Elis­sa Bem­po­rad is the Jer­ry and William Ungar Chair in East Euro­pean Jew­ish His­to­ry and the Holo­caust, and pro­fes­sor of his­to­ry at Queens Col­lege and The Grad­u­ate Cen­ter — CUNY. She is the author of the award-win­ning Becom­ing Sovi­et Jews: The Bol­she­vik Exper­i­ment in Min­sk (Indi­ana Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 2013, Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award, Fraenkel Prize in Con­tem­po­rary His­to­ry, and run­ner-up Jor­dan Schnitzer Prize in Mod­ern Jew­ish His­to­ry). Elis­sa is the co-edi­tor of two vol­umes: Women and Geno­cide: Sur­vivors, Vic­tims, Per­pe­tra­tors (Indi­ana Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 2018); and Pogroms: A Doc­u­men­tary His­to­ry of Anti-Jew­ish Vio­lence (forth­com­ing with Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty Press, with Gene Avrutin). She has recent­ly been a recip­i­ent of an NEH Fel­low­ship and a Fel­low­ship at the Cen­ter for Advanced Holo­caust Stud­ies at the Unit­ed States Holo­caust Memo­r­i­al Muse­um in Wash­ing­ton DC. Elis­sa’s projects in progress include research for a biog­ra­phy of Ester Frumkin, the most promi­nent Jew­ish female polit­i­cal activist and pub­lic fig­ure in late Impe­r­i­al Rus­sia and in the ear­ly Sovi­et Union; and the first vol­ume of the six-vol­ume his­to­ry enti­tled A Com­pre­hen­sive His­to­ry of the Jews in the Sovi­et Union, which will be pub­lished with NYU Press. Eliss­sa’s new book, enti­tled Lega­cy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Rit­u­al Mur­der in the Lands of the Sovi­ets, has just appeared with Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty Press.