Research Colloquium | Jeffrey Veidlinger (Ann Arbor) American Zion: The Global Plan to Settle Jews in the American West
When? Thursday, 25 June | 14:15-15:45
Where? Room 017, Altes Finanzamt / IOS, Landshuter Str. 4
This event is part of the joint research colloquium of the ScienceCampus and Graduate School. All are welcome. No registration is required.
Abstract | This talk explores the Galveston Movement, a plan initiated in 1907 to redirect Jewish migration from Russia away from New York and the Northeast through the port of Galveston, Texas in an attempt to settle Jews in the Great Plains of the United States. The story sheds important light on issues related to Zionism, migration, and race in the United States and around the Jewish world.
Bio |Jeffrey Veidlinger is Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies and Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Michigan. He will be a visiting fellow at the Leibniz ScienceCampus for the final two weeks of June 2026.