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037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_a947.79 _bWAS/SM
100			_aWasserstein,Bernard
245			_aSMALL TOWN IN UKRAINE : Place We Came From the Place We Went Back To
250			_a1
260			_aUK _bAllen Lane _c2023/01/01
300			_g290
500			_a The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in Eastern Europe as never before. 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 flows through 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, Krakowiec is a masterpiece of recovery and insight.
505			_aThe arrest -- The three fishes -- 'The most splendid times' -- The rise of the shtetl -- The emperor's Krakowiec -- The burning shtetl -- Krakowiec to Berlin -- Berlin to Krakowiec -- Under three regimes -- 'You have nothing to worry about. You are one of my Jews' -- 'A little place -- you won't have heard of it' -- One fish -- Return to Krakowiec -- Postscript
650			_aWasserstein, Bernard -- Family
650			_aKrakovet︠s︡ʹ (Ukraine) -- Social conditions
650			_aKrakovet︠s︡ʹ (Ukraine) -- History
650			_aUkraine -- History
650			_aUkraine -- Social conditions
650			_aJewish diaspora -- 20th century
650			_aJews -- Ukraine -- Krakovet︠s︡ʹ
650			_aWasserstein, Bernard Family
942			_cLEN
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