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In the Fall of 1918 it became clear the Polish-Ukrainian ethnic
borderlands would become a battlefield for the two nations. Both
wanted to incorporate the disputed territory. On November 1st 1918,
Ukrainian conspirators managed a successful military and political
coup, taking control of Lviv with hardly any bloodshed. Several
hours afterwards, Polish underground forces already began preparing
a counterattack. A few days later, front lines stretched across the
city. The fighting concluded on November 22nd with a Ukrainian
retreat and an ethnic cleansing of the local Jewish population. The
events that took place in Lviv in November 1918 to this day remain
at the epicenter of Polish-Ukrainian conflict. The book tackles the
themes of this unrest and its symptoms, from the 1920s to present
day.
This book is a reflection on the Jewish presence in two European
capitals, Warsaw and Berlin, in the first half of the 20th century.
It was inspired by the works of Polish-Jewish, Yiddish and
German-Jewish authors, as well as by the connections between urban
spaces and the formation of different varieties of modern Jewish
identity. The spotlight is cast on images preserved in literary
works, namely those concerning separate Jewish neighborhoods and
the sphere of cultural interethnic contacts. By attempting to
restore the presence of Jewish inhabitants of both cities,
destroyed by the Holocaust, it may become possible to see how the
imagined communities of the time were created and preserved in the
texts, even if, in reality, the metropolises were transformed into
necropolises.
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