The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center's Podcast

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Episode 399: A Memoir of the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania
Tuesday, 28 October, 2025

Ellen Cassedy and Andrew Cassel joined The Shmooze to talk about their work translating So We Died: A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania, by Levi Shalit. Few accounts of the Šiauliai, or Shavl, Ghetto survived the war. Shalit’s work offers English-language readers a rare insight into a vital chapter of history. In conversation we learn about Levi Shalit the writer and how his literary and journalist style illuminates the Shavl Ghetto’s daily struggles, false hopes, and atrocities. Episode 399 October 30, 2025 Amherst, MA