"The verge of the 19th and the 20th centuries: the flow of many thousands of labor migrants and immigrants willing to pursue the American dream goes from Galicia across the ocean. "Rusyn"/Ukrainians, Poles, and Jews flee from deprivations in the poorest crown land of Habsburg monarchy hoping for mercy of the overseas Emperor of America. They are transferred to the country of opportunities by numerous agents, traffickers, hardballs, and organized criminals. Martin Pollack narrates the social catastrophe of the "ordinary" refugees, which even after a hundred years clings at Europe and Ukraine." "Pollack intends to portray the complex collision between the backward province and the global world. In his tolerant manner, he is merciless to the two classic forms of nostalgia: the Galician shtetl and America, the land of opportunities." Timothy Snyder Translated from German by Lyuba-Paraskevia Strynadyuk. In Ukrainian. Type of the edition: hard cover, dust cover
Format: 130x210 mm Number of pages: 272 Publisher: Knyhy-XXI, Chernivtsi Contents:
- Spokusheni emihratsijeju
- Nebazhani chuzhyntsi
- Al‘bert Ballin
- Torhivlja delikatnym tovarom
- Janhelotvorytsi
- Halyts‘ki zlydni u tsyfrakh
- Jevreys‘ki vtikachi u Brodakh
- Osventsim, Aushvits, Oshpitsyn
- Korabel‘-pryvyd "F.Missler"
- Kolektyvnyy protses
- Spakovano sorok jashchykiv
- Pljumazhi i pera
- Nimets‘kyy "amerykanets‘"
- Dzhonstaunivs‘ke zhakhittja
- Oshukantsi ta myslyvtsi na seljan
- Torhivlja ljud‘my
- Hory konjachykh trupiv
- Tikayte zvidsy het‘
- Pishokhodtsi
- Brazyl‘s‘ka lykhomanka
- Polacas
- Shkidlyvi elementy
- Grine Kusine
- Pomyysja u Ballina
- Moskovs‘kyy ray
- Khrest u Brutovtse
- Pisljamova
Publisher: Knyhy-XXI Catalogue number: ISBN 9786176141112 Year: 2015
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