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.Jeffrey Veidlinger He was director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies of the university (2015–2021), and is the founding director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Michigan.Letter from the Director, Raoul Wallenberg Institute
B.A. Honors in history from the McGill University (1993), Ph.D. in history from the Georgetown University (1998).Curriculum vitae
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.Meet Our Staff
He was subject to sanctions by Russia in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian war.14 March 2024 13:20 Foreign Ministry statement on personal sanctions against US citizens
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 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 2014: Canadian Jewish Book Award for In the Shadow of the Shtetl 2022: Lionel Gelber Prize, shortlisted for In the Midst of Civilized Europe References