Author

Publication

2007 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey

Language

English

Word Count

58,000 words, Guess

Page Count

232 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • LCCDS135.U4 B37 2007
  • LCCDS135.U4B37 2007

Description

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, discovers that to make sense of the heartbreaking events of the war, he must first grapple with the complex interethnic relationships and conflicts that have existed there for centuries.

Subjects

Topics

JewsHistoryInfluenceJews, ukraineEthnic relationsEthnology, ukraineEurope, ethnic relations

Other Editions

  • Erased: vanishing traces of Jewish Galicia in present-day UkrainePrinceton University Press2007-01-01

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