Izabella Tabarovsky

Izabella Tabarovsky is the Kennan Institute Senior Advisor on Regional Partnerships and Programming, 


  specializing in Eastern European history. Tabarovsky runs the Kennan Institute's Russia Files and Focus Ukraine. She also leads the Kennan Institute's U.S.–Israel working group on Russia in the Middle East. Her mother tongue is Russian, while being proficient in French, German, Hebrew and Spanish.

Education

She holds a BA from the University of Colorado in Boulder and an MA in Russian History from Harvard University. 

Research areas

Tabarovsky's research areas cover:

 The Holocaust
 Independent media in Russia
 Repressions under Joseph Stalin
 Soviet and contemporary left antisemitism

Selected works

Her pieces have been published in The Forward, Newsweek, Tablet, Fathom Journal, Jewish Telegraphic Agency etc.

The Holocaust

 "Putin’s New Propaganda Campaign Turns Jews into a Prop", The Forward, January 2020
 "Most Jews Weren't Murdered in Death Camps. It's Time To Talk About The Other Holocaust", The Forward, June 2019
 "Babi Yar: The Holocaust as a Final Solution Began Here", Newsweek, September 2016.

Antisemitism

 "Senator Sanders, Fighting Anti-Semitism Requires Actions, not Just Universalist Promises", The Forward, November 2019
 "Book Review | A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism", Fathom Journal, October 2019
 "The Left Can No Longer Excuse Its Anti-Semitism", The Forward, August 2019
 "Understanding the Real Origin of that New York Times Cartoon: How anti-Semitic Soviet propaganda informs contemporary left anti-Zionism", Tablet, June 2019
 "To understand Labour antisemitism, go back to the USSR's giant anti-Zionism campaign", Jewish Chronicle, May 2019
 "Soviet Anti-Zionism and Contemporary Left Antisemitism", Fathom Journal, May 2019
 "We Soviet Jews Lived Through State-Sponsored Anti-Zionism. We Know How It Is Weaponized", The Forward, March 2019 

Cold War history

 "What My Soviet Life Has Taught Me About Censorship and Why It Makes Us Dumb", Areo, May 2021
 "The liberation fight for Soviet Jews was a miracle. Most of us didn't know about it", Jewish Telegraphic Agency, April 2019
 "Walking in Each Other’s Shoes: Through the Iron Curtain and Back", Wilson Quarterly, Fall 2016

Stalinist totalitarianism

 "How ‘The New York Times’ Helped Hide Stalin’s Mass Murders in Ukraine", Tablet, October 2020
 "Why Are Memories of Stalin’s Terror Being Buried?", Newsweek, February 2017
 "The Price of Silence: Family Memory of Stalin’s Repressions", Wilson Quarterly, Fall 2016

Related pages

 Shira Klein
 Havi Dreifuss
 Shimon Redlich
 Saul Friedländer
 Renée Poznanski

References

Category:Jewish academics
Category:Historical studies
Category:American historians