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28%OFFOmer Bartov - Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine - 9780691131214 - V9780691131214
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Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine

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Description for Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine Hardback. Uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace. This travelogue reveals the erasure of the Jews and their removal from public memory, a blatant act of forgetting done in the service of a aggressive Ukrainian nationalism. Num Pages: 288 pages, 60 halftones. 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; HBJD; HBTB; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 496.
In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace. What begins as a deeply personal chronicle of the Holocaust in his mother's hometown of Buchach--in former Eastern Galicia--carries him on a journey across the region and back through history. This poignant travelogue reveals the complete erasure of the Jews and their removal from public memory, a blatant act of forgetting done in the service of a fiercely aggressive Ukrainian nationalism. Bartov, a leading Holocaust scholar, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691131214
SKU
V9780691131214
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About Omer Bartov
Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University. His books include "Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation" and "Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich".

Reviews for Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine
"Bartov tells us in Erased...that his tour was prompted by a wish to rediscover the Jewish world his mother had known as a child and to establish how the region's Jews had died. But as his inquiry proceeds, its focus changed. Instead of adding to the vast corpus of Holocaust literature or celebrating the hayday of Galician Jewry, he has ... Read more

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