To Galicia. About Hasids, Hutsuls, Poles and Ruthenians. An imaginary journey through the vanished world of Eastern Galicia

"To Galicia" (1984) is Martin Pollack's first book, in which the writer dispels the Austrian "sugar" myth about the former crown land of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His imaginary journey takes him through Eastern Galicia - landscapes of hardship and poverty, where oil magnates and miracle-working rabbis grotesquely coexist with poor Jewish shtetls, where Ruthenians, Poles, Romanians, Hutsuls, Armenians, Karaites, Germans, and Roma barely survive in a corrupt and illiterate land, where a multilingual cultural mosaic is simultaneously created and beautiful literature is written.