Nov

4 2021

Professor Sam Kassow, Trinity College: “Who Will Write Our History?”

8:30PM - 10:00PM  

Congregation Beth Israel 701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119

Contact Tracy Mozingo Congregation Israel
8602338215
hrosenbaum@cbict.org
http://cbict.org

This is a virtual event!
In 1940, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the ghetto’s inhabitants. For three years, members of the Oyneg Shabes worked in secret to chronicle the lives of hundreds of thousands as they suffered starvation, disease, and deportation by the Nazis. Shortly before the Warsaw ghetto was emptied and razed in 1943, the Oyneg Shabes buried thousands of documents from this massive archive in milk cans and tin boxes, ensuring that the voice and culture of a doomed people would outlast the efforts of their enemies to silence them. In 2018, Professor Kassow’s book, Who Will Write Our History?, was made into a film directed by Roberta Grossman. Program registrants will receive a link to view the film at their convenience in the two week period prior to the program, so be sure to register early!
Samuel D. Kassow is the Charles Northam Professor of History at Trinity College. He is author of Students, Professors, and the State in Tsarist Russia, 1884-1917 and editor (with Edith W. Clowes and James L. West) of Between Tsar and People: The Search for a Public Identity in Tsarist Russia. He has lectured on Russian and Jewish history in many countries, including Israel, Russia, and Poland.