Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past

The story of the diverse communities of Eastern Europe’s borderlands in the centuries prior to World War II

“A powerful combination of history and personal memoir . . . A richly contextual, skillfully woven historical study.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Focusing on the former province of Galicia, this book tells the story of Europe’s eastern borderlands, stretching from the Baltic to the Balkans, through the eyes of the diverse communities of migrants who settled there for centuries a...