Samuel Kassow (Bonus)

Samuel Kassow is the Charles H. Northam
Professor of History at Trinity College, and is recognized as
one of the world’s leading scholars on the Holocaust and the
Jews of Poland. Kassow was born in 1946 in a DP-camp in
Stuttgart, Germany and grew up speaking Yiddish. Kassow
attended the London School of Economics and Princeton
University where he earned a PhD in 1976 with a study about
students and professors in Tsarist Russia. He is widely known
for his 2007 book Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel
Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive
(Indiana University Press). He was elected a Fellow of the
American Academy for Jewish Research, has won numerous awards,
and has lectured widely.


Sholem Beinfeld led these interviews with
Professors Samuel Kassow and Elissa Bemporad, who, along with
numerous other academic experts, will soon take part in the
YIVO's conference JEWS IN AND AFTER THE 1917 RUSSIAN
REVOLUTION, Sun/Mon Nov 5-6. See: https://yivo.org/1917


Bonus podcast: some of the interviews could
not be included in the broadcast due to time limitations. This
is a bonus podcast with material that could not be included in
the original broadcast on Novermber 1, 2017.