A Small Town in Ukraine The place we came from, the place we went back to

Name: A Small Town in Ukraine
Author: Bernard Wasserstein

Auteur: Bernard Wasserstein

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Auteur: Bernard Wasserstein

9780241609224
23 februari 2023
320 pagina's

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'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe Sands Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In this book he recounts its dramatic and traumatic history. 'I want to observe and understand how some of the great forces that determined the shape of our times affected ordinary people.' The result is an exceptional, often moving book. Wasserstein traces the arc of history across centuries of religious and political conflict, as armies of Cossacks, Turks, Swedes and Muscovites rampaged through the region. In the Age of Enlightenment, the Polish magnate Ignacy Cetner built his palace at Krakowiec and, with his vivacious daughter, Princess Anna, created an arcadia of refinement and serenity. Under the Habsburg emperors after 1772, Krakowiec developed into a typical shtetl, with a jostling population of Poles, Ukrainians and Jews. In 1914, disaster struck. 'Seven years of terror and carnage' left a legacy of ferocious national antagonisms. During the Second World War the Jews were murdered in circumstances harrowingly described by Wasserstein. After the war the Poles were expelled and the town dwindled into a border outpost. Today, the storm of history once again rains down on Krakowiec as hordes of refugees flee for their lives from Ukraine to Poland. At the beginning and end of the book we encounter Wasserstein's own family, especially his grandfather Berl. In their lives and the many others Wasserstein has rediscovered, the people of Krakowiec become a prism through which we can feel the shocking immediacy of history. Original in conception and brilliantly achieved, A Small Town in Ukraine is a masterpiece of recovery and insight.

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Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 23 februari 2023
Aantal pagina's: 320

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Hoofdauteur: Bernard Wasserstein
Hoofduitgeverij: Allen Lane

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Product breedte: 162 mm
Product hoogte: 31 mm
Product lengte: 240 mm
Verpakking breedte: 162 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 31 mm
Verpakking lengte: 240 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 575 g

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Categorieën: Biografieën & Waargebeurd

Geschiedenis

Historisch

Europa

Sociale & Culturele geschiedenis

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Taal: Engels
Periode: 20e eeuw
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Land: Oekraine

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