Golde and Her Daughters: Soviet Jewish Women Under Stalin
door. / Here in the USSR without God, the
woman’s path leads everywhere." Bezbozhnik u
stanka (The Godless at the workplace), 1927.
On June 16, 2013, Elissa Bemporad spoke at YIVO about her book, Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (Indiana University Press), a case study of the Sovietization of Jews in the former Pale of Settlement.
On Monday, September 15, at 6:30pm, Bemporad will speak again at YIVO, this time about one fascinating aspect of her research: the experiences of Jewish women under Stalin, their encounters with the Sovietization process, and the cultural wars surrounding Stalin’s attempt to eradicate religious culture and create a “New Soviet Jewish Woman.”
Elissa Bemporad is the Jerry and William Ungar Assistant Professor in Eastern European Jewish History and the Holocaust at Queens College, City University of New York. Her book Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (Indiana University Press) was awarded the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, and the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History for an outstanding work of 20th century history. She is currently working on a social history of the blood libel accusation in the Soviet Union and Poland.
Read an interview with Elissa Bemporad.
Attend the program. (Note: This program will be in Yiddish.)