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Samuel D. Kassow and Pnina Lahav: Golda Meir (1898-1978)
*Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University; the Great Russian Jews That Shaped the World Panel Series and the Seminar on Russian and Eurasian Jewry, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Samuel D. Kassow, Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College
Samuel D. Kassow was born to Holocaust survivors in a displaced camp in Germany. In 2006-2012 he was a lead historian for two of the galleries of Polin, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. He has received the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright, Woodrow Wilson and Danforth Fellowships and has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research. Kassow’s many publications include Students Professors and the State in Tsarist Russia: 1884-1917 (1989), The Distinctive Life of East European Jewry (2003) andWho Will Write Our History: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Secret Ghetto Archive (2007), which has been translated into eight languages and made into a documentary film.
Pnina Lahav, Professor of Law and a member of the faculty of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University
Pnina Lahav is an Israeli-born scholar and author. Her fields of expertise are constitutional law, first amendment law and legal history. She is the recipient of many awards, prizes and distinguished fellowships, most recently, the Israel Studies Award for Lifetime Achievement (2017) and the Boston University School of Law Silver Shingle Award (2018.) She is the author of numerous publications, including the acclaimed judicial biography Justice in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century. Of late Professor Lahav has focused her attention on the status and history of women and is presently completing the biography of Golda Meir, Israel’s fourth prime minister, through the gender lens.
Moderator: Maxim D. Shrayer, Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies, Boston College; Director, Project on Russian and Eurasian Jewry; Center Associate, Davis Center
*This event is free and open to the public.