Kristallnacht anniversary - Holocaust Commemoration (Nov. 10, 2013) - Sout Bend, IN Synagogue

from publicity article in South Bend Tribune (October 2013): Jefrey Veidlinger, a professor of history and Judaic studies at the University of Michigan, will be the featured speaker at Kurt and Tessye Simon Holocaust Remembrance Fund's annual Holocaust Commemoration on Nov. 10. The Kristallnacht Commemoration will be at 3 p.m. that day at Temple Beth-El, 305 W. Madison St., South Bend, IN. It is open to the public. Professor Veidlinger will be talking about the impact of the Holocaust in Soviet Russia and Eastern Europe. Prior to becoming the Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at Michigan, Veidlinger was the Alvin H. Rosenfeld Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Indiana University and director of the Borns Jewish Studies Program. He is the author of The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage," "Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire, and, most recently, In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine. He has received several awards for his books. He is also the co-director of the Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories, and is working on a documentary film with PBS on Jewish life in Eastern Europe. In 2006, he was named a Top Young Historian.