West Coast Book Launch: A Conversation with Izabella Tabarovsky

Join us for the West Coast launch of Be a Refusenik: A Jewish Student's Survival Guide with Izabella Tabarovsky, Z3 Senior Fellow.

With decades of research into Soviet antizionism, contemporary left antisemitism, Soviet Jewry and Stalin's repressions, Tabarovsky offers more than analysis. She offers practical strategies—grounded in history, clarity and moral confidence—to equip a new generation of Jews to stand firm without surrendering nuance, dignity or peoplehood.

Come hear from a leading scholar and writer and reflect together on what it means, in our time, to refuse erasure and to lead our people into a vibrant Jewish future.

Copies of Be a Refusenik will be available for purchase at the event. You may also pre-purchase a book with your ticket, to be distributed at the event.

About our speaker:

Izabella Tabarovsky examines how Soviet propaganda shaped the ideological language of contemporary antizionism, how its legacy continues to shape discourse about Israel and Jews today and how Soviet Jewish models of courage and defiance can inform responses to antisemitism on campus and beyond. She is the author of Be a Refusenik: A Jewish Student’s Survival Guide and a sought-after international speaker. She has lectured at universities, policy forums and national institutions in the United States and abroad, including Georgetown University, the London School of Economics, and Yad Vashem; delivered a keynote at the Parliament of Finland; and testified before the U.S. Helsinki Commission. She is a Senior Fellow at the Z3 Institute (Palo Alto) and a Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington, DC), the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Comper Center for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism, University of Haifa.