Golde and Her Daughters: Soviet Jewish Women Under Stalin

Presented in Yiddish.

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What were Jewish women’s experiences under Stalin? How did they differ from their Russian, Belorussian, and Ukrainian counterparts? Elissa Bemporad (Queens College, CUNY) examines the unique features of Jewish women’s encounters with the Sovietization process, and the cultural wars surrounding Stalin’s attempt to eradicate religious culture and create the “New Soviet Jewish Woman.”

About the Speaker

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.