Eliyana Adler
Professor
Judaic Studies; History; Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP)
Background
Eliyana Adler is a student and teacher of East European Jewish history, with a particular focus on Poland and the USSR. Her first book, In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia (WSUP, 2011), examined the history of education and her second book, Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union, followed the experiences of a group of Jewish refugees in the midst of the war and the Holocaust. Currently, she is working on a project about post-Holocaust Jewish memorial books.
Professor Adler enjoys sharing her love of historical methods and Eastern Europe with students.
Research Interests
- East European Jewish Studies
- Holocaust
- Memory
- Migration
- Gender
Teaching Interests
- The Holocaust
- Eastern Europe
- Historiography
- Monuments and museums
