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228 ReviewsTwo of the diaries chosen for this collection are by Jewish academics at theUniversity of Lviv: the anthropologist Shmuel Czortkower and the legal expertM. Allerhand. With terse, precise language, these professors describe the entrance ofthe Germans into Lviv and the destruction of the Jewish community. Two otherselections, both written by officials of the Lviv Judenrat (German-sponsored JewishCouncil), provide a fascinating contrast as these Jewish functionaries of the Nazisattempt to steer a course between resistance and collaboration, with little success. Atheme which runs through all the selections is the antagonism between Poles,Ukrainians, and Jews during the German occupation. In her introduction, Guttermancites the bitter Hebrew limerick of the day:For the Jews—famine (ra'av),For the Poles—gold (zahav, from Jewish blood money),For the Ukrainians—militia (militzia, i.e., collaboration),And for all their bones—Galicia (Galitzia).Gutterman has added several appendices to this collection, including some poorreproductions of photographs and Nazi decrees in the original. One nagging problemwith the work is the difficulty of transliteration; she has solved this to some degreewith a liberal use of the Polish alphabet. Ukrainian names are transliterated into Polishrather than Cyrillic, however, and first names are rarely transliterated at all.Despite this minor technical difficulty, this work represents a significant contributionto the scholarship on the German occupation in Galicia, a topic which has beenreceiving renewed interest in recentyears.Henry AbramsonUniversity of TorontoLVOV GHETTO DIARY. By David Kahane. Translated by JerzyMichalowicz. Foreword by Erich Goldhagen. Amherst, Mass.:University of Massachusetts Press, 1990. x, 162 pp. $24.95.The Nazi murder of Western Ukrainian Jewry was nearly total: Aharon Weiss hascalculated that only 2 percent survived in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia (17,000 of870,000 Jews), and Philip Friedman has estimated that the survival rate in the city ofLviv was closer to one percent. 1 Rabbi David Kahane and his wife and child wereamong the few who lived to tell this terrible tale of destruction. Like dozens of others,the Kahane family owes its existence to the humanitarian aid of the saintlyMetropolitan Andrei Sheptyts'kyi, head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, who1Aharon Weiss, "Jewish-Ukrainian Relations in Western Ukraine during the Holocaust," inUkrainian-Jewish Relations in Historical Perspective, ed. Peter Potichnyj and Howard Aster(Edmonton, 1988), p. 409; Philip Friedman, "The Destruction of the Jews of Lwów," in Roadsto Extinction: Essays on the Holocaust, ed. Ada Friedman (New York, 1980), pp. 244-45,317.