The Jewish Oil Magnates of Galicia: A History, 1853-1945 by Valerie Schatzker, A Novel by Julien Hirszhaut Holocaust History of the surmountability of difference

of the surmountability of difference and of a restless city and its inhabitants

The proud sons of a watchmaker

written with great flair and without a hint of pedantry

Drawing from a wealth of archival sources including the travelogues of thousands of American tourists who smuggled aid to Russian Jews

“More deli than deity” writer Nancy Kalikow Maxwell poses many such questions in eight chapters—“Worrying

The Jewish Oil Magnates of Galicia: A History, 1853-1945 by Valerie Schatzker, A Novel by Julien Hirszhaut Holocaust History of the surmountability of differenceThe near annihilation of Europe's Jews in the Second World War destroyed not only much of their history, but also knowledge of the contributions they made to the regions in which they lived. In The Jewish Oil Magnates of Galicia, Valerie Schatzker rescues the almost forgotten story of the Jews who became the "wildcatters" and oil barons in one of the world's first petroleum industries. Combining a history of Galicia's petroleum industry with an