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Duration of Stay: 15-27 June 2026 | Visiting Fellow based at the Graduate School, Landshuter Str. 4
 

Particpating in the 2026 LSC annual conference: Autoemancipation and Self-Determination: Jewish Autonomy and National Sovereignty in the Twilight of Empire, 1903-1919 - Panel 4 | 18 June 15:30-16:30 | Contested Self-Determination in the Twilight of Empire

Lecture in the GS-LSC Research Colloquium: American Zion: The Global Plan to Settle Jews in the American West - 25 June, 14:15, Room 017 at IOS

Jeffrey Veidlinger is Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies and Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Michigan. His latest book,  In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust, won a Canadian Jewish Literary Award and a Vine Book Award, and was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Wingate Literary Prize. He is also 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). He is the Editor of Going to the People: Jews and Ethnographic Impulse (2016). Professor Veidlinger is Vice President of the American Academy for Jewish Research, Past Chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History, a former Vice-President of the Association for Jewish Studies, and a former member of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. His writing has appeared in Harper's Magazine, The Globe and Mail, Times Literary Supplement, Smithsonian Magazine, Tablet Magazine, The Jerusalem Report and The Forward. He was Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies from 2015-2021 and Director of the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University from 2009-2013. He is currently writing about the Galveston Movement, an early twentieth-century project to redirect Jewish immigration to the American Great Plains.