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SAMUEL D. KASSOW
EMPLOYMENT ADDRESS: Box 1301 Trinity College Hartford, CT 06106 (860) 297-2390 DATE OF BIRTH: PLACE OF BIRTH: October 3, 1946 Stuttgart, Germany HOME ADDRESS: 28 Vanderbilt Road West Hartford, CT 06119 (860) 232-9874

EDUCATION: B.A. (cum laude) Trinity College, Hartford, CT, 1966 [Link]. London School of Economics, 1968 Ph.D. Princeton University, 1976

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT:

2002Charles Northam Professor, Trinity College 1988-2002 Professor of History, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 1995-Present Adjunct Professor of Jewish History, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn . 1978-1988 1976-1978 1972-1976 Associate Professor of History, Trinity College, Hartford, CT Assistant Professor of History, Trinity College Instructor of History, Trinity College

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: 2002 1998 Visiting Professor of History, Princeton University Visiting Professor of History, Jewish Theological Seminary Visiting Professor of History, Wesleyan University Dana Research Professor of History, Trinity College, Hartford, CT.

1998 1991-1993

1993,1995,2002 Project Judaica Visiting Professor of Jewish History, Moscow Humanities University, Moscow, Russia (taught undergraduate courses in East European Jewish Historiography and in Modern East European Jewish History 1990, 1995, 2002 Visiting Professor of History, University of . Connecticut, Storrs, CT (taught graduate courses in Soviet history, Modern Jewish history)

1990

Lady Davis Visiting Professor of History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Russian Intellectual History) Visiting Associate Professor of History, Wesleyan University (taught undergraduate course in Modern Russian History)

1984

ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS:

Summer Research Fellow, US Memorial Holocaust Museum 2004 IREX Travel Grant to Poland 2000 IREX Travel Grant to Russia, 1992 NEH Summer Seminar Grant, 1992 NEH Summer Research Grant, 1988 ACLS Travel Grant, 1988 NEH Conference Grant, 1986 IREX Fellow, University of Warsaw, 1985 ACLS Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1979 IREX Senior Fellow, Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR, 1978-79 IREX Fellow, Leningrad State University, Leningrad, USSR, 1971-72 Foreign Area Fellowship, 1970-71 Junior Associate Member, Saint Anthonys College, Oxford University, 1969-70 Princeton National Fellowship, 1968-69 Danforth Fellow, 1966-70 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1966 Fulbright Scholarship to U.K., 1966-67 Phi Beta Kappa, 1966 Holland Scholarship for Highest Rank in Class, 1964-65 OTHER EMPLOYMENT:

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1993, 1995 1989-1991 1989, 1990 Lecturer, Nahum Goldmann Leadership Seminars in Jewish Studies, Zvenigorod, Russia Chief Consultant, University of Connecticut PolishJewish Archives Project Academic Leader, Smithsonian Institution Study Tour of Poland

TEACHING AREAS:

Modern Jewish history Russian and Soviet history Holocaust Modern German history Modern European history Modern European Intellectual history LANGUAGES: PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS: English, Russian, Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish, German, French

Students, Professors, and the State inTsarist Russia: 1884-1917, University of California Press, 1989 Between Tsar and People: the Search for a Public Identity in Tsarist Russia, Edith Clowes, Samuel Kassow, James West eds. Princeton University Press, 1991 The Distinctive Life of East European Jewry YIVO, 2004

Who will Write our History: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive Indiana University Press, 2007

WORK IN PROGRESS

Two Jewish Cities: Vilna and Warsaw (Under contract with Indiana University Press)

ARTICLES: Shtetl and Jewish Historiography in Eastern Europe Two master articles to appear in Encyclopedia of East European Jewry, Yale University Press(2008)

Articles on Emanuel Ringelblum; Rachel Auerbach; Adam Czerniakow; Mordecai Anielewicz, Left Poalei Tsiyon to appear in Encyclopedia of East European Jewry, Yale University Press(2008)

