Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

SLA199H. Invisible Kingdom, Imaginary Space. Imaginary Galicia. Fall 2024

Class meets on Tuesdays from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM.

Books that must be purchased:

You may purchase these books at the University of Toronto bookstore, online, used, or anywhere else they're available. You may purchase an electronic text (Kindle, etc.). Do not delay purchasing books, if you start late, you may not get them in time.

• Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Love. The Legacy of Cain. Trans Michael O'Pecko. Riverside: Ariadne Press, 2003. Amazon
• Bruno Schulz. Collected Stories. Trans. Madeline Levine. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2018. Amazon
• S. Y. Agnon. A Simple Story. Trans. Hillel Halkin. Amazon
• Joseph Roth. Collected Stories. Trans. Michael Hofmann Amazon
• Stanislaw Wyspianski. The Wedding. Trans. Noel Clark. London: Oberon, 1998. Amazon, Publisher
• Yuri Vynnychuk. Tango of Death. Trans. Michael M. Naydan and Olha Tytarenko. New York: Spuyten Duyvil, 2019. ISBN 978-1-949966-33-6. Amazon, Publisher

Readings available online:

• Norman Davies. "Galicia: Kingdom of the Naked and Starving (1773–1918)." Excerpt from Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe, New York: Penguin Books, 2011, pp. 449–81.
• Ivan Franko. Boa Constrictor.
• Ivan Franko. “The Involuntary Hero” and “The Cuthroats” from Winds of Change. Trans. Roma Franko. Toronto: Language Lanterns, 2006.
• Karl Emil Franzos. The Jews of Barnow: Stories. W. M. Macdowall. Originally published New York: D. Appleton, 1883. Gutenberg project ebook.
• Mykhailo Kotsiubyns'kyi. "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors."
• Stanislaw Lem.Highcastle: A Remembrance. Trans. Michael Kandel.
• Andrzej Stasiuk. Tales of Galicia. Trans. Margarita Nafpaktitis. Prague: Twisted Spoon, 2003.
• Vasyl Stefanyk. The Stone Cross.
• Johann Georg Kohl. “Lemberg” from his Austria

• Aleksander Fredro. Revenge, Virgin's Vows, The Annuity: Three Plays. Trans. Noel Clark. Bath: Absolute Classics, 1993.
• Joseph Roth. Radetsky March in its entirety, other novels
• S. Y. Agnon. Other novels
• Ivan Franko. Other works
• Yuri Andrukhovych. My Final Territory. Trans. Mark Andryczyk & Michael Naydan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018.Amazon UTPress
• Ivan Franko. Fateful Crossroads. Trans. Roma Franko. Toronto: Language Lanterns, 2006. ISBN-10: 0973598247
• Larry Wolf. The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. Robarts: DK4600 .G344 W65 2010X http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7116282.
• On Wyspianski's The Wedding: Ann Komaromi, "Wyspianski's Wesele: Poised on the Border," Theatre Journal 54.2 (2002) 187-202. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/tj.2002.0047
• Bohdan Budurowycz. "Galicia in the Work of Bruno Schulz." Canadian Slavonic Papers 28.4 (1986): 359-68. Web. 4 June 2018.
• Ivan L. Rudnytsky. “The Ukrainians in Galicia under Austrian Rule” in his Essays in Modern Ukrainian History. CIUS Press: Edmonton, 1987. pp. 315–52.

• Magocsi, Paul R. Galicia: a historical survey and bibliographic guide. Robarts: Z2514 .G2 M35 http://go.utlib.ca/cat/2824938.
• Lviv: A City in the Crosscurrents of Culture, ed. John Czaplicka, Cambridge, MA: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2005. (Also Vol 24 (2000) Harvard Ukrainian Studies.)
• Martin Pollack, "The Myth of Galicia", Video. The Eleventh Annual Volodymyr Dylynsky Memorial Lecture, St. Vladimir Institute, Toronto, Canada, 9 March 2016.
• Readings from Myth of Galicia, catalog of the exhibit at the Vienna Museum
• The Research Project on Galician and Bukovinian Jewry
• The Jews of Galicia — A History, Prof. Joshua Shanes. A series of 10 lectures, 45 minutes each.
• Lesson 1: "Polish Partition and the Birth of Galicia"
• Lesson 2 "Hasidism and Traditional Jewish Society"
• Lesson 3: "Haskalah: The Jewish Enlightenment"
• Lesson 4: "Emancipation"
• Lesson 5: "Modern Jewish Politics: Jewish Nationalism and its Opponents"
• Lesson 6: Jewish Life After Emancipation: Economic Developments and Antisemitism
• Lesson 7: "First World War and its Aftermath"
• Lesson 8: "Interwar Soviet Experience"
• Lesson 9: "Independent Poland"
• Lesson 10: "Holocaust: Destruction and Afterlife"
• Map of the Kingdom of Galicia, 1914
• Map of Galicia, 1897
• Kuzmany, Börries, Brody: A Galician Border City in the Long Nineteenth Century, trans. Nadežda K. Müngersdorff, Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2017.
• Jewish Life in Lviv. 1939 video. In Yiddish (with English subtitles) or in English (The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive)
• Jewish Life in Cracow. In English (The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive)
• Bruno Schulz website

• Eva Hoffman. Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. Robarts: DS135 .P62 B694 1997X http://go.utlib.ca/cat/1377941
• Jewish Galicia and Bukovina (website)
• Gesher Galicia (website)
• Omer Bartov. Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. Imprint: Yale University Press
• Lviv as a Jewish City