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Early Modern Studies) from  until , and Professor of French and Italian Literature in the Department of Romance Studies at Duke, died in Durham, North Carolina, on May , .He was born in , in Paris, the only child of Jewish parents from Poland, who had immigrated to France in .His father was deported to Germany late in  at the outset of the Occupation, and his mother, who lived with her son in hiding in Paris for the next four years, was arrested and deported in .Both parents perished at Auschwitz.The eleven-year-old Marcel was rescued by the Resistance and survived the war at La Rochelle passing for the son of a Christian family.In , the orphaned teenager was brought to the United States by a Jewish relief organization and given a home in Tennessee.After completing a B.A. at the University of Chattanooga in , he took an M.A. at Emory University in , and the following year lived in Italy on a Fulbright.He returned to the United States in  and entered the Ph.D. program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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