The Melbourne Holocaust Museum and ACJC invite you to a panel discussion about the Pogroms of 1918-1921 in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust.
Between 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were murdered in Ukraine by peasants, townsmen and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Largely forgotten today, these pogroms served as precursors to the Holocaust. Through stories of survivors, perpetrators, aid workers and governmental officials, Professor Veidlinger explains how so many different groups came to the same conclusion – killing Jews was an acceptable response to their problems.
Image | Jewish men survey damage done to Torah scrolls during pogroms in Russia, Getty Images
Jeffrey Veidlinger is Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. His most recent book, In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Ukrainian Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust (2021) won a Canadian Jewish Literary Award and the Stan Vine Book Award and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, the Lionel Gelber Award, and the Wingate Literary Prize. It was named a top book of the year by Kirkus, the Times Literary Supplement, Mosaic Magazine, El Mundo, and El Espanol. He is also 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). Veidlinger is Chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History, a member of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and a member of the Executive Committee of the American Academy for Jewish Research.
