"Although southern Poland and western Ukraine are not often thought of in terms of decisive battles in World War I, the impulses that precipitated the Battle for Galicia in August 1914 -- and the unprecedented carnage that resulted -- effectively doomed the Austro-Hungarian Empi…
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 an…
"This book explains the construction of the Jewish nation in Galicia, the process by which traditional Jews modernized, and the variety of identities they adopted"--
"This book explains the construction of the Jewish nation in Galicia, the process by which traditional Jews modernized, and the variety of identities they adopted"--
