BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.12//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6951@columbiajewish.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270506T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270506T203000 DTSTAMP:20261015T192704Z URL:https://www.columbiajewish.org/events/did-lenin-and-stalin-hate-the-je ws-the-soviet-state-the-jewish-question-and-rethinking-antisemitism-in-the -soviet-union/ SUMMARY:Did Lenin and Stalin Hate the Jews? The Soviet State\, the Jewish Q uestion\, and Rethinking Antisemitism in the Soviet Union DESCRIPTION:\n \;\nDr. Elissa Bemporad\, Queens College\nOne defining f eature of Jewish life in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s founding wa s something found nowhere else in Europe: sweeping\, state-funded campaign s against antisemitism. Backed by the Soviet government\, these efforts so ught to dismantle the tsarist legacy of anti-Jewish violence and discrimin ation and represented an unprecedented official commitment to combating an tisemitism. Yet the Soviet struggle against antisemitism was marked by dee p inconsistencies and contradictions from the very beginning. This tension became a recurring hallmark of Soviet policy\, persisting throughout the interwar years\, continuing during World War II\, and extending into its a ftermath\, especially in the newly occupied territories of the Soviet Unio n.\nElissa Bemporad \;holds the Ungar Chair in East European Jewish Hi story and the Holocaust and is Professor of History at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She 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)\, and \;Legacy of Blood: Jews\, Pogr oms\, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets \;(2019). Elissa i s the co-editor of two volumes: \;Women and Genocide: Survivors\, Vict ims\, Perpetrators \;(2018)\; and \;Pogroms: A Documentary History  \;(Oxford University Press\, 2021). She serves as editor of \;Jew ish Social Studies. \;Elissa is currently finishing the first volume o f the \;Comprehensive History of Soviet Jewry \;(forthcoming with NYU Press)\, and is at work on a biography of Ester Frumkin.\n \;\nCLI CK HERE to register to receive Zoom link. Link will be shared a few days b efore the program.\n\nCLICK HERE to see all of the sessions in our Jewish Scholar Series. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.columbiajewish.org/wp-content/upload s/2026/10/JewishScholarSeries27_800x533.png CATEGORIES:Featured Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20270314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR