Jeffrey Veidlinger

Jeffrey Veidlinger is Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, United States. His interests include history of East European and Russian Jewry.[1] He was director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies of the university (2015–2021),[1] and is the founding director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Michigan.[2]

B.A. Honors in history from the McGill University (1993), Ph.D. in history from the Georgetown University (1998).[3]

Professor Veidlinger's other positions include Vice-President of American Academy for Jewish Research, former 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.[4]

He was subject to sanctions by Russia in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian war.[5]

Books

  • 2000, 2006: The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage
  • 2009: Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire
  • 2013: Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine
  • 2016:Going to the People: Jews and the Ethnographic Impulse
  • 2021: In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust

Awards

  • 2001: Barnard Hewitt Award for Theatre Scholarship for The Moscow State Yiddish Theater[1]
  • 2010: Abe and Fay Bergel Award in Scholarship at the Canadian Jewish Book Awards and J. I . Segal Award for Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire[1]
  • 2014: Canadian Jewish Book Award for In the Shadow of the Shtetl
  • 2022: Lionel Gelber Prize, shortlisted for In the Midst of Civilized Europe[6][7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Jeffrey Veidlinger
  2. ↑ Letter from the Director, Raoul Wallenberg Institute
  3. ↑ Curriculum vitae
  4. ↑ Meet Our Staff
  5. ↑ 14 March 2024 13:20 Foreign Ministry statement on personal sanctions against US citizens
  6. ↑ "Awards: Lionel Gelber, Lukas Shortlists". Shelf Awareness . 2022-02-24. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  7. ↑ Drudi, Cassandra (2022-02-10). "2022 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlist announced". Quill & Quire. Archived from the original on June 21, 2023. Retrieved 2025-03-16.


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