Olga Gershenson is Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies and of Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Gesher: Russian Theater in Israel; A Study of Cultural Colonization (2005)m The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe (2013), and New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre (2024). She edited a collection Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender (2009) and a special issue of East European Jewish Affairs about new Jewish museums in post-communist Europe. To learn more about her work, see her website.