The Jewish Oil Magnates of Galicia: A History, 1853-1945 by Valerie Schatzker, A Novel by Julien Hirszhaut Holocaust History By providing a bridge to

By providing a bridge to the lost continent of Yiddish literature

The proud sons of a watchmaker

written with great flair and without a hint of pedantry

But when hope for their noble vision was destroyed by the rise of Nazism

The Jewish Oil Magnates of Galicia: A History, 1853-1945 by Valerie Schatzker, A Novel by Julien Hirszhaut Holocaust History By providing a bridge toThe near annihilation of Europe's Jews in the Second World War destroyed not only much of their history, but also knowledge of the contributions they made to the regions in which they lived. In The Jewish Oil Magnates of Galicia, Valerie Schatzker rescues the almost forgotten story of the Jews who became the "wildcatters" and oil barons in one of the world's first petroleum industries. Combining a history of Galicia's petroleum industry with an