Word: galicia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Burns' and Friedman's careers have been curiously intertwined. Burns was born in Eastern Galicia, then a portion of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now part of the U.S.S.R.; Friedman, whose parents emigrated from that general area, studied under Burns at Rutgers, and they now own neighboring country homes...
Died. S.Y. Agnon, 81, Israel's most honored author and only Nobel laureate; of a heart attack; in Rehovot, Israel. Born in Galicia, victim and observer of half a century of stateless limbo in Europe, Agnon wrote with the wisdom of experience in his touching chronicles of the contemporary Wandering Jew-the nameless exile returned to the European town of his youth in A Guest for the Night; Kafkaesque fables of Jews transplanted from an ancient land to modern Israel in Two Tales. A virtual unknown in the West until 1966, when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature...