*IN YIDDISH* Samuel Kassow, Varshe: der oyfkum fun a yidisher metropoliye

When and Where

Wednesday, January 08, 2025 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Room 318
Jackman Humanities Building
170 St. George Street

Speakers

Samuel Kassow (Trinity College,Connecticut)

Description

Himel Family Yiddish Lecture Series
Co-sponsored by the Al and Malka Green Fund in Yiddish Studies

Samuel Kassow (Trinity College, Connecticut)

Varshe: der oyfkum fun a yidisher metropoliye

By 1914 more Jews lived in Warsaw than in any other city in Europe. What caused the extraordinary growth of the Jewish Metropolis between 1862 and 1914, and how did it affect the cultural and social development of Polish Jewry?

 

Samuel Kassow, Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College, holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has been been a visiting professor at many institutions and was on the team of scholars that planned the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Among his  books is Who will Write our History: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Secret Ghetto Archive (Indiana, 2007), which received the Orbis Prize of the AAASS and which was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award. It has been translated into eight languages. His translation of Rachel Auerbach's Warsaw Testament has just been published by the White Goat Press. A child of Holocaust survivors, Professor Kassow was born in a Displaced Persons camp in Germany.

 

 

This event is conducted entirely in Yiddish.

 

 

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This event will be delivered in-person in JHB318 (170 St. George Street) on Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at 3 PM.

 

Sponsors

Himel Family Yiddish Lecture Series, Al and Malka Green Fund in Yiddish Studies

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170 St. George Street

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