Jeffrey Veidlinger is the Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan and the author most recently of In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust.
Jeffrey Veidlinger
By Jeffrey Veidlinger
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Opinion Babyn Yar is a site of Jewish death. Its memorial is a testament to a democratic Ukraine
“My sister, brothers, mother and father are all buried in Babi Yar,” Fania Khasidovich told me when I visited her in 2008 in Fastiv, a city of 40,000 people about 50 miles southwest of Kyiv. It was only a few days before her 92nd birthday. “I was with them,” she continued, “I lived through it,…
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Culture Off 2nd Avenue
Messiahs of 1933: How American Yiddish Theatre Survived Adversity Through Satire By Joel Schechter Temple University Press, 304 pages, $39.95. In Moishe Nadir’s 1928 Yiddish play, “Messiah in America,” theater producer Menachem Yosef and his assistant, Jack “the Bluffer,” concoct a scheme to present the messiah onstage, dressing up a bearded Jewish immigrant to play…
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