Monday, February 17, 2014
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6:30pm to 8:00pm
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Yiddishkeit Lecture
(Conferences / Seminars / Lectures)
"The Most Jewish City in the Soviet Union: Minsk Before the Holocaust"
Presented by Elissa Bemporad, Queens College, CUNY.
The Jerry and William Ungar Assistant Professor in East European Jewish History at Queens College CUNY, Elissa Bemporad will speak about Minsk, based on her research on the Bolshevik experiment of the Sovietization of Jews in the interwar period. Dr. Bemporad recently won the National Jewish Book Award for her book "Becoming Soviet Jews."
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