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SUMMARY:The Jewish Oil Magnates of Galicia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Valerie Schatzker\nTemple Sinai: 210 Wilson Ave. Toronto\, ON\nTime: 8:00 pm\nDoors Open: 7:30 pm \nThe near-annihilation of Europe’s Jews in the Second World War destroyed not only much of their history\, but also knowledge of the contributions they made to the regions in which they lived. In The Jewish Oil Magnates of Galicia\, Valerie Schatzker rescues the almost-forgotten story of the Jews who became the “wildcatters” and oil barons in one of the world’s first petroleum industries. \nCombining 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 took place in the Austro-Hungarian province – from the perilous\, back-breaking work of digging for oil by hand\, to the introduction of the Canadian drill that increased production. Galician Jews worked in the industry from its beginning to its final days under German occupation. They were pioneers in exploration\, refining\, and marketing\, and in the first part of the twentieth century were prominent among its technical\, scientific\, and managerial leaders. After the First World War\, as borders shifted and minorities clashed\, oil resources declined. During the Second World War\, Nazi occupiers\, using Jewish slave labourers\, squeezed out the last barrels for their war effort.
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SUMMARY:The Jewish Oil Magnates of Galicia
DESCRIPTION:Valerie Schatzker – Galician Jews were key players in both owning and managing the development of the oil fields but were also the peasant workers who laboriously extracted the resource employing very dangerous and primitive technologies. \nWed. Oct. 25\, 2017\nTemple Sinai 8:00 pm\ndoors open at 7:30 pm
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