Description: A vivid firsthand account of the erasure of the Jewish community in the Ukrainian shtetl of Dubova during the pogroms of 1919.
Brief description: Elissa Bemporad is Professor of History and Chair in East European Jewish History and the Holocaust at Queens College and the Graduate Center - CUNY. She is a three-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Bemporad is the author of three monographs, including Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets (Oxford University Press, 2019) and Revolution, Civil War, and New Ways of Life (NYU Press, 2025). She is the co-editor of several volumes, including, most recently, Pogroms: A Documentary History (Oxford University Press, 2021). Her work has appeared in different languages, including French, Hebrew, Yiddish, Italian, and Russian.
Review Quotes: "Haunting and horrifying. Faygnberg meticulously documented the genocidal pogroms of the Russian Civil War at a human level through the story of a single town, Dubova, and the complete destruction of its Jews and their community. A century later, English readers can read her important account for the first time. The editor and translators have helped to recover the traumatic memory of the single worst episode of anti-Jewish violence in modern history before the Holocaust." --Polly Zavadivker, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, University of Delaware, USA