Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies, Executive Committee Member
jveidlin@umich.edu
Faculty;
Jewish History;
Jews in Modern Europe;
Jewish Culture and the Arts;
Jewish Languages;
Judaic Studies
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., Georgetown University
B.A., McGill University
About
Jeffrey Veidlinger is the Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of the award-winning books In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust (2021), 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 Chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History, a member of the Executive Committee of the American Academy for Jewish Research, a former Vice-President of the Association for Jewish Studies, and a member of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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.
Research Areas(s)
- Modern Jewish History, East European Jewish History, Holocaust
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