This course will use wartime writings from the Warsaw Ghetto, as well as postwar memoirs, to examine the cultural and spiritual life of the Warsaw Ghetto. There will be special emphasis on readings from the Oyneg Shabes archive in the Warsaw Ghetto and from the recently translated memoirs of Rokhl (Rachel) Auerbach. Of the 60 Jews who worked with Ringelblum in the secret archive, Auerbach was one of only three survivors. Her postwar memoirs are a moving testament to the writers, poets, historians, journalists, and ordinary Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
All registrants will receive a 25% discount on the book “Warsaw Testament” by Rokhl Auerbach, translated by Samuel Kassow, from the Yiddish Book Center shop.
Samuel Kassow, Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College, holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research. From 2006 until 2013 he was the lead historian for two galleries of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, which opened in 2014. Professor Kassow is the author of “Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum and the Secret Ghetto Archive” (Indiana University Press, 2007), which received the Orbis Prize of the AAASS; was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award; and has been translated into eight languages. A child of Holocaust survivors, Kassow was born in a displaced-persons camp in Germany.
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