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The Roundtable

"Goodbye, Eastern Europe" by Jacob Mikanowski

By Joe Donahue

Published August 10, 2023 at 11:20 AM EDT

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Book cover - "Goodbye, Eastern Europe" by Jacob Mikanoski

Jacob Mikanowski is a writer and academic. His parents were Polish immigrants to the US, and he spent his childhood between Poland and Pennsylvania. He joins us to talk about his new work "Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land."

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