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Book One Hundred Years in Galicia

Download or read book One Hundred Years in Galicia written by Dennis Ougrin and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ukrainian Galicia was home to Poles, Jews and Ukrainians for hundreds of years. It was witness to both World Wars, starvation, mass killings and independence movements. Family members of the authors include survivors of German concentration camps and the GULAG prisons. They fought in Austrian, Polish, Russian and German armies, as well as in the Ukrainian pro-independence army. They were arrested by the Gestapo and the NKVD, tortured and even declared dead. They survived against the most unlikely odds. Their stories, shadows and secrets permeate this book and provide a rich background to some of the most dramatic events humanity has witnessed.

Book Erased

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  • Author : Omer Bartov
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2015-02-22
  • ISBN : 1400866898
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Erased written by Omer Bartov and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace. What begins as a deeply personal chronicle of the Holocaust in his mother's hometown of Buchach--in former Eastern Galicia--carries him on a journey across the region and back through history. This poignant travelogue reveals the complete erasure of the Jews and their removal from public memory, a blatant act of forgetting done in the service of a fiercely aggressive Ukrainian nationalism. Bartov, a leading Holocaust scholar, discovers that to make sense of the heartbreaking events of the war, he must first grapple with the complex interethnic relationships and conflicts that have existed there for centuries. Visiting twenty Ukrainian towns, he recreates the histories of the vibrant Jewish and Polish communities who once lived there-and describes what is left today following their brutal and complete destruction. Bartov encounters Jewish cemeteries turned into marketplaces, synagogues made into garbage dumps, and unmarked burial pits from the mass killings. He bears witness to the hastily erected monuments following Ukraine's independence in 1991, memorials that glorify leaders who collaborated with the Nazis in the murder of Jews. He finds that the newly independent Ukraine-with its ethnically cleansed and deeply anti-Semitic population--has recreated its past by suppressing all memory of its victims. Illustrated with dozens of hauntingly beautiful photographs from Bartov's travels, Erased forces us to recognize the shocking intimacy of genocide.

Book Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism

Download or read book Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism written by Paul Robert Magocsi and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a solid background for understanding nineteenth-century Galicia as the historic Piedmont of the Ukrainian national revival.

Book The Idea of Galicia

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  • Author : Larry Wolff
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2012-01-09
  • ISBN : 9780804774291
  • Pages : 504 pages

Download or read book The Idea of Galicia written by Larry Wolff and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galicia was created at the first partition of Poland in 1772 and disappeared in 1918. Yet, in slightly over a century, the idea of Galicia came to have meaning for both the peoples who lived there and the Habsburg government that ruled it. Indeed, its memory continues to exercise a powerful fascination for those who live in its former territories and for the descendants of those who emigrated out of Galicia. The idea of Galicia was largely produced by the cultures of two cities, Lviv and Cracow. Making use of travelers' accounts, newspaper reports, and literary works, Wolff engages such figures as Emperor Joseph II, Metternich, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Ivan Franko, Stanisław Wyspiański, Tadeusz "Boy" Żeleński, Isaac Babel, Martin Buber, and Bruno Schulz. He shows the exceptional importance of provincial space as a site for the evolution of cultural meanings and identities, and analyzes the province as the framework for non-national and multi-national understandings of empire in European history.

Book Galicia Halychyna  a Part of Ukraine   from Separation to Unity

Download or read book Galicia Halychyna a Part of Ukraine from Separation to Unity written by Michael Yaremko and published by Toronto ; New York [etc.] : Shevchenko Scientific Society. This book was released on 1967 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Austrian Poland

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  • Author : Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 94 pages

Download or read book Austrian Poland written by Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism

Download or read book The Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism written by Paul R. Magocsi and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a solid background for understanding nineteenth-century Galicia as the historic Piedmont of the Ukrainian national revival.

Book Galician Villagers and the Ukrainian National Movement in the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book Galician Villagers and the Ukrainian National Movement in the Nineteenth Century written by John-Paul Himka and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spring of a Nation

Download or read book The Spring of a Nation written by Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Galicia

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  • Author : C. M. Hann
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 080203781X
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Galicia written by C. M. Hann and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume examine Galicia beyond the traditional paradigm of national history, in an effort to better understand the region as a place where different ethnic communities - Poles, Ukrainians, Jews, Austro-Germans - lived in peaceful co-existence.

