Blood and smashed silver: A review of Jeffrey Veidlinger’s ‘In the midst of civilized Europe: The pogroms of 1918-1921 and the onset of the Holocaust’

  This book is not for the faint of heart. Neither, however, is its triggering subject matter, the decentralized yet procedural murder of over one hundred thousand Jews in Ukraine between 1918 and 1921. In his 2021 historiography, Dr. Jeffrey Veidlinger from the University of Michigan puts into grim focus the series of vicious pogroms, […]