Jeffrey Veidlinger

Jeffrey Veidlinger is Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies and Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Michigan. His latest book,  In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust, won a Canadian Jewish Literary Award and a Vine Book Award, and was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Wingate Literary Prize. He is also 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). He is the Editor of Going to the People: Jews and Ethnographic Impulse (2016). Professor Veidlinger is Vice President of the American Academy for Jewish Research, Past Chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History, a former Vice-President of the Association for Jewish Studies, and a member of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. His writing has appeared in Harper's Magazine, The Globe and Mail, Times Literary Supplement, Smithsonian Magazine, Tablet Magazine, and The Forward. He was Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies from 2015-2021 and Director of the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University from 2009-2013. He is currently writing about the Galveston Movement, an early twentieth-century project to redirect Jewish immigration to the American Great Plains.

Publications

In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2021.

In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine, 1919-1953. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.

Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 2009.

The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.

Affiliation(s)

• Judaic Studies
• Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies

Field(s) of Study

• Modern Jewish history, modern Russia and Eastern Europe, oral history, culture and ethnicity, Holocaust