In the Midst of Civilized Europe

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.

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A riveting account of a forgotten holocaust: the slaughter of over one hundred thousand Ukrainian Jews in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.

Introduction: "Will a Slaughter of Jews Be Next European Horror?"
A Note on Sources, Numbers, Dates, and Place-Names

Part I: War and Revolution, March 1881-December 1918
1. The Last Years of the Russian Empire
2. The Revolutions of 1917
3. The Central Rada of Ukraine
4. From the Hetmanate to the Directory

Part II: The Ukrainian People's Republic, December 1918-March 1919
5. The Ovruch Pogro
6. The Zhytomyr Pogrom
7. The Proskuriv Pogrom
8. The Second Zhytomyr Pogrom

Part III: Power Vacuum, March 1919-August 1919
9. The Entente
10. Warlords
11. Months and Days
12. Poland and Ukraine on the World Stage

Part IV: The Triumph of Bolshevism, August 1919-March 1921
13. The Volunteer Army
14. The Tetiiv Pogrom
15. The Polish-Soviet War

Part V: Aftermath, 1921-1941
16. Refugees
17. The Schwarzbard Trial
18. The Interwar in Ukraine
19. The Onset of the Holocaust

Notes
Acknowledgments
Index