Leonid Smilovitsky is Fellow of the Yoran-Sznycer Research Foundation in Jewish History and Researcher at the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is author of numerous books on the history of Belarus Jewry, including Jews in Belarus: From Our Common History, 1905–1953 (1999), Holocaust in Belarus, 1941–1944 (2000), and Jewish National and Religious Life in Belarus, 1944–1953 (forthcoming).
