AN ANCIENT ANTISEMITIC MYTH: THE BLOOD LIBEL DURING THE HOLOCAUST
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
5 p.m.
Derthick Hall 201
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Elissa Bemporad
Jerry and William Ungar Chair in East European Jewish History and the Holocaust
Professor of History
Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center
Elissa Bemporad 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), Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets (2019 Oxford UP), and Revolution, Civil War, and New Ways of Life (Forthcoming with NYU). She is the co-editor of three volumes, including Women and Genocide: Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators (2018 IUP); and Pogroms: A Documentary History (Oxford University Press, 2021). She is currently working on a biography of Ester Frumkin and on a study of everyday life in the Italian DP camps.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT DR. JOHN C. SWANSON (JOHN-SWANSON@UTC.EDU)
SPONSORED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
WITH SUPPORT FROM THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AND THE CHAIR OF EXCELLENCE IN JUDAIC STUDIES