The town is Krakowiec, forty miles from Lviv. In a powerful combination of memoir, family history and scholarship, Wasserstein creates a lens through which the particular becomes exemplar.
A Small Town in Ukraine: the Place We Came From, the Place We Came Back To
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£25.00
Edition:Hardback978024160922423/02/2023
Categories: 02. New Year 2023: History, History, New Year 2023
Tags: Memoir, Ukraine
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