Introduction in Steven Katz. ed. The Shtetl and Jewish Culture(New York University Press, 2007)

The Interwar Shtetl in Poland in Steven Katz. ed. The Shtetl and Jewish Culture(New York University Press, 2007)

Emanuel Ringelblum and Jewish Society, Michael, Institute of Diaspora Studies, Tel Aviv University, 2004

The Uniqueness of Jewish Vilna, in Larisa Lempertiene ed. Vilniaus Zydu intelektualinis gyvenimas(Vilnius, 2004)

W Sluzbie Historii: Przypadek Emanuela Ringelbluma in Eleonora Bergman and Olga Zienkiewicz eds. Zydzi Warszawy, (Warsaw, 2003) A Stone under Historys Wheel, Pakentrager, Winter, 2003 Polish-Jewish relations in the writings of Emanuel Ringelblum, in Joshua Zimmerman ed. Contested Memories: Polish-Jewish relations during the Second World War, Rutgers University Press, 2003

Rachel Auerbach in Lillian Kremer ed. Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature Routledge, 2002 Der Bund, Oyfn Shvel, January, 2000 The Left Poalei Tsiyon and Yiddish Culture in Interwar Poland, in Michael Krutikov and Gennadi Estraikh eds. Yiddish and the Left, Oxford Studies in Yiddish, 2001 Emanuel Ringelblum y los archivos Oneg Shabes, Reflexiones sobre el significado del Holocausto: Acta Sociologica, 1999, Nos. 26-27 The Left Poalei Tsiyon in Interwar Poland in Zvi Gitelman ed. Bundism and Zionism Between the Two Wars, (Pittsburgh University Press, 2003) Two Ghetto Diaries: Emanuel Ringelblum and Herman Kruk in Robert Shapiro ed. Individualizing the Holocaust, Ktav, 1999 The Russian Professor: Scholar or Civil Servant? in Harley Balzer ed. Professions in Tsarist Russia. M.E. Sharpe, 1995 The Russian University Statute of 1863 in John Bushnell and Ben Eklof eds. Russias Great Reforms, Indiana University Press, 1994 pp. 247-263 Di gezelshaftlikhe tetigkayt fun Zalmen Reyzen Yivo Bleter, Volume 2, 1994, pp. 67-97 Universitetskii Ustav 1863ogo Goda: Novaia Tochka Zreniia in Larissa G. Zakharova ed. Velikie Reformy v Rossii 1856-1871 Moscow University Press, 1992, pp. 317-334

Jewish Communal Politics in Transition: the Vilna Kehile, 1919-1920 Yivo Annual, Northwestern University Press 1991, pp. 61-91 The Problem of the Middle in Late Imperial Russian Society and Russias Unrealized Civil Society in Between Tsar and People, Princeton University Press, 1991, pp. 3-14, 367-371 Di politishe tetigkayt fun der ershter demokratisher yidisher kehile in Vilne: 1919-1920, Oyfn Shvel, Winter, 1990

The Shtetl in Transition , Stephen M. Cohen and Deborah Dash Moore eds. Jewish Settlement and Community in the Modern Western World Susquehanna University Press, 1990, pp. 56-92

Community and Identity in the Interwar Shtetl in Yisrael Gutman, Khone Shmeruk, Ezra Mendelsohn and Jehuda Reinharz eds. The Jews of Poland Between the Two Wars New England University Press, 1989 , pp. 198-220 Soviet Jewry and American Aid Conservative Judaism, Summer 1980, pp. 79-84 Trotsky and the Bulletin of the Opposition: a Study of the Left in the 1930s Studies in Comparative Communism , Summer 1977, pp. 184-197

State and University in Tsarist Russia: 1907-1914 Slavic and European Education Review, Fall, 1977 REVIEWS:

