Cultural Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto: The Legacy of Rokhl Auerbach and Emanuel Ringelblum with Samuel Kassow

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. 

Dr. Samuel Kassow, Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College, holds a PhD from Princeton University and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research.

Cost: $100 for Yiddish Book Center members and $125 for nonmembers.

All sessions are held live via Zoom. Recordings will be available to all registrants. No knowledge of Yiddish language or background knowledge of the subject is required.

Questions?
Email Jennifer Young, Education Programs Manager: jyoung@yiddishbookcenter.org