Beth Am Welcomes Izabella Tabarovsky, eminent scholar of Russian History and antisemitism who will speak about “The Soviet Roots of Today’s Antizionist Antisemitism.”

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The Soviet underpinning of current US antisemitism needs to be understood to help reverse the dramatic increase in antisemitic sentiment in recent years. Hate crimes against Jews in the US increased by 37% in 2022 according to data released by the FBI. Recent statistics are even worse. Just since the Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023, the ADL Center on Extremism recorded a 388% rise in US antisemitic incidents (harassment, vandalism, and assault) versus the same period last year. The former Soviet anti-Zionist propaganda has become foundational to the antisemitic mindset in the US today. 

The program is free, but registration is required by Saturday, January 20, 7:00 PM. REGISTER HERE. An email with the Zoom link to the event will be sent on January 19 and again on January 20 to those who have registered. The email will come from myaniv@paloaltojcc.org.

Izabella Tabarovsky is a Senior Advisor at the Kennan Institute (Wilson Center), a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism & Policy (ISGAP) and the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (LCSCA), and a contributing writer at Tablet. Her research and writing focus on Soviet antizionism and contemporary left antisemitism, Soviet Jewry, Holocaust in the USSR, and Stalin's repressions. 

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. In addition to Tablet, Her writings have been published in Newsweek, The National Interest, Forward, Times of Israel, Fathom, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and others. 

The program is free, but registration is required by Saturday, January 20, 7:00 PM. 

Izabella Tabarovsky’s talk is co-sponsored by Beth Am’s Jewish and Israel Advocacy Committee and the Z3 Project of the Oshman Family JCC. Additional partners include Congregation Beth Jacob and Sonoma County Israel Committee.