Review of Jeffrey Shandler ed. Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland before the Holocaust; to appear in Studies in Contemporary Jewry Review of Ela Bauer, Between Poles and Jews: the Development of Nahum Sokolovs Political Thought; to appear in Slavic Review Review of Sean Martin, Jewish Life in Cracow 1918:1939; to appear in Association for Jewish Studies Review

Review of Joshua Zimmerman, Poles, Jews, and the Politics of Nationality, American Historical Review, February 2005. Review of Stephen Paulsson, The Hidden Jews of Warsaw, Journal of Modern History, June, 2005 Review of Herman Kruk, The Last Days of Jerusalem of Lithuania to appear in Polin,Volume 17, 2005

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Review of Peter Konecny Builders and Deserters: Students State and Community in Leningrad, 1917-1941 Journal of Social History, Winter, 2003 Review of Larry Holmes Stalins School: Moscow School No.25, Slavic Review, Spring 2002 Review of David Wartenweiler, Civil Society and Academic Debate in Russia., American Historical Review Spring 2001 Review of Michael David Fox, Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks 1918-1929, Slavic Review, Winter, 1999 Review of James West and Iurii Petrov eds. Merchant Moscow: Images of Russias Vanished Bourgeoisie, Russian Review, Spring, 2000 Review of Regina Renz, Spolecznosci Malomiasteczkowe w Wojewodztwie Kieleckim 1918-1939 in Polin, 1998 Review of Krzystof Urbanski, Kieleccy Zydzi, in Polin , 1998 Review of Adina Cimet, Ashkenazy Jews in Mexico: Ideologies in the Structuring of a Community, Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos, December 1996 Review of Christine Ruane, Gender, Class and the Professionalization of Russian City Teachers 1860-1914 in American Historical Review, October, 1996 Review of Yaacov Roi ed. Jews and Jewish Life in Russia and the Soviet Union in Slavic Review , October, 1996 Review of Shimon Redlich, Tekhiya al Tnai in Studies in Contemporary Jewry, 1995 Review of YIVO ANNUAL: VOLUME 21 in Slavic Review, Winter 1994 Review of Timothy Wiles ed. Poland Between the Wars: 1918-39 in Slavic Review, Spring 1993 Review of Stephen Corrsin, Warsaw Before the First World War in Slavic Review, Spring 1993 Review of Daniella Neumann, Studentinnen aus dem Russischen Reich in der Schweiz(1867- 1914) in Canadian-American Slavic Studies, No. 2, 1993 Review of R.G. Eimontova, Russkie Universitety na grani dvukh epokh in Jahrbuecher fuer Geschichte Osteuropas, 1992, Vol. 3 Review of James Flynn, The University Reform of Tsar Alexander I, 1802-1835 in History of Education Quarterly, September, 1990 Review of Ezra Mendelsohn, The Jews of East Central Europe between the Two Wars in Russian Review, Winter, 1986 Review of Silke Spieler, Autonomie oder Reglementierung in Russian Review, Spring 1983

JOURNALISM: (Selected List) Killers in White Gowns, Forward, October 17, 2003

The Genius of Place, The Pakentrager, Summer 2001 Emanuel Ringelblum, der kodosh un historiker, Tsukunft, Summer, 2001 When Neighbors Indifference Gave Way to Massacre, Forward, April 20, 2001 Jewish Life in Vilna, Merian, 1992 Should Soviet Jews Leave? Tikkun, September, 1990 Can we count on Perestroika? Tikkun, November 1988 After the Crisis The Nation, March 8, 1980

SCHOLARLY TALKS: The Warsaw Ghetto in the Writings of Rachel Auerbach, Annual Conference of Association of Jewish Studies, Washington DC, December, 2005

Four Lectures given in Third International Yiddish Research Seminar, Tel Aviv University, June 2005

