This article focuses on Karl Emil Franzos's depiction of Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians (1) in Galicia, and explores how his ideas about German culture and the Aufklarung (German Enlightenment) helped shape his stories. The article examines Franzos's two earliest major collections of stories, Aus Halb-Asien (1876) and Die Juden von Barnow (1877), in which he provided many German-speakers with their introduction to Galicia. An analysis of the depiction of the province and its peoples in these widely read books thus offers important insight into the way many Austro-Germans (and Germans beyond the Habsburg Monarchy) came to view this region and its peoples. Furthermore, a study of ...