Description

This book, written by a Jewish entrepreneur, historian, and political leader Ruben Fan, is devoted to the situation of the Jewish minority in Eastern Galicia during the rule of the short-lived Western Ukrainian National Republic (1918–19). Based on documentary evidence and on his own experiences and observations, Fan described the efforts of the political and community leaders of the Galician Jewish minority to establish Jewish national autonomy under Ukrainian rule in the region. Apart from shedding light on this greatly understudied topic, this book (and the scholarly introduction by Oleh Pavlyshyn) provides much information about the situation of the Jews in Galicia during the turbulent times of the Polish-Ukrainian war in Galicia of 1918–19. This book was published with the support of the Peter Jacyk Program for the Study of Modern Ukrainian History and Society at the CIUS in the publication series Ukraïna. Evropa: 1921–1939 (Ukraine. Europe: 1921–1939).