Izabella Tabarovsky

Fellow, �˻�ֱ��

izabella.tabarovsky@wilsoncenter.org

Expert Bio

Izabella Tabarovsky is a Fellow at the �˻�ֱ�� 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 �˻�ֱ�� 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 �˻�ֱ�� Center.

Major Publications

Holocaust / Politics of Historical Memory

“,”&�Բ��;The �˻�ֱ�� Quarterly, Fall 2020
“,” Forward, January 2020
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"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

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“,” Forward, November 2019
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"" 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��;�˻�ֱ�� Quarterly, Fall 2016
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“,”&�Բ��;�˻�ֱ�� 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��;�˻�ֱ�� 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