Proposal-Writing Information Session & Workshop 2022

Information Session

Thursday, August 25, 10 am–11 am
Danforth University Center, Room 276

Proposal Workshop

Friday, August 19, 12 pm CDT: Proposal submission due date

August 25 or 26: First Review 
Final date and time to be determined by the individual groups

Week of August 29: Revisions
Final date and time to be determined by the individual groups

Follow link below for details and registration. 

Faculty Book Talk: Hillel J. Kieval

Blood Inscriptions: Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder at Europe’s Fin de Siècle, examines four cases to consider how discredited beliefs that Jews murdered Christian children for ritual purposes became plausible to educated European elites.

Join us for a discussion with Hillel J. Kieval (History). His talk will be followed by a Q&A, and refreshments will be provided.

Free and open to all, registration required.

The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust

Between 1918 and 1921, over 100,000 Jews were murdered in Ukraine by peasants, townsmen and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. In hundreds of separate incidents, ordinary people robbed their Jewish neighbors with impunity, burned down their houses, ripped apart their Torah scrolls, sexually assaulted them and killed them. Largely forgotten today, these pogroms — ethnic riots — dominated headlines and international affairs in their time. Aid workers warned that 6 million Jews were in danger of complete extermination. Twenty years later, these dire predictions would come true.

Drawing upon long-neglected archival materials, including thousands of newly discovered witness testimonies, trial records and official orders, acclaimed historian Jeffrey Veidlinger shows for the first time how this wave of genocidal violence created the conditions for the Holocaust. Through stories of survivors, perpetrators, aid workers and governmental officials, he explains how so many different groups of people came to the same conclusion: that killing Jews was an acceptable response to their various problems.

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

Supported by the Silk Foundation.

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Headline image: “Jews marching in protest of pogroms,” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.