Samuel D. Kassow

Samuel Kassow, Charles H. Northam Professor of History Emeritus at Trinity College, holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University. Since 2006, he has been the lead historian for two of the galleries of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Professor Kassow is the author of Students, Professors, and the State in Tsarist Russia: 1884–1917 (1989), The Distinctive Life of East European Jewry (2003), and Who Will Write Our History: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Secret Ghetto Archive (2007), which received the Orbis Prize and was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award. It has been translated into seven languages. He is also coeditor of Between Tsar and People (1993) and editor of In Those Nightmarish Days: The Ghetto Reportage of Peretz Opoczynski and Josef Zelkowicz (2015). He is the coeditor, with David G. Roskies, of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 9: Catastrophe and Rebirth, 1939–1973.