Timothy Snyder, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning

“An unflinching look at the Holocaust . . . Mr. Snyder is a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present.” —New York Times

Timothy Snyder, the Bird White Housum Professor of History at Yale University, discusses his newest book Black Earth, which posits an ecological connection to the Holocaust. Snyder’s previous book, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin, a history of Nazi and Soviet mass killing on the lands between Berlin and Moscow, received a number of honors, including the Hannah Arendt Prize, the Leipzig Prize for European Understanding, and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award in the Humanities. 

His other works include Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist’s Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine (Yale Press, 2005) and The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke (Basic Books, 2008). His writings have also appeared in Politico, New Republic, New York Book Review, Washington Monthly, the Boston Globe, and the Chicago Tribune. Snyder is also a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Cosponsored with Ohio State’s Humanities Institute, Melton Center for Jewish Studies, and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.