Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory

by Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer

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In modern-day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the "Vienna of the East" under the Habsburg empire, this vibrant Jewish-German Eastern European culture vanished after World War II--yet an idealized version lives on, suspended in the memories of its dispersed people and passed down to their children like a precious and haunted heirloom. In this original blend of history and communal memoir,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520271254

ISBN13:9780520271258

Release Date:July 2011

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:392 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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