A Small Town In Ukraine by Wendy Wasserstein

Retracing a family’s roots to a once-vibrant Jewish community in a Galician shtetl, this account pieces together centuries of everyday life under shifting empires and recurring violence, culminating in the community’s annihilation during the Holocaust. Drawing on archives, testimonies, and a return journey to the site, it evokes the town’s multiethnic fabric, the forces that shaped its rise and destruction, and the fragile persistence of memory in present-day Ukraine.