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Central Europe history
Central European memoir
city identity and trauma
city of lions essays
contemporary reflections on past conflicts
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cultural loss and remembrance
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East West Street
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European borderlands
exile literature
genocide
Holocaust legacy
Jewish history
Jewish history Ukraine
Jozef Wittlin memoir
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law
Lemberg
literary nonfiction Ukraine
Lviv
Lviv city
Lviv history
Lvov
Lwow
Lwow Lvov Lemberg
Mickiewicz
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Philippe Sands
Philippe Sands essay
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Polish Jewish memory
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The Ratline
twentieth century genocide and displacement
Ukraine
Ukrainian cities
Ukrainian history
vanished European world
wartime Lviv
WWII
Product details
- ISBN 9781805330011
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 25 May 2023
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Lviv, Lwów, Lvov, Lemberg. Known by a variety of names, the City of Lions is now in western Ukraine. Situated in different countries during its history, it is a city located along the fault-lines of Europe's history.
City of Lions presents two essays, written more than half a century apart - but united by one city.
Józef Wittlin's sensual and lyrical paean to his Lwów, written in exile, is a deep cry of love and pain for his city, where most people he knew have fled or been killed.
Philippe Sands' finely honed exploration of what has been lost and what remains interweaves a lawyer's love of evidence with the emotional heft of a descendant of Lviv.
With an illuminating preface by Eva Hoffman and stunning new photographs by Diana Matar, City of Lions is a powerful and melancholy evocation of central Europe in the twentieth century, with a special resonance for today's troubled continent.
Józef Wittlin (born 1896) was a major Polish poet, novelist, essayist and translator. He studied in Vienna, where he met Joseph Roth and Rainer Maria Rilke, before serving in the Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War. He published one novel and numerous collections of poetry, many of which were characterised by their strong pacifist sentiments. With the outbreak of WWII he fled to France and then to New York, where he died in 1976.
Philippe Sands is a professor of Law at University College London. He specialises in International Law and International disputes. He has also published many books, including East West Street and The Ratline.
