Joseph Roth was born in 1894 in Brody, modern-day Western Ukraine, which was then part of the easternmost province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.

Joseph Roth was born in 1894 in Brody, modern-day Western Ukraine, which was then part of the easternmost province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.

Galicia. Austria-Hungary. I found it about 20 years later, in the mid-1980s, on the “Shtetl Finder” map. The village’s Yiddish name was Grodzisk (pronounced GRUD-zhisk), ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Wars Across the World: Galicia 1914 Galicia 1914 is the story of the first weeks of the Great War between Russia and Austria-Hungary. Three Austrian ...

The Battle of Galicia was decisive in the confrontation between Russia and Austria-Hungary in the initial phase of WWI. About 2 million soldiers and 3,500 artillery pieces on both sides fought it ...

March 11, 1913: Austria-Hungary and Russia Stand Down. ... The Austro-Hungarian armies in the northeastern province of Galicia would de-mobilize, ...

A scandal exposing the dark side of emigration rocked Austria-Hungary in 1889. Unsuspecting Slovaks became participants in a grand corruption scheme that unravelled in Galicia, a northern province ...

The Austro-Hungarian Disaster in Galicia. Schindler, author of the excellent Isonzo: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Great War, takes a look at the Austro-Hungarian disaster in Galicia in 1914, which ...

A number of Jews have arrived here from Hungary, ... to become naturalized in Hungary. Now that Galicia is part of Poland they have no claim to citizenship either in Poland or in Austria and are ...

November 21, 1912: Austria-Hungary Mobilizes Against Russia. The Balkan League’s triumph over the Ottoman Empire in the First Balkan War, and subsequent dismembering of Turkish territory in the ...