Jeffrey Veidlinger
Guest Speaker
Professional affiliation
Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies, Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan
Full Biography
Jeffrey Veidlinger is Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies and Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He is 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), and Editor of Going to the People: Jews and Ethnographic Impulse (2016). His book on the pogroms of the Russian civil war is forthcoming with Metropolitan Books.