Title: The Jewish oil magnates of Galicia.
Authors: Beckerman, Miriam Dashkin,; Hirshaut, Julien.; Schatzker, Valerie.; Schatzker, Valerie.; Hirshaut, Julien.
Date: 2015
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press,
Physical description: xxx, 522 pages, 27 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC class: D
Abstract: "Combining a history of Galicia's petroleum industry with an annotated English translation of Julien Hirszhaut's Yiddish novel Di yiddishe naftmagnatn (The Jewish Oil Magnates), Schatzker traces the near-century long boom and bust cycle that place in the Austro-Hungarian province"--Book jacket.
Contents: The Jewish oil magnates : a history, 1853-1945 / by Valerie Schatzker -- The Jewish oil magnates : a novel / by Julien Hirszhaut ; translated by Miriam Dashkin Beckerman ; edited by Valerie Schatzker.
Notes: "The Jewish Oil Magnates by Julien Hirszhaut ©Vivian Hirsh. First published as Yidishe naft-magnatn, part of the Coleccion El judaism polaco, vol. 101, editor: Mark Turkow (Central Organization of Polish Jews in Argentina: Buenos Aires, 1954)"--title page verso.