On Thursday, April 23 at 12 p.m., Elissa Bemporad, Ph.D., the Jerry and William Ungar Chair in East European Jewish History and the Holocaust and an Associate Professor of History at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center of the City University of New York, will speak about her new book, Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets, published by Oxford University Press in December 2019. Her talk will be conducted virtually as a WebEx event under the auspices of The Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. To Register, please click: https://ramapo.webex.com/ramapo/onstage/g.php?MTID=e30d6ba4962b1be61c57dc537f97e9416

This book traces the legacies of the two most extreme manifestations of tsarist antisemitic pogroms and blood libels-in the Soviet Union, from 1917 to the early 1960s. Closely intertwined in history and memory, pogroms and blood libels were and are considered central to the Jewish experience in late Tsarist Russia–the only country on earth with large scale anti–Jewish violence in the early twentieth century. But their persistence and memory under the Bolsheviks-a chapter that is largely overlooked by the existing scholarship-significantly shaped the Soviet Jewish experience.