Jeffrey Veidlinger (University of Michigan), "In the Shadow of the Shtetl: The Postwar Return of Jews to Small-Town Ukraine."
Department: Jewish Studies
Date and Time: February 2, 2015 | 5:00 PM-6:30 PMEvent Location: Humanities Gateway 1010
Event Details
Jeffrey Veidlinger (University of Michigan)
In the Shadow of the Shtetl: The Postwar Return of Jews to Small-Town Ukraine
Monday, February 2, 2015 at 5pm
Humanities Gateway 1010
Based on videotaped oral histories conducted with Jews living in small-towns throughout Ukraine, this multimedia presentation discusses how Holocaust survivors in Ukraine adapted to life in the postwar Soviet Union.
Jeffrey Veidlinger is Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Professor Veidlinger is the author, most recently, of In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine, which won the Canadian Jewish Book Award for History. His previous books include The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage, which won a National Jewish Book Award and the Barnard Hewitt Award for Theater Scholarship, and Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire, which won the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Scholarship and the J. I . Segal Prize. His work has been supported by grants and fellowships from numerous agencies, including the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council. Veidlinger is a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Center for Jewish History, the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, and the Board of Directors of the Association for Jewish Studies. He is currently conducting research on pogroms and anti-Jewish violence in Ukraine.