GALICIA: A MULTICULTURED LAND Edited by Christopher Hann and Paul Robert Magocsi Habsburg Galicia, an area in central Europe covering territory pres- ently ruled by Poland and Ukraine, was distinctive for its multi-ethnic character. With the unravelling of the Austro-Hungarian Empire fol- lowing the First World War, a new political map of Europe emerged, one based on the principle of the nation-state. The very concept of the nation-state, however, was problematic in culturally pluralistic regions like Galicia. The essays in this volume examine Galicia beyond the traditional paradigm of national history, in an effort to understand better the region as a place where different ethnic communities – Poles, Ukraini- ans, Jews, Austro-Germans – lived in peaceful co-existence. With the recent expansion of the European Union, increased migration, and the demise of the nation-state, a look back to see how cultural diversity was managed in a pre-nationalist age is of more than antiquarian inter- est. The contributors to this multidisciplinary volume pursue a wide range of approaches that shed fresh light on this unique region. christopher hann is a director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany. paul robert magocsi is a professor in the Department of History and in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, where he holds the chair of Ukrainian Studies. This page intentionally left blank GALICIA A Multicultured Land Edited by Chris Hann and Paul Robert Magocsi UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London © University of Toronto Press Incorporated 2005 Toronto Buffalo London Printed in Canada ISBN 0-8020-3943-X (cloth) ISBN 0-8020-3781-X (paper) Printed on acid-free paper Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Galicia : a multicultured land / edited by Chris Hann and Paul Robert Magocsi. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8020-3943-X (bound). ISBN 0-8020-3781-X (pbk.) 1. Pluralism (Social sciences) – Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) – Congresses. 2. Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) – Ethnic relations – Congresses. I. Hann, Chris II. Magocsi, Paul R. DK4600.G34G34 2005 943.896004 C2005-900644-7 University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council. University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support for its publishing activities of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP)..