Samuel Kassow

Samuel David Kassow (born October 3, 1946 in Stuttgart ) is an American historian who deals with the history of the Ashkenazim in Europe.

Life

Kassow was born in a camp for displaced persons in Stuttgart. His mother had survived the persecution of the Jews in hiding under a barn , and his father was locked up in the GULAG by the Soviets during the Second World War .

Kassow grew up in New Haven , Connecticut . He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1966 from Trinity College , Hartford , Connecticut, and his Master of Science in 1968 from the London School of Economics . He received his Ph.D. at Princeton University , Princeton , New Jersey , in 1976. Kassow held the Charles Northam Professorship at Trinity College for many years .

The main work is the publication on or from parts of the secret archive of Emanuel Ringelblum and others from the Warsaw Ghetto , which appeared in German in 2010 and was filmed as a documentary film in 2018 under the title The Secret Archive in the Warsaw Ghetto .

Kassow's wife Lisa is the director of the Zachs Hillel House at Trinity College. The couple have two daughters.

Publications (selection)

• Students, Professors, and the State in Tsarist Russia: 1884 - 1917 , University of California Press , Berkeley / Los Angeles 1989 ISBN 0-520-05760-0 .
• Together with Edith Clowes and James West as editors: Between Tsar and People: Educated Society and the Quest for a Public Identity in Imperial Russia , Princeton University Press Princeton, New Jersey, 1991 ISBN 0-691-03153-3 .
• The Distinctive Life of East European Jewry , YIVO , New York 2004
• Marigold's Legacy. The secret archive of the Warsaw Ghetto , Rowohlt, Reinbek, 2010. 750 pp. ISBN 978-3-498-03547-1 . ( Reviews at perlentaucher.de ).
  • Engl. Original edition: Who will Write our History: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, USA 2007, ISBN 978-0-253349088 .

Foreword in

• The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto by Anonymous Members of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police , translated and edited by Samuel Schalkowsky. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, USA 2014, ISBN 978-0-253012838 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Samuel Kassow in the catalog of the German National Library