Jewish Women in Modern Eastern and East Central Europe

​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.Glenn Dynner BA, Brandeis University. MA, McGill University. PhD, Brandeis University. Scholar of East European Jewry, with a focus on the social history of Hasidism and the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment). Author of Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society, which received a Koret Publication Award and was a National Jewish Book Awards finalist. Received textual training in several Israeli yeshivas and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Additional interests include Polish-Jewish relations, Jewish economic history, and popular religion. Recipient of the Fulbright Award. Member (2010-11), Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University. SLC, 2004–

• Introduction: Jewish Women in Modern Eastern and East Central Europe.- Marginality without Benefits: Converting Jewish Women in Lithuanian Guberniyas.- From Anna Kluger to Sarah Schenirer: Women’s Education in Kraków and Its Discontents.- ‘To Write? What’s This Torture For?’ Bronia Baum’s Manuscripts as Testimony to the Formation of a Writer, Activist, and Journalist.- Humanitarian Encounters: Charity and Gender in Post–World War I Jewish Budapest.- Crossing the Line: Violence against Jewish Women and the New Model of Antisemitism in Poland in the 1930s.- Gender Violence: The 1917–1922 Ukrainian Pogroms and the Challenges of Modernity.- The Toiling Froy and the Speculating Yidene: Discourses of Female Productivization in the Soviet Shtetl.- ‘To Speak for Those Who Cannot’: Masha Rol’nikaite on the Holocaust and Sexual Violence in German-Occupied Soviet Territories.