Lemberg

The biography of a city. Once part of the Habsburg Empire, Lviv was known as the "Jerusalem of Europe," where Poles, Jews, Ukrainians, and Germans lived together. Notable artists and scholars shaped a modernity that rivaled that of Berlin and Vienna. Then, like so many Central European cities, Lviv lost almost all of its inhabitants due to war, the Holocaust, and displacement - and with it, its memory. Seventy years later, amid the Ukraine crisis, Lutz C. Kleveman seeks to uncover the buried past of the city. What he discovers and brilliantly narrates is nothing less than the history of Europe to this day. "Lutz C. Kleveman vividly and very personally reveals the history of this fascinating city, which has had so many pasts and has been a stage for so many cultures, dreams, and tragedies. An immense reading pleasure." Philipp Blom.