Elissa Bemporad

Elissa Bemporad, is Professor of History and Ungar Chair in East European Jewish History and the Holocaust at Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center. She is a two-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award. She is the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (2013 IUP), and Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets (2019 OxfordUP). Elissa is the co-editor of two volumes: Women and Genocide: Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators (2018 IUP); and Pogroms: A Documentary History (Oxford University Press, 2021). She is completing the first volume of the Comprehensive History of Soviet Jews (forthcoming with New York University Press and entitled Revolution, War, and a New Way of Life). Elissa is currently at work on two projects: a biography of Ester Frumkin, and the first comprehensive study of the DP Camps in Italy. Her work has appeared in different languages, including French, Hebrew, Yiddish, Italian, and Russian. She is editor of Jewish Social Studies, and Series Editor of Yiddish Voices for Bloomsbury Press.