Ekaterina Oleshkevich is a Knapp Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon Center for the Study of Antisemitism. She completed her Ph.D. at Bar-Ilan University in 2024 with a dissertation, "History, Culture, and the Experience of Jewish Childhood in Late Imperial Russia." Her research adopts a broad comparative approach, examining Jewish childhood alongside other ethno-religious groups in the Russian Empire to grasp the specifics of childhood and its experience among Jews and the variations within different social and cultural subsets of Jewish society. Her work also enriches childhood studies as a discipline by introducing a novel method of analyzing autobiographies, allowing for the voices and lived experiences of children to be accessed through texts written decades later. Oleshkevich’s recent publications include: “Who Nursed the Jewish Babies? Wet-Nursing Among Jews in the Late Russian Empire” (Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 36, 2024), “Tombstones, Stonemasons, and Mental Maps: Jewish Graveyard Networks in Croatia and Beyond” (co-authored with Vladimir Levin, European Journal of Jewish Studies 2024), and “Images of Parenthood in the Traditional and Modernized Jewish Family in the Russian Empire” (PaRDeS 26, 2020). In her current research project, “Controlling Lower-Class Women and Fomenting Antisemitism: Public Discourses on Baby Farming in the Late Russian Empire,” she investigates the practice and discourse surrounding baby farming—a lower-class infant care practice akin to contemporary crèches but associated with high infant mortality rates. This practice was often perceived by the upper and educated classes as intentional neglect or murder. She explores the perspectives of both the lower classes and the elite on baby farming and traces the development of Russian, Polish, and Jewish discourses on the topic. Furthermore, she examines the antisemitic elements that sometimes accompanied these discourses, contrasting them with the practice of interethnic communication among the lower classes.