CJLA Meet the Author with Professor Jeffrey Veidlinger

The Miles Nadal JCC and the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards proudly present
A Meet the Author Event
Featuring Professor Jeffrey Veidlinger, 2022 CJLA winner
Meet scholar and author Jeffrey Veidlinger, and learn about his award-winning publication In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust (2022 CJLA Holocaust award). Jeffrey will discuss his research, writing process, and how this history may parallel and/or differ from current rising global anti-Semitism. Co-presented by the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards. Presented in partnership with The Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies. This virtual program, held in honour of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, will be recorded.
Thursday January 18
1:00-2:30pm
Virtual – held on Zoom
Admission: $10.00

Jeffrey Veidlinger is Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Jewish Studies 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 was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, the Vine Book Award, and the Wingate Literary Prize. Professor Veidlinger is also the author of the award-winning books, In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine, The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage, and Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire. Veidlinger is the chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History, a member of the Executive Committee of the American Academy for Jewish Research, a member of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and a former vice-president of the Association for Jewish Studies. His writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Harper’s Magazine, The Globe and Mail, Smithsonian Magazine, Tablet Magazine, and The Forward. His work has been supported by grants and fellowships from numerous agencies, including the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council. From 2015-2021 he served as Director of the Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, and from 1999-2013, he taught at Indiana University, where he was Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies, Professor of History, and Director of the Borns Jewish Studies Program. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. For more information, visit https://www.jeffreyveidlinger.com/

To purchase In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust, please visit:
https://www.amazon.ca/Midst-Civilized-Europe-1918-1921-Holocaust/dp/1250116252

The Israel & Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University is Canada’s first interdisciplinary research centre in Jewish Studies. It brings together a vibrant community of scholars, teachers, and advanced students to promote cutting-edge research in the field. Since its inception in 1989, CJS has pursued a mission of not only fostering Jewish Studies research within the university but also enhancing the teaching of Jewish Studies. It is also committed to engaging the broader community and helping to prepare individuals for careers of service in professions related to Jewish Studies.  CJS supports a variety of initiatives that help our students learn about the Jewish people in order to promote understanding of Jewish culture among the larger public.  Its activities include visiting professorships, guest lectures, research workshops, academic symposia, public cultural events, student scholarships and prizes, and the building of a Jewish Studies reference and research collection. It also administers York’s Graduate Diploma in Jewish Studies and the Jewish Teacher Education Program, which combines a BA with a BEd, as well as works collaboratively with York’s B.A. Program in Jewish Studies. For more information, visit https://www.yorku.ca/cjs/about-the-centre/

Notes: Now celebrating its ninth year, the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards recognizes the finest books with Jewish themes and subjects by Canadian authors in a variety of genres. The Canadian Jewish Literary Awards, including the Irving Abella Award, are judged by an independent jury, who this year have selected winners in the categories of fiction, biography/memoir, poetry, history, Jewish Thought and Culture, Yiddish, scholarship, Holocaust, and books for children and youth, as well as two special awards. This year’s award winners represent all parts of Canada and the world. They share their talents and insights in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Nova Scotia, Hamilton, Boston, Texas, Israel, and Australia. The Awards are administered through York University’s Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies. For more information, please visit www.cjlawards.ca