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By Marianne Hirsch,Leo Spitzer

In modern day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there's an invisible urban. referred to as Czernowitz, the "Vienna of the East" less than the Habsburg empire, this vivid Jewish-German japanese eu tradition vanished after international struggle II—yet an idealized model lives on, suspended within the thoughts of its dispersed humans and handed all the way down to their childrens like a valuable and haunted heirloom. during this unique mix of heritage and communal memoir, Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer chronicle the city's survival in own, familial, and cultural reminiscence. They locate proof of a sophisticated tradition of nostalgic lore—but additionally of oppression, shattered grants, and shadows of the Holocaust in Romania. Hirsch and Spitzer current the 1st ancient account of Jewish Czernowitz within the English language and supply a profound research of memory's echo throughout generations.

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