The author reflects on the animosity between her great-grandmother (from a Litvak background) and her grandmother (from a Galician background) within their Jewish family, which stemmed from cultural and culinary differences symbolized by the "Gefilte Fish Line" - sweet versus savory gefilte fish preferences.

Joseph Roth, a Jewish writer born in Brody in 1894, is portrayed as the chronicler of a lost world in the town's historical context.

In a recent episode of the PBS show Finding Your Roots, singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette discovers her Jewish heritage for the first time at the age of 28.

"The Butterfly and the Axe" by Omer Bartov is a novel based on the author's own family history in Galicia during the Holocaust.

Benjamin Balint's book, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History," explores the life and death of Bruno Schulz, a writer, artist, and dreamer who was murdered in the ghetto of Drohobycz, Galicia during World War II.

The episode discusses the early life of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizenshk, exploring how a person from the Tiktin area became a prominent leader of Chassidism in Galicia and delving into his journey of becoming a Chassid.

Avraham ben Yizhak, also known as Abraham Sonne, was a renowned Jewish poet who introduced European modernism into Hebrew verse with his 12 influential poems.