Izabella Tabarovsky

Senior Advisor

izabella.tabarovsky@wilsoncenter.org

Expert Bio

Izabella Tabarovsky is the Kennan Institute Senior Advisor on Regional Partnerships and Programming. She oversees the Institute’s regional partnerships and programming, it's independent journalism initiatives, and its . She manages the Kennan Institute’s , , and In Other Words blogs, and co-hosts its Russia File podcast. She has coordinated Kennan’s U.S.-Israel working group on Russia in the Middle East, Kennan’s alumni conferences, and other initiatives and events. Her research expertise includes politics of historical memory, Russia's independent media, the Holocaust, Stalin’s repressions, and Soviet and contemporary left antisemitism.

Her previous engagements include the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government; and Cambridge Energy Research Associates. She has served as an associate producer on the critically acclaimed PBS documentary “,” and worked on PBS/Frontline documentary “” and at “On Point,” an acclaimed NPR talk-show.

Izabella holds a Master of Arts degree in Russian History from Harvard University and Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Colorado in Boulder. She is a native Russian speaker with working knowledge of Hebrew, Spanish, French, and German. Her writings have been published in Newsweek, The National Interest, Tablet, Forward, Times of Israel, Fathom, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and others.

Major Publications

Holocaust / Politics of Historical Memory

“,”&�Բ��;The �ǿմ�ý Quarterly, Fall 2020
“,” Forward, January 2020
"," Forward, June 2019
"Russia's Strange Obsession with Sobibor," Russia File, May 2018
“” Tablet, January 2018
“,” The National Interest, November 2017
“,”&�Բ��;The National Interest, July 2017
“In Russia’s World War II Commemorations, the Holocaust Remains an Unexamined Narrative,”&�Բ��;Russia File, June 2017. (The Russian translation of the piece, “Забытый Холокост,” was published on Intersection.)
“,”&�Բ��;Tablet, January 2017
“,”&�Բ��;Newsweek, September 2016
“Lev Simkin: The Holocaust Began in Ukraine,” Kennan Institute, June 2016

Antisemitism

"," Tablet, November 2019.
“,” 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

“,”&�Բ��;Tablet, June 2021
“,”&�Բ��;Areo, May 2021
“”&�Բ��;Tablet, December 2020
“”&�Բ��;Tablet, October 2020
“,”&�Բ��;Tablet, June 2020
"," Jewish Telegraphic Agency, April 2019
“Americans in the USSR: Changing Hearts and Minds in the Midst of the Cold War,”&�Բ��;Russia File, July 2017
",”&�Բ��;�ǿմ�ý Quarterly, Fall 2016
",”&�Բ��;�ǿմ�ý Quarterly, Fall 2016
“,”&�Բ��;�ǿմ�ý Quarterly, Fall 2016

Stalin’s Repressions

“,”&�Բ��;Tablet, October 2020
“Forging Hope in Exile: Interview with Guzel Yakhina, Author of ‘Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes’,” Russia File, June 2019
"History Must Be Measured in Human Beings," Russia File, December 2018
“,”&�Բ��;Newsweek, February 2017
“”&�Բ��;Newsweek, December 2016
“,”&�Բ��;�ǿմ�ý Quarterly, Fall 2016

Other

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