The former Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia, a territory that nowadays forms southeast Poland and western Ukraine, was home to large numbers of Jews, and it was in this rural region that Hasidism became as common as throughout Podillya. In eastern Galicia, particularly around the modern Ukrainian town of Lviv, there was a substantial Jewish presence in everyday life.
Visa free travel to Ukraine
One of the less remarked downsides of Poland entering the European Union last year was that the Poland-Ukraine border became significantly more difficult to cross for local residents — on both sides of the border. The relatively free movement of ...