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L.I.F.E Lecture - In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Yiddish Memories of Small-Town Jewish Life in Ukraine with Jeffrey Veidlinger

Sunday, December 8, 2024 • 7 Kislev 5785

7:30 PM - 9:00 PMZoom Event

The Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories project conducted some 400 Yiddish-language interviews with elderly Jews in Ukraine. Drawing from these memories, Professor Jeffrey Veidlinger describes Jewish life in the Soviet shtetl, survival during the Holocaust, and experiences living as Jews under Communism. Despite Stalinist repressions, the Holocaust and official antisemitism, these Ukrainian Jews preserved their Jewish customs. These interviews are infused with memories of family life, religious observance, education and work. They testify to the survival of Jewish lives in Ukraine.

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 most recent book won a Canadian Jewish Literary Award and the Stan Vine Book Award. Veidlinger is Vice President of the American Academy for Jewish Research, Past Chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History, and a member of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Co-sponsored by The Haberman Institute.


This program is made possible by the generosity of the Edith Black Endowment for Yiddish and Jewish Culture.

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