Violence Between Pogroms and the Holocaust: Hans Heilbronner Lecture

Elissa Bemporad will deliver the Hans Heilbronner Lecture, "Violence Between Pogroms and the Holocaust: Jewish Women as Victims, Chroniclers and Survivors" in Theatre 2 of the Memorial Union Building at UNH. This talk will highlight women's experiences of continuities between the Holocaust and the wave of anti-Jewish violence that occurred in the same territories of Eastern Europe some twenty years earlier, termed pogroms. Few have explored different roles that Jewish women came to play in the midst of these pogroms and the direct relationship between the Holocaust and the genocidal violence against the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe unleashed during the pogroms of the Russian Civil War, 1918-1921. Bemporad is professor of history and Ungar Chair in East European Jewish History and the Holocaust at Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center. A a two-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award, she is the author of "Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk" and "Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets." Per current University COVID policy, masks are required to be worn in all indoor spaces. If the policy changes, we will note it on the lecture website: https://bit.ly/heilbronner-2022. FREE and open to the public.

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