Nadja Weck

“In our village of Werbiwzi there lived about 150 Ukrainian families, among them four Jewish ones”. Alexander Granach’s Memories of His Childhood in Eastern Galicia

This article examines Alexander Granach’s autobiographical novel Da geht ein Mensch as a source for Jewish–non-Jewish relations in the Eastern Galician village of Verbivtsi around 1900. Reading Granach’s childhood memories microhistorically and source-critically, it reconstructs...