In the Midst of Civilized Europe - The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust

Zusatztext In this deeply learned but highly readable book, Veidlinger demonstrates how the all-but-forgotten pogroms in the collapsing Russian Empire in 1918–21 set precedents for the horrors that were to follow just two decades later. Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Veidlinger is the Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, where he also serves as the Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies. The author of three award-winning books – The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage , Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire , and In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine – he is widely recognized as the leading scholar of the Holocaust and Jewish Studies. He is the Vice-President of the Association for Jewish Studies and the Associate Chair of the Academic Advisory Committee to the Center for Jewish History and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Klappentext In the Midst of Civilized Europe is an extensively researched account of a forgotten history. Vorwort A riveting account of a forgotten holocaust: the slaughter of over one hundred thousand Ukrainian Jews in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. Zusammenfassung In the Midst of Civilized Europe is an extensively researched account of a forgotten history.

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Veidlinger's book ranks alongside Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands in forcing our eyes eastwards. It is deeply researched and masterfully written, with a cool restraint that only intensifies its power. It reminded me of Faulkner's line that "the past is never dead. It's not even past." Patrick Bishop Sunday Telegraph

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Veidlinger, Veidlinger Jeffrey
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.10.2021
• EAN: 9781509867462
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-6746-2
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 233 mm x 39 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; Russia, Holocaust, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, c 1910 to c 1919, Jewish, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Modern / 20th Century, Civil wars, Military / General