Lisa Brahin is an accom­plished Jew­ish geneal­o­gist and researcher from New Jer­sey. A grad­u­ate of George Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­si­ty’s Columbian Col­lege, she is a two-town project coor­di­na­tor for Jewishgen.org’s Yizkor Book Project (Holo­caust Memo­r­i­al Book Project). Lisa hopes that her book, Tears Over Rus­sia: A Search for Fam­i­ly and the Lega­cy of Ukraine’s Pogroms, will inspire con­tin­ued inter­est in fam­i­ly his­to­ry research. She also hopes that it will shine a light on an under­rep­re­sent­ed peri­od of Jew­ish his­to­ry — the 1917 – 1921 pogroms in Ukraine — that pre­fig­ured the hor­ror that was to come. Lisa Brahin is a Jew­ish geneal­o­gist and a JBC author. Invite her to speak vir­tu­al­ly at your event on the JBC Authors Net­work Tour 2022 – 2023, and learn how to uncov­er the secrets of your family’s past.