Professor Samuel Kassow, Charles H. Northam Professor of History, has won a National Jewish Book Award for Warsaw Testament, in the Holocaust Memoir category. Warsaw Testament is the first translation of Rokhl Auerbach’s writings from Yiddish, and is published by White Goat Press with a critical introduction by Kassow. Auerbach was a member of Warsaw’s thriving Yiddish arts scene during the Second World War, and her writings are a unique testament to the vitality of the Warsaw ghetto. “Kassow’s translation retains the punchiness of Auerbach’s prose,” Leah Grisholm writes for the Jewish Book Council, and his book ensures that Auerbach finally gets “her due as a wartime writer and activist, for preserving the personal narratives of the Jews who lived and died during the Holocaust.” As well as receiving this prestigious award, Warsaw Testament has been reviewed widely, including in the New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Wall Street Journal.
Congratulations, Professor Kassow!
