FOSTERING A VIBRANT RENEWAL OF JUDAISM IN POLAND
February 16, 2025
Dr. Michael Steinlauf will discuss his two books
Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust, and
This Was Not America: A Wrangle Through Jewish-Polish-American History
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Michael Steinlauf’s scholarship has framed the issues of memory for Jews descended from survivors who retained a connection to the culture of Poland. Steinlauf’s rich historical and emotional memories are spread out in moving detail. For many years, before the travel to Poland fads, Steinlauf’s work was the single reliable perspective. The impact of Bondage to the Dead (1997) was not only on English readers but on Polish readers as well. Beginning in 2014, Elzbieta Janicka initiated with Steinlauf a “river interview” that saw its English debut in 2022. Polish scholar Janicka and Steinlauf engaged in lengthy conversations spanning the years and changing political and cultural situations entitled, This Was Not America: A Wrangle Through Jewish-Polish-American History. These two books will make up the basis of a conversation that will feature Professor Steinlauf in conversation with Rabbi Haim Beliak and Dr. David Kader.
March 23, 2025
Dr. James Diamond’s forthcoming book “Raging Hassidic Sermons of R. Kalonymous Kalman Shapira”
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Dr. James Diamond’s book on “Raging Hassidic Sermons of R. Kalonymous Kalman Shapira” will soon be published. We are fortunate to hear of the unique teachings of a Hassidic master known as the Piaseczner Rebbe. R. Kalonymous Kalman Shapira continued to deliver sermons from September 1939 until the summer of 1942. Sermons from the Years of Rage and his other writings were included in the buried archives of the Warsaw Ghetto known as Oneg Shabbat.
R. Kalonymous Kalman Shapira
Dr. Diamond will apply his deep learning to introduce us to this Hassidic teacher’s profound thinking in the midst of the struggle to survive.
Dr. James A. Diamond holds the Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Waterloo. His vast writings include Jewish Theology Unbound, and Maimonides and The Shaping of the Jewish Canon, as well as numerous articles.
ARTICLE: The Buried, Raging Sermons of the Warsaw Ghetto Rabbi (April 2018)
Dr. Richard Hecht, Professor of the History of Religion, emeritus, Santa Barbara will respond.
BOOK BY DR. RICHARD HECHT: To Rule Jerusalem
April 27, 2025
Dr. Samuel Kassow’s translation and framing of Rokhl Auerbach’s Warsaw Testament
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Rokhl Auerbach’s many careers as a writer, philosopher, historian, Yiddish language advocate, and survivor are eclipsed by the outsized role she played in preserving the record of the Holocaust. In the Warsaw
Rokhl Auerbach Archive Find Warsaw
Ghetto, Emmanuel Ringelblum conceived and organized over sixty people for his Oneg Shabbat archive. Auerbach worked the Ghetto’s soup kitchen and chronicled the struggle to maintain life. Auerbach was one of three people that knew of the buried archive, She remained in Poland to work on those materials when they were discovered and to collect other testimonies.
Rokhl Auerbach at 1961 Eichman Trial
Dr. Samuel Kossow’s Who Will Write Our History is now augmented with the translation of Auerbach’s Warsaw Testament including Kassow’s annotations. Auerbach devoted her life to documenting the Warsaw Ghetto struggle through her work at Yad VaShem, initially in Yiddish and eventually in Hebrew. Roberta Grossman’s documentary, Who Will Write Our History featured the character of Auerbach.
Professor Kassow was the Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College, and was recently celebrated for over 50 years of teaching. He is the author of the seminal study Who Will Write Our History?: Rediscovering a Hidden Archive From the Warsaw Ghetto and Rokhl Auerbach’s Warsaw Testament. Kossow’s many languages brought him in contact with scholars in English, Russian, Polish, Yiddish, and Hebrew.
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