Dr. Elissa Bemporad's new book, Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (Indiana University Press, 2013), has received the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, awarded by the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide (London).
The Fraenkel Prize, sponsored by Mr Ernst Fraenkel OBE, joint President of the Library and former Chairman, is awarded for an outstanding work of twentieth-century history in one of the Wiener Library’s fields of interest, i.e.
- the history of Europe
- Jewish history
- the two world wars
- antisemitism
- comparative genocide
- political extremism
