In modern-day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city.Known as Czernowitz, the \"Vienna of the East\" under the Habsburg empire, this vibrant Jewish-German Eastern European culture vanished after World War II-yet an idealized version lives on, suspended in the memories of its dispersed people and passed down to their children like a precious and haunted heirloom.In this original blend of history and communal memoir, Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer chronicle the city\'s survival in personal, familial, and cultural memory.They find evidence of a cosmopolitan culture of nostalgic lore-but also of oppression, shattered promises, and shadows of the Holocaust in Romania.Hirsch and Spitzer present the first historical account of Jewish Czernowitz in the English language and offer a profound analysis of memory\'s echo across generations.