichy government and the Third Reich, the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, and the role of the Vatican during the Holocaust. In 1999 Marrus was appointed to an interfaith team of historians, the Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission on the Vatican and the Holocaust, charged with examining the role played by the Vatican during the Holocaust.
[Frank Bialystok (2nd ed.)]