Harold Kasimow will speak on Holocaust Remembrance Day
“Remembrances of a Child Holocaust Survivor”
Harold Kasimow, Ph.D. — George Drake Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Grinnell College — is a leading scholar on interreligious dialogue and the author of several books. He will speak
Apr 21, 2022
Harold Kasimow, Ph.D., was born in rural Poland in an area now in Lithuania. As Nazi troops began systematically killing or deporting Jews, his father managed to hide the family under a cattle barn for 19 months and 5 days until the area was liberated by the Russian army. The family eventually made its way to the U.S. when Kasimow was 11. Only recently has he begun to publicly talk and share of his early childhood.
Harold Kasimow is the George Drake Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Grinnell College. A leading scholar on interreligious dialogue, he is the author of several books, including Interfaith Activism: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Religious Diversity, and The Search Will Make You Free: A Jewish Dialogue with World Religions. His edited books include Pope Francis and Interreligious Dialogue, John Paul II and Interreligious Dialogue, and Beside Still Waters: Jews, Christians, and the Way of the Buddha.
Please join us on Thursday, April 28 at 4 p.m. for Kasimow's public talk in Joe Rosenfield ’25 Center, Room 101.
Co-sponsored by: Religious Studies; Center for Religion, Spirituality, and Social Justice; Chaverim; History; Russian;
Central European, and Eurasian Studies; and Peace and Conflict Studies.