Kaplan has published several significant books in the field of German-Jewish History and Holocaust Studies including
The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany (1991). Her book,
Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosua, 1940-1945 (Museum of Jewish Heritage, NY, 2008), was a finalist for the Jewish Book Award (2008). In 2011, her book
Gender & Jewish History (
Indiana University Press), written with co-editor
Deborah Dash Moore in honor of historian
Paula Hyman, was awarded the National Jewish Book Award in the category of Anthologies and Collections. Her most recent book is: ''Hitler's Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal'' (Yale, 2020). Her research draws on archival collections, newspapers and Jewish community publications, but also on diaries, letters and memoirs that shed light on individual experience and everyday life. All of her books have been translated into German. == References ==