Ghosts of Home
Author | : Marianne Hirsch |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2011-07-26 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780520271258 |
ISBN-13 | : 0520271254 |
Rating | : 4/5 (254 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Ghosts of Home by : Marianne Hirsch
Download or read book Ghosts of Home written by Marianne Hirsch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the 'Vienna of the East' under the Habsburg empire, this Jewish-German Eastern European culture vanished after WWII - yet an idealized version lives on. This book chronicles the city's survival in personal, familial, and cultural memory.