Who still knows Galicia today? Who knows where it is - or rather, where it used to be? Because Galicia no longer exists. It has disappeared from the map. Its western part now belongs to Poland, while its eastern part belongs to Ukraine. Joseph Roth, perhaps the greatest expert on this world, along with many other writers, hailed from that region. Jewish humor was at home here, as were the Hasidic wonder-rabbis who held absolute power in the "Städtel." Martin Pollack invites the reader on a journey into this fascinating and lost world, starting in the Jewish-Ukrainian-Polish-German populated Eastern Galicia, through Bukovina - the homeland of Paul Celan and Rose Ausländer - where Romanians, Hungarians, Slovaks, Armenians, and above all, Gypsies mingled among the diverse peoples, all the way to Lviv, the capital of the Crown Land of Galicia. Contemporary photographs.