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Expert Bio

Izabella Tabarovsky is a Fellow at the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Center. Her work focuses on antisemitism as a global political challenge.

She is a scholar of Soviet antizionism and contemporary antisemitism, a writer, and a sought-after international speaker and lecturer. 

A contributing writer at Tablet Magazine, she has also published in Newsweek, Sapir, Quillette, The ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Quarterly, The National Interest, Fathom, The Forward, and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Her essays have appeared in several edited volumes, including October 7: The Wars over Words and Deeds (Academic Studies Press); The Rebirth of Antisemitism in the 21st Century: From the Academic Boycott Campaign into the Mainstream (Routledge); Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays (Routledge); Sionismo y antisionismo: Un debate necesario (RiL editores); and Jewish Priorities: Sixty-Five Proposals for the Future of Our People (Wicked Son). She is the author of Be a Refusenik: A Jewish Student’s Survival Guide (forthcoming, Wicked Son).Her work has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Polish, Russian, Czech, and other languages.

She previously served as a senior associate of the Kennan Institute at the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Center. 

Major Publications

Holocaust / Politics of Historical Memory

• “,â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;The ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Quarterly, Fall 2020 
• “,â€� Forward, January 2020
• "," Forward, June 2019
• "Russia's Strange Obsession with Sobibor," Russia File, May 2018
• “â€� Tablet, January 2018
• “,â€� The National Interest, November 2017
• “,â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;The National Interest, July 2017
• “In Russia’s World War II Commemorations, the Holocaust Remains an Unexamined Narrative,â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Russia File, June 2017. (The Russian translation of the piece, “Забытый ХолокоÑ�Ñ‚,â€� was published on Intersection.) 
• “,â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Tablet, January 2017
• “,â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Newsweek, September 2016
• “Lev Simkin: The Holocaust Began in Ukraine,â€� Kennan Institute, June 2016

Antisemitism

• "," Tablet, November 2019.
• “,â€� Forward, November 2019
• "," Fathom Journal, October 2019
• "," Forward, August 2019
• "," Tablet, June 2019
• "," Jewish Chronicle, May 2019
• "," Fathom, May 2019
• "" The Forward, March 2019

Cold War History / Soviet Jewry

• “,â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Tablet, June 2021 
• “,â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Areo, May 2021 
• “â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Tablet, December 2020 
• “â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Tablet, October 2020 
• “,â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Tablet, June 2020 
• "," Jewish Telegraphic Agency, April 2019
• “Americans in the USSR: Changing Hearts and Minds in the Midst of the Cold War,â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Russia File, July 2017
• ",â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Quarterly, Fall 2016
• ",â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Quarterly, Fall 2016
• “,â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Quarterly, Fall 2016

Stalin’s Repressions

• “,â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Tablet, October 2020
• “Forging Hope in Exile: Interview with Guzel Yakhina, Author of ‘Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes’,â€� Russia File, June 2019
• "History Must Be Measured in Human Beings," Russia File, December 2018
• “,â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Newsweek, February 2017
• “â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Newsweek, December 2016
• “,â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Quarterly, Fall 2016

Other

• "Russian-Speaking Israelis Go to the Polls," Russia File, April 2019
• &²Ô²ú²õ±è;“What Ukraine Can Learn from Other Countries’ Experience with PTSD,â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Kennan Cable, January 2016
• “In Kyiv, the Front is a Phone Call Away,â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Kennan Cable, November 2014
• “,â€�&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Science & Diplomacy, June 2013, co-authored with Matthew Rojansky
• “,â€� Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, May 2013