pbFINALIST FOR THE JEWISH BOOK AWARD pIn riveting prose, Jeffrey Veidlinger's iIn the Midst of Civilized Europei repositions the pogroms as a defining moment of the twentieth century.b pbThe mass killings of Jews from 1918 to 1921 are a bridge between local pogroms and the extermination of the Holocaust. No history of that Jewish catastrophe comes close to the virtuosity of research, clarity of prose, and power of analysis of this extraordinary book. As the horror of events yields to empathetic understanding, the reader is grateful to Veidlinger for reminding us what history can do.--Timothy Snyder, author of iBloodlandsibrbbrBetween 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were murdered in Ukraine by peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. In hundreds of separate incidents, ordinary people robbed their Jewish neighbors with impunity, burned down their houses, ripped apart their Torah scrolls, sexually assaulted them, and kille