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Carol Sicherman

Carol Sicherman taught English at Cornell and the City University of New York. Initially a specialist in 17th-century English literature, she devoted twenty-five years to research on anglophone African literature and history. In recent years, she has written two books stemming from family papers: "Rude Awakenings: An American Historian's Encounters with Nazism, Communism, and McCarthyism" (2011) and "'Dear and faithful Matel leb': Ninety-nine Galician Postcards, 1905-21 (submitted to a publisher). Both books concern emigration to some extent: German Jews escaping Nazism in the 1930s, and Polish Jews escaping anti-Semitism following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.