Crossing the Bridges Jedruch Eva Cristina Hoffman
Crossing the Bridges Jedruch Eva Cristina Hoffman At the turn of the twentieth century, Central and Eastern Europe was a configuration of nations dominated by three empires: Austrian, German and…
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Crossing the Bridges Jedruch Eva Cristina Hoffman
At the turn of the twentieth century, Central and Eastern Europe was a configuration of nations dominated by three empires: Austrian, German and Russian, whose borders promised to be set in concrete. Among these were Polish lands annexed by Austria in the eighteenth century, which became the Austrian province of Galicia, where Zofia Neuhoff was born in 1905 into an upper-middle-class family. The Austrian Empire was a multi-ethnic entity of countries that had been absorbed over time.
That haute bourgeoisie morphed into the central-European intelligentsia.Zofia's childhood was upended by five years of WWI which she spent in the picturesque environs of Innsbruck. Victorian manners reigned supreme, young ladies were coached to gracefully alight from the carriage and 'culture' was a magic word, socially distinguishing people who possessed it from those who did not. By 1918, the three
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