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SUMMARY:Warsaw Testament – Samuel Kassow
DESCRIPTION:Until recently\, very few people knew about Rokhl Auerbach\, a remarkable woman who survived the Holocaust and then dedicated her life to preserving the memories of its victims. Professor Samuel D. Kassow will discuss Auerbach’s memoir Warsaw Testament\, which paints a vivid portrait of that city’s prewar Yiddish literary and artistic community atruction at the hands of the Nazis. This book received a National Jewish Book Award in the cat­e­go­ry of Holo­caust Mem­oir. \nSamuel Kassow\, Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College\, holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has been been a visiting professor at many institutions and was on the team of scholars that planned the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Among his books is Who will Write our History: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Secret Ghetto Archive (Indiana\, 2007)\, which received the Orbis Prize of the AAASS and which was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award. It has been translated into eight languages. His translation of Rachel Auerbach’s Warsaw Testament\, published by the White Goat Press\, received a National Jewish Book Award in March 2025. A child of Holocaust survivors\, Professor Kassow spent his earliest years in a Displaced Persons camp in Germany. \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/warsaw-testament-samuel-kassow/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 306\, 306 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Michael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies
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SUMMARY:EVENT POSTPONED: Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in  Literature and Art – Sarah Phillips Casteel
DESCRIPTION:The event\, Black Lives under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art with Sarah Phillips Casteel (Carleton University)\, has been postponed. A new date will be announced once it is finalized. \nWe apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding. Please stay tuned for further updates. \n  \nIn a little-known chapter of World War II\, Black people living in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were subjected to ostracization\, forced sterilization\, and incarceration in internment and concentration camps. In the absence of public commemoration\, Black writers and visual artists have preserved the stories of these forgotten victims of the Third Reich. Their works of memoir\, poetry\, fiction\, painting and photomontage illuminate both the relationship between creativity and wartime survival and the role of art in the formation of collective memory. Probing the boundaries of Holocaust memory and representation\, this talk draws attention to a largely unrecognized artistic corpus that challenges the erasure of Black wartime history. \nSarah Phillips Casteel is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Professor of English at Carleton University. She has written and co-edited five books\, the most recent of which is Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art (Columbia University Press\, 2024). She has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Vienna and Potsdam and visiting fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg. The recipient of a Canadian Jewish Literary Award and a Polanyi Prize\, she is a member of the Academic Council of the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University. \n \nBlack Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art \nSarah Phillips Casteel (Carleton University) \nIn conversation with Ben Ratskoff (Occidental College) \nIntroduction by/Moderated by Todd Presner (UCLA) \nMichael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/black-lives-under-nazism-making-history-visible-in-literature-and-art-sarah-phillips-casteel/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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