Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory

by Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer

Book Overview

In modern-day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the "Vienna of the East" under the Habsburg empire, this vibrant Jewish-German Eastern European culture vanished after World War II--yet an idealized version lives on, suspended in the memories of its dispersed people and passed down to their children like a precious and haunted heirloom. In this original blend of history and communal memoir,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520271254
• ISBN13: 9780520271258
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"