At Congregation B'nai Israel ~ 3830 NW 16th Blvd, Gainesville, 32605
This event is made possible by a partnership between the Jewish Council of North Central Florida and the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida.
With additional sponsorship from:
Dr. Harry Krop & Dawn Burgess-Krop
Temple Shir Shalom
Thank you to Congregation B'nai Israel for hosting this annual event.
Please click on any of the logos on this page to visit the organization's website. Click on the photos of Kassow and Ringelblum to learn more about them.
Dr. Sam Kassow is the Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. This talk is based on his book, Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, which has been translated into eight languages. Dr. Kassow will remain after the conclusion of the program to facilitate discussion.
Emanuel Ringelbum was a Polish-Jewish historian, politician and social worker, known for his Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto and Notes on the Refugees in Zbaszyn which chronicled the deportation of Jews from the town of Zbaszyn. He is best known for his Archives of the Warsaw Ghetto (the Oyneg Shabes Archive), which he and other historians created and hid in milk cans to document the atrocities of the Nazis.