Problems and Issues in Jewish Politics in Interwar Poland, Jewish Studies Lecture, Yale University, October 2004 Pell Lectures in Holocaust Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, April 2004 Polish-Jewish Relations in Emanuel Ringelblums Writings, Conference on Emanuel Ringelblum: the Man and the Historian, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel, March 2004 The Place of Emanuel Ringelblum in Polish-Jewish Historiography, Colloquium on East European Jewish Studies, University of Pennsylvania, April 2003 Vilna as a Jewish Civil Society, Conference on Jewish Urban History, Princeton University, April 2002 Documenting the Holocaust: the Oneg Shabes Archive, New Perspectives on the Holocaust, Princeton University, March 2002

The Shtetl in Interwar Poland, International Conference on the Shtetl in Jewish History, Boston University, November 2001 The Left Poalei Tsiyon and Yiddish Culture, Conference on Yiddish Culture in the Modern World, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, October 2001 The Left Poalei Tsiyon and Yiddish Oxford Jewish Studies Conference on Yiddish and the Left, All Souls College Oxford, England , July 2000

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Polish-Jewish Relations in the Writings of Emanuel Ringelblum, Conference on Polish-Jewish Relations during the Holocaust and After: New Perspectives, Conference held at Yeshiva University, April, 2000 Yankev Vygodsky and Vilna Jewry, Association of Jewish Studies, Boston Mass. December, 1998 The Rise of the Jewish Metropolis: Warsaw in the Modern Era and Resistance and History in the Warsaw Ghetto, Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in Jewish Studies, Indiana University, November, 1998 Maxim Vinaver in Tsarist Russia , Russian State Humanities University. Moscow Russia, July 1998 The Future of Russian Jewry, Russian Research Center, Harvard University, May 1998 The Left Poalei Tsiyon in Interwar Poland Conference on Bundism and Zionism, Frankel Center of Jewish Studies, University of Michigan, February 1998 Between History and Memory: Emanuel Ringelblum in the Warsaw Ghetto, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, November 1997 Maxim Vinaver, Simon Dubnow, and the Problem of Russian Jewish Identity. World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem Israel, July, 1997 Jewish Warsaw UCLA, Jewish Studies Series on Cities in Europe, June, 1997 Problems in the Social History of the Warsaw Ghetto Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November, 1996 The Shtetl Revisited University of Iowa, Iowa City, November, 1996 Study of the Holocaust in Contemporary Russia . Lessons and Legacies Conference, Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana, November, 1996 Jewish Liberal Politics in Tsarist Russia First Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York, April, 1996 The Time Capsules from Nowolipie Street: Inside the Oyneg Shabes Archive National Yiddish Book Center Program Yiddish Writing in the Nazi Ghettos Malibu, California, December, 1995 Emanuel Ringelblum as a social historian of the Warsaw Ghetto (in Russian) Jewish Studies Series, Moscow State Humanities University, November, 1995 Shaping a Russian Jewish Identity: Maxim Vinaver in the Public Arena YIVO-NYU Conference on Probing Cultural Boundaries, 1840-1940: a Century of East European Jewish Life in Transition New York, April 1995 Two Ghetto Diaries: Herman Kruk and Emmanuel Ringelblum Yeshiva University Conference on Individualizing the Holocaust, New York, October, 1993

The Bund: a Reappraisal YIVO Yiddish Lecture Series, New York, April, 1993 Vilna Jewry in the First World War (in Yiddish) Conference on Jewish History in Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania, March 1993 Russian Jewish Historiography (in Russian) Moscow Jewish Historical Society, Moscow, Russia, February, 1993 Foreign Models of University Reform in Tsarist Russia American Historical Association, Chicago, December, 1991 University and Society in Tsarist Russia Steven Kaplan Memorial Lecture, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, December, 1990 Jewish Politics in Interwar Vilna (in Yiddish) YIVO Conference on Jewish Vilna, New York, October, 1990 Conceptualizing the Russian Student Movement Fourth International Slavic Conference, Harrogate, England July, 1990 The Vilna Jewish Council: 1919-1922 (in Yiddish) YIVO Conference on Jewish Politics in Eastern Europe, New York, September, 1989 Recent Research on Polish-Jewish Social History (in Polish) Institute of Jewish Studies, Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland, July, 1989 Universities in the Great Reforms: the 1863 Statute NEH US-USSR Conference on the Great Reforms, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA., May 1989 The Problem of Public Culture in Late Imperial Russia Annual Meeting of American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii, November, 1988 Building a New Community: Vilna Jewry in World War I International Conference on the History of Polish Jewry, Jerusalem, Israel, February, 1988 The Modernization of Vilna Jewry Jewish Studies Colloquium, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, December, 1987 What is Obshchestvennost? NEH Conference on Obshchestvennost in Tsarist Russia, Purdue University, West Lafayette Indiana, September, 1987 Social Tensions in the Interwar Polish Shtetl Schwartz Memorial Lecture, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, February, 1987

