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Remarks by Dr. Martin Pollack, “The Myth of Galicia”, presented at the The Eleventh Annual Wolodymyr Dylynsky Memorial Lecture, St. Vladimir Institute, Toronto, Canada, 9 March 2016.

2:00 There is not one myth of Galicia. There is a Polish myth, a Ukrainian myth, an Austrian myth, a Jewish myth of Galicia, etc. Each has its own meaning. Galicia was a multi-ethnic, multicultural country, with many different ethnic groups living side by side
4:00 Galicia is praised as a model of civilization. Galacia can be seen as a failed experiment
5:02 Galicia is Arcadia of failings, a poorhouse of the Habsburg monarchy. Galicia is "half Asia"
6:17 Myth of Galicia as Piedmont shared by Poles and Ukrainians alike
6:52 Galicia evokes nostalgic moments in both Poland and Ukraine
7:50 Galicia is a phenomenon of Central Europe
10:02 Writers: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (born in Lviv, Ukraine), Joseph Roth, Martin Buber, Rabbi Nahman, Bruno Schulz (born in Drohobych, Ukraine), Julian Stryjkowski (born in Strij, Ukraine)
11:00 Yuriy Andrukhovych, Taras Prokhasko, Halyna Petrosanyak (Юрій Андрухович, Тарас Прохасько, Халіна Петросаняк) all born in Ivano-Frankivsk (formerly Stanyslaviv)
12:40 Galicia had 2.6 million inhabitants, 200,000 were Jews
13:23 In 1914 Galicia had a population of 8.2 million (46% Roman Catholic, 42% Greek Catholic. 11% Jewish faith)
14:18 Galicia had some natural resources, but not many, e.g. salt, oil (oil fields in Drohobych, Boryslav)
15:50 Galicia Hell, Ivan Franko
17:04 Polish writer criticizes the Jewish oil magnates in Galicia, Ukraine
17:35 Galicia was blessed with fertile land, even black earth, but not enough to feed its inhabitants; over population, backward agricultural farming techniques, small land holdings led to endemic famine
18:24 Polish industrialist Stanisław Szczepanowski "Nędza Galicji w cyfrach i program energicznego rozwoju gospodarstwa krajowego" (1888) (Нещастя Галичини в цифрах та програма енергетичного розвитку національної ферми)
19:20 Ivan Franko was a brilliant publicist in German; Years of hunger in Galicia: 1847, 1849, 1855, 1865, 1876, 1889
20:27 Paul Robert Magocsi
21:10 Development of railroad in Galicia was very important
22:18 Galicia known throughout the Monarchy for its deeply rooted corruption, Galicia elections was known as rigged elections; alcohol and alcoholism was prevenlant in eastern Galicia, Bukovyna. The people were not drunkards, rather, much of the pay from owners was given peasants in alcohol

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