Podcasts of Dr. Samuel Kassow's Lectures at Stanford University (March 11) and at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art & Life (March 12)
Dr. Samuel Kassow, Lisa Pleskow Kassow (Director, Trinity College Hillel), Tad Taube (Chairman, Taube Philanthropies), and Shana Penn (Executive Director, Taube Philanthropies), at Stanford University following Dr. Kassow's lecture on March 11.
As part of Taube Philanthropies' and POLIN Museum's Global Education Outreach Program, Dr. Samuel Kassow lectured to university and community audiences in the San Francisco Bay Area on March 10-13.
The first lecture, entitled "'The Jewish Street': The Interwar Gallery in the New POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews," took place at Stanford University on March 11, co-hosted by the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford. Dr. Kassow discussed the challenges for a historian in presenting complex historical narratives in a multidimensional exhibition form without diffusing fact and meaning.
The second lecture, entitled "Warsaw: The Jewish Metropolis," took place at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art & Life, in Berkeley on March 12, co-hosted by U.C. Berkeley's Center for Jewish Studies, the Graduate Theological Union's Center for Jewish Studies, and the Magnes. Dr. Kassow described Jewish life in Poland from the partition period through the interwar period, and presented Warsaw as a vibrant hub of Jewish social, cultural, and intellectual life.
The Global Education Outreach Program plans to host Dr. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Chief Curator of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in the San Francisco Bay Area in the autumn 2015.
Listen to the podcasts of Dr. Samuel Kassow's
- Lectures at Stanford University (March 11)
and - at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art & Life (March 12).
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About the Global Education Outreach Program:
The Global Education Outreach Program (GEOP) aims to deepen and expand the impact of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews worldwide by forging educational partnerships that further the study of Polish Jews across all fields and disciplines. The Global Education Outreach Program supports exchanges with academic and research institutions in the United States, Poland, Europe and Israel.
About Dr. Samuel Kassow:
Dr. Samuel Kassow is the Director of the Jewish Studies Program and the Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College in Connecticut. He has taught courses in Jewish history at Harvard, Princeton and Wesleyan, as well as at universities in Tel Aviv and Moscow. From 2010-2013 he served as the Chair of the Holocaust Division of the Association of Jewish Studies. Dr. Kassow is co-curator of the 19th Century and Interwar Galleries of the new POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in Warsaw.
He is the author of Who will Write our History: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive (Indiana University Press, 2007), winner of Orbis Prize of American Association for Advancement of Slavic Studies and finalist for 2008 National Jewish Book Award, which has appeared in German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Hebrew, Polish. The book is set to be adapted for the screen by director Roberta Grossman and executive producer Nancy Spielberg. Kassow is also in the process of completing a highly anticipated book called Listen and Believe: The Ghetto Reportage of Peretz Opoczynski and Jozeph Zelkowicz, to be released this year by Yale University Press.
On February 16, 2015, Dr. Kassow was honored in Warsaw, Poland, for his service to Polish Culture. Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage Malgorzata Omilanowska presented a medal to Kassow in a special ceremony.
