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Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past Kindle Edition
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Get $10 off $80 on eligible NAB Visa Cards. Enter code NAB10 at checkout. Discount by Amazon. TermsThe story of the diverse communities of Eastern Europe’s borderlands in the centuries prior to World War II
“A powerful combination of history and personal memoir . . . A richly contextual, skillfully woven historical study.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Focusing on the former province of Galicia, this book tells the story of Europe’s eastern borderlands, stretching from the Baltic to the Balkans, through the eyes of the diverse communities of migrants who settled there for centuries and were murdered or forcibly removed from the borderlands in the course of World War II and its aftermath. Omer Bartov explores the fates and hopes, dreams and disillusionment of the people who lived there, and, through the stories they told about themselves, reconstructs who they were, where they came from, and where they were heading. It was on the borderlands that the expanding great empires—German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and Ottoman—overlapped, clashed, and disintegrated. The civilization of these borderlands was a mix of multiple cultures, languages, ethnic groups, religions, and nations that similarly overlapped and clashed. The borderlands became the cradle of modernity. Looking back at it tells us where we came from.
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"Bartov's focus on Buczacz both personalizes this story and allows him to think in intimate ways about how the past might have gone differently. His fixation on the town in this project is profound."--Kate Brown, Times Literary Supplement
"[A]n erudite, highly readable book."--Anna Wylegala, H-Soz Kult
"A powerful combination of history and personal memoir. . . . A richly contextual, skillfully woven historical study."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"A rich, compelling narrative of Jewish experiences in Galicia. . . . Perhaps most poignant is Bartov's concluding focus on his family's 20th-century migration out of the region."--S. G. Jug, Choice
"This remarkable and moving book tells, on the basis of first-person accounts, the story of the emergence, development and destruction of the multi-ethnic and multi-confessional world of East Galicia. It is essential reading for all those interested in inter-ethnic conflict and in the way nationalism has come to dominate the modern world."--Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University
"A powerful and moving evocation of Jewish life and history in Galicia. The narrative elegantly intertwines history, legend, literature, and personal reminiscences, together with Bartov's powerful observations. It is a poignant commemoration of an erased civilization--the annihilated Jewish communities of the East European borderlands."--Saul Friedlander, author of Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt
"A deeply personal, learned and literary coda to Bartov's studies of Buczacz. Beautifully written and steeped in stories from Galician borderlands and Eretz Israel--a masterful achievement."--Jan T. Gross, Princeton University
"The world of Galician Jewry is, as Omer Bartov states, 'irretrievably lost.' Yet his book is more than an elegy. A work of erudition and personal revelation, it brings the diverse voices of the Galitzianers back to life."--John-Paul Himka, University of Alberta
About the Author
Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University. He is the author of Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz.
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ASIN : B0B3132376
Publisher : Yale University Press
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Publication date : 19 July 2022
Print length : 391 pages
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Omer Bartov
I was born in a kibbutz, studied in Israel and Britain, have done research in Germany, Austria, France, Poland, and Ukraine, and have been living and working in the United States since 1989. As a historian, my early research concerned the involvement of the German army in war crimes (The Eastern Front, 1941-1945; Hitler's Army), as well as total war and genocide (Murder in Our Midst, Mirrors of Destruction, Germany's War and the Holocaust), and antisemitic stereotypes (The "Jew" in Cinema). My recent publications concern Eastern Europe (Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine, Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz, and Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past). I also published two Hebrew-language novels in the 1980s; my first English-language novel, The Butterfly and the Axe, is forthcoming in 2023.
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Mary A Lalley
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book!Reviewed in the United States on 12 July 2024
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I have this author's book called Erased so I knew I would be please with this book also.
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Francis Stephan
5.0 out of 5 stars A strange, sad and wonderful bookReviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 January 2025
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Strange, because it describes regions which were quite unknomwn to me, with an extraordinary mixture of cultures and languages - which I had already found in Olga Tokarczuk 'Books of Jacob').
Sad, because these cultures, with all their richness, have tragically disappeared.
Wonderful because of the illuminating empathy Omer Bartov shows for all the persons whose history he so vividly sketches.
I did not read it in one sitting - it is not that sort of book, but I definitely enjoyed my reading.
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Sidd Vicious
5.0 out of 5 stars On the edgeReviewed in the United States on 16 January 2023
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A moving portrait of the lost world of Galicia—the interim homeland of most of today's Jewish population. Skillfully interweaving the stories of his own family with that of the rival ethnic groups of this region, the author, an outstanding historian, conveys a great deal of information to the reader, while evoking sympathy for all of the people and peoples who have inhabited this unfortunate land.
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