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Karl Emil Franzos (1848-1904), the son of a doctor, a liberal Jew,
was born in Czortkow (now Chortkiv) and grew up in Czernowitz (now
Chernivsty); both towns, until 1918 part of the Habsburg Empire. He
studied law, but did not want to work as an advocate; a position of
judge was barred to him, as a Jew, and he refused to convert in
order to advance his career. He became a journalist and edited
important literary magazines in Vienna and, after 1886, in Berlin.
But, it was as a writer of reportage, short stories and novels set
in his homeland, the area of East Galicia and the Bukovina, that he
became widely known during his lifetime. His portrayal of the
people of this backward area is not at all folksy local colour, but
is informed by his deep humanitarian concern for the oppressed and
exploited classes and nationalities. For all his knowledge of local
habits and customs which informs his novels, the main emphasis in
his work is on the individual. "Leib Weihnachtskuchen and his
Child" (first published in 1896), is set in East Galicia, nowadays
a province of the Ukraine.;It portrays a poverty-stricken Jew whose
religion is personal and deeply felt and causes the inevitable
tragedy to unfold.
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The Jews of Barnow
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