[Signed by Translator] Bernard Wasserstein, *A Small Town in Ukraine: The Story of a Jewish Family and the Famine of 1933*

*This is a signed copy by translator Jun Kudo.

Between nations, between histories.

The history of a border town in Ukraine and the history of a Jewish family intertwine.

Habsburg rule, the Russian Revolution, antisemitism, the Holocaust, the German-Soviet War, the Russia-Ukraine War... From the past to the present, this historical account and family chronicle, full of rediscoveries and insights, is exactly what is needed now to understand the complex history of Eastern Europe in all its complexity.

The Galician region, which spans present-day Western Ukraine, has historically been dominated and tossed about by various countries, including Austria, Poland, Germany, and the Soviet Union.

The setting of this book is Krakovets, a small town in the Galician region. The author is a prominent British historian whose ancestors were Jews from this town. While objectively and vividly recounting the history of this town as a historian, he also traces the arduous history of his family, as if mourning his ancestors who had deep ties to this town. From the Habsburg era, when various ethnic groups coexisted despite discrimination against Jews, to the chaotic period when it was ravaged by numerous wars between nations, to the modern era torn by Ukrainian and Polish nationalism, to the reign of terror by the Nazis and Soviets, and to the present day—

The Galician region, a "between" of nations. And the Jewish people, a "between" of ethnic groups. —From the perspective of these two "betweens," the history that the people of Galicia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe have endured is illuminated.

(From the publisher's website)