She specializes in the history of literary and political engagement with Marxism and phenomenology. Shore is the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, a milieu biography of Polish and Polish-Jewish writers drawn to Marxism in the twentieth century, of "The Taste of Ashes," a study of the presence of the communist and Nazi past in today's eastern Europe, and the translator of Michal Glowinski's Holocaust memoir, The Black Seasons. Since 2005, Shore has been married to Timothy Snyder, professor of history at Yale.[1]