Genesis of a genocide
IN THE MIDST OF CIVILIZED EUROPE: The pogroms of 1918-1921 and the onset of the Holocaust, by Jeffrey Veidlinger (Picador, $39.99)
Jeffrey Veidlinger, a professor of history and Judaic studies at the University of Michigan, outlines his chief objective at the opening of his new book, In the Midst of Civilized Europe.
The Holocaust is often portrayed as a cataclysm that came suddenly, out