Book The Russian Plot to Seize Galicia  Austrian Ruthenia

Download or read book The Russian Plot to Seize Galicia Austrian Ruthenia written by Vladimir Stepankowsky and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ethnic Cleansing of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia  1942 1946

Download or read book Ethnic Cleansing of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia 1942 1946 written by Mikolaj Terles and published by Alliance of the Polish Eastern Provinces, Toronto Branch. This book was released on 1993 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Galicia

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  • Author : Paul R. Magocsi
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 1983-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802024824
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Galicia written by Paul R. Magocsi and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive bibliographic guide to Galicia history.

Book The Shoah in Ukraine

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  • Author : Ray Brandon
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2008-05-28
  • ISBN : 0253001595
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book The Shoah in Ukraine written by Ray Brandon and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-28 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of the Nazi invasion of the USSR in 1941, Ukraine was home to the largest Jewish community in Europe. Between 1941 and 1944, some 1.4 million Jews were killed there, and one of the most important centers of Jewish life was destroyed. Yet, little is known about this chapter of Holocaust history. Drawing on archival sources from the former Soviet Union and bringing together researchers from Ukraine, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and the United States, The Shoah in Ukraine sheds light on the critical themes of perpetration, collaboration, Jewish-Ukrainian relations, testimony, rescue, and Holocaust remembrance in Ukraine. Contributors are Andrej Angrick, Omer Bartov, Karel C. Berkhoff, Ray Brandon, Martin Dean, Dennis Deletant, Frank Golczewski, Alexander Kruglov, Wendy Lower, Dieter Pohl, and Timothy Snyder.

Book The Plunder

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  • Author : Daniel Unowsky
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2018-07-17
  • ISBN : 1503606104
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book The Plunder written by Daniel Unowsky and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1898, thousands of peasants and townspeople in western Galicia rioted against their Jewish neighbors. Attacks took place in more than 400 communities in this northeastern province of the Habsburg Monarchy, in present-day Poland and Ukraine. Jewish-owned homes and businesses were ransacked and looted, and Jews were assaulted, threatened, and humiliated, though not killed. Emperor Franz Joseph signed off on a state of emergency in thirty-three counties and declared martial law in two. Over five thousand individuals—peasants, day-laborers, city council members, teachers, shopkeepers—were charged with myriad offenses. Seeking to make sense of this violence and its aftermath, The Plunder examines the circulation of antisemitic ideas within Galicia against the political backdrop of the Habsburg state. Daniel Unowsky sees the 1898 anti-Jewish riots as evidence not of Galician backwardness and barbarity, but of a late nineteenth-century Europe reeling from economic, cultural, and political transformations wrought by mass politics, literacy, industrialization, capitalist agriculture, and government expansion. Through its nuanced analysis of the riots as a form of "exclusionary violence," this book offers new insights into the upsurge of the antisemitism that accompanied the emergence of mass politics in Europe at the turn of the twentieth century.

Book The Gates of Europe

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  • Author : Serhii Plokhy
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2017-05-30
  • ISBN : 0465093469
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book The Gates of Europe written by Serhii Plokhy and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller, this definitive history of Ukraine is “an exemplary account of Europe’s least-known large country” (Wall Street Journal). As Ukraine is embroiled in an ongoing struggle with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence, celebrated historian Serhii Plokhy explains that today’s crisis is a case of history repeating itself: the Ukrainian conflict is only the latest in a long history of turmoil over Ukraine’s sovereignty. Situated between Central Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, Ukraine has been shaped by empires that exploited the nation as a strategic gateway between East and West—from the Romans and Ottomans to the Third Reich and the Soviet Union. In The Gates of Europe, Plokhy examines Ukraine’s search for its identity through the lives of major Ukrainian historical figures, from its heroes to its conquerors. This revised edition includes new material that brings this definitive history up to the present. As Ukraine once again finds itself at the center of global attention, Plokhy brings its history to vivid life as he connects the nation’s past with its present and future.

Book The Karaites of Galicia

Download or read book The Karaites of Galicia written by Mikhail Kizilov and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on the history, ethnography, and convoluted ethnic identity of the Karaites, an ethnoreligious group in Eastern Galicia (modern Ukraine). The small community of the Karaite Jews, a non-Talmudic Turkic-speaking minority, who had been living in Eastern Europe since the late Middle Ages, developed a unique ethnographic culture and religious tradition. The book offers the first comprehensive study of the Galician Karaite community from its earliest days until today with the main emphasis placed on the period from 1772 until 1945. Especially important is the analysis of the twentieth-century dejudaization (or Turkicization) of the community, which saved the Karaites from the horrors of the Holocaust.