BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//6.4.7.3//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2131@wjcenter.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240505T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240505T101500 DTSTAMP:20240411T151257Z URL:https://www.wjcenter.org/events/yom-hashoah-commemoration-memorial-ser vice-and-conversation-brunch-with-jeffrey-veidlinger/ SUMMARY:Yom HaShoah Commemoration: Memorial Service and Conversation/Brunch with Jeffrey Veidlinger DESCRIPTION: Yom HaShoah Commemoration: Memorial Service\nConversation/Brun ch (11:00 am) with Jeffrey Veidlinger\, historian and author of In the Mid st of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-21 and the Onset of the Holoca ust\n\nJoin us for a compelling conversation with acclaimed author and his torian Jeffrey Veidlinger who will shed a new light on the origins of the Holocaust and on antisemitism past and present. His talk will address the widespread pogroms that broke out in Ukraine over a century ago in the aft ermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution. Learn about this often o verlooked history of mass killings by local populations that set the stage for the destruction of European Jewry two decades later.\n\nBooks will be available for purchase and signing by the author. Jeffrey Veidlinger is J oseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the Un iversity of Michigan. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.wjcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024 /04/WJC-CountyWideYomHashoah-2024.png CATEGORIES:Featured Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR