About this program:

2023 Melinda Rosenblatt Lecture | In the Midst of Civilized Europe: Jews and Ukraine in Times of War

Featuring: Jeffrey Veidlinger

Jeffrey Veidlinger’s talk will look at the historical fate of Jews in Ukraine during times of war, with a focus on the pogroms of the First World War, the Holocaust, and the Russo-Ukrainian War of 2022.

 

Jeffrey Veidlinger is Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. His most recent book, In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Ukrainian Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust (2021), won a Canadian Jewish Literary Award, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, was shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Award,  and was longlisted for the Wingate Literary Prize.  It was named a top book of the year by Kirkus, the Times Literary Supplement, El Mundo, and El Espanol. He is also the author of the award-winning books The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage (2000), Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire (2009), and In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine (2013). Veidlinger is chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History, a member of the academic committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a member of the executive committee of the American Academy for Jewish Research, and a former vice-president of the Association for Jewish Studies.