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The Annual Abram Matlofsky Memorial Lecture, The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life

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Monday March 24, 2025
7:30 PM

Rokhl Auerbach’s Warsaw Testimony

Until recently, few people knew about Rokhl Auerbach, a journalist, literary critic, and memoirist who survived the Holocaust and then dedicated her life to preserving the memories of its victims. Join us for a discussion with renowned scholar Samuel D. Kassow (Trinity College) about Auerbach’s memoir Warsaw Testament, which paints a vivid portrait of the city’s prewar Yiddish literary and artistic community and its destruction at the hands of the Nazis. Professor Kassow’s new translation of the work received a National Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Memoir in January 2025. A dessert reception will follow the lecture. Learn more and register here.