In the era of détente between 19, West Germany and Israel moved in almost opposite directions. She is currently at work on a new book on West Germany and the Soviet Jewish refugees during the last two decades of the Cold War, for which she has received research grants from the Leibniz Institute of the University of Mainz and the Henkel and Thyssen Foundations. Since her retirement, Fink has been a guest professor in China, Israel, Germany, and Australia. Two of her earlier books – The Genoa Conference of 1922 and Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and the International Protection of Minorities, 1878-1938 - were awarded the George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association, and her biography of the French historian and resistance hero Marc Bloch has been translated into six languages (most recently into Chinese). and Writing 20th Century International History: Explorations and Examples. Fink has received numerous research awards, among them from the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies, and has been awarded residential fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC and the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis.Add to Calendar 12:00:00 13:30:00 Carole Fink, 'The Transformation of a 'Special' Relationship: West Germany and Israel, 1965-1974'Ĭarole Fink, Humanities Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at The Ohio State University and a former affiliate of the Mershon Center, is the author and editor of 15 books, most recently West Germany and Israel: Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics, and the Cold War, 1965-1974 Cold War: An International History, 2nd ed.

She has also edited seven books and published some sixty articles and chapters in European International History and is currently writing a book on West German-Israeli relations between 19, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. She is the author of two prize-winning books, Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938, and The Genoa Conference: European Diplomacy, 1921-1922 as well as Marc Bloch: A Life in History, which has been translated into six languages. Carole Fink, Humanities Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at The Ohio State University and Professor of History Emerita at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, has recently published Cold War: An International History.

The Genoa Conference by Carole Fink