Samuel Kassow

Samuel David Kassow (* 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 in hiding under a barn persecution of the Jews, his father was imprisoned during the Second World War by the Soviets in the GULAG.

Kassow grew up in New Haven, Connecticut. His BA, he earned in 1966 from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, his Master of Science degree in 1968 at the London School of Economics. He earned his Ph.D. at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, in 1976. Kassow was for many years proprietor of the Charles Northam Professor at Trinity College.

The main work of the publication can apply on or to any part of the secret archive by Emanuel Ringelblum and the other from the Warsaw ghetto, which is published in 2010 in German.

Kassows wife Lisa is director of the Zachs Hillel House at Trinity College. The couple has 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.
  • Along with Edith Clowes and James West as editor: 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
  • Ringelblum's legacy. The Secret Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, Rowohlt, Reinbek, 2010. 750 pp. ISBN 978-3-498-03547-1. (Reviews in perlentaucher.de Original:. Who will write our history: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, Indiana University Press, 2007)
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