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eliSSA BemporAd holds the Jerry and william ungar professorship in eastern european Jewish History and the Holocaust, and is assistant professor of history at Queens college, city university of new York. Born and raised in italy, dr. Bemporad was trained in russian studies at the university of Bologna and in Jewish studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. She received a phd in history from Stanford university and has published studies on russian Jewish history in a variety of academic journals. Her work has appeared in english, italian, russian, Belorussian, French, and Hebrew. dr. Bemporad is a coeditor of Conzeniana, a series about Yiddish literature and culture that is published in italy. ...

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