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Philanthropy, Culture and Politics in Vilna: 1915-1919 Association of Jewish Studies, Boston, MA., December, 1986 The Russian Universities in the Revolution of 1905 American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana, November, 1986 The Polish Shtetl in the Interwar Period International Conference on the History of Polish Jewry, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, April, 1986 The University and the Middle Class Ideal in Tsarist Russia American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New York, New York, November, 1984 The Russian Ministry of Education 1884-1914 American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Kansas City, Missouri, October, 1983 Community and Identity in the Polish Shtetl Conference on Jewish Settlement and Community in the Western World, City University of New York, New York, NY, March, 1983 The State and the Professoriate in Tsarist Russia NEH-AAASS Conference on Professions and Professionalization in Tsarist Russia University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, June, 1982 The Ideology of the Russian Student Movement South Western Social Science Association, San Antonio, Texas, March 1982 The Development of an Academic Profession in Tsarist Russia American Association for The Advancement of Slavic Studies, Monterey, California, September, 1980

PUBLIC TALKS: (selected list)

Four Lectures at annual Limmud-Oz Forum, Melbourne Australia, June 2006

From under the Rubble Annual Melissa Rosenblatt Memorial Lecture at National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst Massachusetts, May 2003 Jewish Politics in Interwar Poland(in Yiddish), Jewish Public Library, Montreal Canada, September 2001 Emanuel Ringelblum in the Warsaw Ghetto(in Yiddish), annual meeting of Central Yiddish Culture Organization, New York, New York, May 1998

Simon Dubnow and the development of Jewish Historiography in Eastern Europe

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(in Yiddish), Friends of the YIVO, Miami Beach Florida, January, 1997 Yerushalyim dLita in Modern Jewish History. Three lectures, National Yiddish Book Center Weekend Seminar, UCLA, Los Angeles California, December, 1996 Historians and the Holocaust. Three lectures at Beth El Synagogue, West Hartford, Conn., September, 1996 Cultural Politics in the Vilna Ghetto Annual Pinhas Berniker Yiddish Lecture, University of Hartford, Hartford Conn, May, 1996 Jewish Politics in Poland between the Wars (in Yiddish) Miami Yivo Lecture Series, Miami Florida, January, 1996 Out of the Ghetto Thirteen lectures on Modern Jewish History given at the Beit Midrash Adult Education Institute, West Hartford, Conn. 1995-2002 Russian Jewry during Perestroika Hopkins Seminar, Yale University, July, 1995 The Rise of Russian Jewry Four Lectures in Russian Nahum Goldman seminar. Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, Zvenigorod, Russia July 1995 The Development of Modern Jewish Ideologies in Eastern Europe (in Yiddish) Eight lectures delivered at the Universidad Ibero Americana, Mexico City, DF, Mexico, May 1995 Vilna Jewry Between the Wars Nathan Augenfeld Annual Yiddish Lecture, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, November, 1993 Shimon Dubnov and the History of Russian Jewry (in Yiddish) Jewish Culture Congress, New York, April, 1993 Remembering the Soviet Yiddish Writers (in Yiddish) Jewish Culture Congress, New York, August, 1991