Elissa Bemporad (Bonus)

Elissa Bemporad is the Jerry and William Ungar
Associate Professor of East European Jewish History and the
Holocaust at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She
is the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment
in Minsk (Indiana University Press, 2013), winner of the
National Jewish Book Award and of the Fraenkel Prize in
Contemporary History. The Russian edition was recently
published with ROSSPEN, in the History of Stalinism Series. She
is currently finishing a book entitled Legacy of Blood: Jews,
Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets, which
will be published with Oxford University Press. Elissa is the
co-editor of Women and Genocide: Survivors and Perpetrators
(forthcoming with Indiana University Press in 2018), a
collection of studies on the multifaceted roles played by women
in different genocidal contexts during the twentieth century.
She has recently been a recipient of an NEH Fellowship and a
Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. In
Spring 2018, Elissa will be a Distinguished CUNY Fellow at the
Advanced Research Collaborative at the Graduate Center.


Sholem Beinfeld led these interviews with
Professors Samuel Kassow and Elissa Bemporad, who, along with
numerous other academic experts, will soon take part in the
YIVO's conference JEWS IN AND AFTER THE 1917 RUSSIAN
REVOLUTION, Sun/Mon Nov 5-6. See: https://yivo.org/1917


Bonus podcast: some of the interviews could
not be included in the broadcast due to time limitations. This
is a bonus podcast with material that could not be included in
the original broadcast on Novermber 1, 2017.