Jeffrey Veidlinger is a professor of history and Judaic studies at the University of Michigan and the director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. His books, which include The Moscow State Yiddish Theater and In the Shadow of the Shtetl, have won a National Jewish Book Award, the Barnard Hewitt Award for Theatre Scholarship, two Canadian Jewish Book Awards, and the J. I. Segal Award. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
