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Sat 05 May 2007In search of a lost familyNon-FictionDaniel Mendelsohn, son of liberal New York Jews, spent his childhood listening to his maternal grandfather, Abraham Jäger, telling extraordinary stories about Bolechow, the town of Ukrainians, Poles and Jews in Galicia, a province of the Austro-Hungarian empire where the family, before emigrating to the US, had lived for centuries.Of course, by the time Jäger was telling his tales it was the 1970s, Bolechow, now Bolekhiv, was in the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine, and all its Jews were gone.