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Jeffrey Veidlinger

Jeffrey Veidlinger is Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author, most recently, of In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust.

  • This 1921 photograph shows three starving Jewish refugees in Rowne, Poland, (present-day Rovno or Rivne, Ukraine). In addition to the widespread displacement, famine, disease, and economic hardship that existed in the aftermath of World War I, the Jewish populations of Eastern Europe underwent new suffering as a result of the Russian Revolution and subsequent civil war. Rowne, a commercial hub with a large Jewish population, was among the towns visited by the first team of field representatives sent to Poland by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). Such teams included social workers, physicians, and teachers. The JDC was founded by American Jews in New York City in 1914 to provide wartime relief to Jewish communities.
    This 1921 photograph shows three starving Jewish refugees in Rowne, Poland, (present-day Rovno or Rivne, Ukraine). In addition to the widespread displacement, famine, disease, and economic hardship that existed in the aftermath of World War I, the Jewish populations of Eastern Europe underwent new suffering as a result of the Russian Revolution and subsequent civil war. Rowne, a commercial hub with a large Jewish population, was among the towns visited by the first team of field representatives sent to Poland by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). Such teams included social workers, physicians, and teachers. The JDC was founded by American Jews in New York City in 1914 to provide wartime relief to Jewish communities.
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    The Killing Fields of Ukraine

    Massacres of over 100,000 Jews between 1918 and 1921 paved the way for the Nazi Holocaust-by-bullets

    byJeffrey Veidlinger
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    A Tale of Two Assassins

    When a young Yiddish poet killed a Ukrainian leader who allowed pogroms, he helped forge a lasting link between Jews and Armenians

    byJeffrey Veidlinger
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    (Steve Pepple)
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    The Philosophy Behind Zingerman’s Deli

    Co-founder took cues from Russian Anarchists in crafting business empire

    byJeffrey Veidlinger
  • Members of the public walk past a Russian military personnel carrier outside a Ukrainian military base on March 17, 2014 in Simferopol, Ukraine. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
    Members of the public walk past a Russian military personnel carrier outside a Ukrainian military base on March 17, 2014 in Simferopol, Ukraine. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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    Moscow’s Long History of Intervening in Votes Like Crimea’s

    Century-old Soviet method of legitimizing national self-determination lives on

    byJeffrey Veidlinger
  • Three young men in a wheat field at the Ḥakla’i (Farmer) settlement, Dzhankoi, Ukraine, USSR, ca. 1920s.(YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York)
    Three young men in a wheat field at the Ḥakla’i (Farmer) settlement, Dzhankoi, Ukraine, USSR, ca. 1920s.(YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York)
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    Before Crimea Was an Ethnic Russian Stronghold, It Was a Potential Jewish Homeland

    Jews have lived in the area since ancient times, and leaders from Catherine the Great to Stalin encouraged their settlement there

    byJeffrey Veidlinger
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