EPISODE · Jan 19, 2026 · 1H 18M
Ep. 70- Women in the Holocaust with Elissa Bemporad
from The Holocaust History Podcast
Send us Fan MailHow did women experience the Holocaust differently from men? What do we learn from considering a gender perspective when we look at the past? How did gender play a role in survival and oppression? For a long time, women's experiences (and a gendered approach to understanding them was absent from our study of the Holocaust. In this episode, we have a far-ranging conversation looking at many of the questions listed above.Elissa Bemporad is the Ungar Chair in East European Jewish History and the Holocaust and is Professor of History at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center.Bemporad, Elissa and Joyce W. Warren, eds. Women and Genocide: Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators (2018) Bemporad, Elissa. Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets (2020)Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod.Email the podcast at [email protected] Holocaust History Podcast homepage is hereYou can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here.
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Send us Fan Mail How did women experience the Holocaust differently from men? What do we learn from considering a gender perspective when we look at the past? How did gender play a role in survival and oppression? For a long time, women's experiences (and a gendered approach to understanding them was absent from our study of the Holocaust. In this episode, we have a far-ranging conversation looking at many of the questions listed above. Elissa Bemporad is the Ungar...
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