Ellen Cassedy

Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast

English - October 25, 2012 09:40 - 50 minutes - 23.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
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Ellen Cassedy's longing to recover the Yiddish she'd lost with her mother's death led her to Lithuania, once the "Jerusalem of the North." What began as a personal journey broadened into a larger exploration of how the people of this country, Jews and non-Jews alike, are confronting their past in order to move forward into the future.

Ellen Cassedy has spent 10 years studying the world of the Lithuanian Holocaust. Her translations and articles have appeared in Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Forward, and Hadassah.

Part of the Schapiro Lecture Series.

Recorded On: Wednesday, October 24, 2012