- Summary
- "An urban biography, Brody : A Galician Border City in the Long Nineteenth Century reconciles 150 years of the town's socioeconomic history with its cultural memory. The first comprehensive study of this city under Habsburg-Austrian rule, Börries Kuzmany advises against reading urban history solely through the national lens. Besides exploring Brody's extraordinary ethno-confessional structure--Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians--Kuzmany examines the interrelation between the city's geographical location at the imperial border, its standing as a key commercial hub in East-Central Europe, and its position as a major springboard for the dissemination of the Haskalah in Galicia and the Russian Empire. After delving into the contradictory perceptions of Brody in travelogues, fiction and memory books, Kuzmany uses contemporary and historical photographs to provide an illustrated walking tour of this now Ukrainian town"--Publisher description.
- Uniform Title
- Brody. English
- Series
- Studia Judaeoslavica ; volume 10
Studia Judaeoslavica ; v. 10.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Kuzmany, Börries, author.
- Published
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
- Locale
- Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
Ukraine
Galicia, Eastern
Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ)
Brody
- Contents
-
Part 1. The economic rise and fall of the town of Brody
The success story (1630-1815)
Stagnation and crisis (1815-1914)
Part 2. An extraordinary Galician small town
Austria's most Jewish city
The Christian minorities
Religion-language-nation school : a multicultural Lebenswelt
Border city
Part 3. Perceptions of Brody in history
Placing Brody
Places of memory in and of Brody
Conclusion: Brody : a story of failed success?
Appendix
Index of place names
Index of persons
Thematic index.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Müngersdorff, Nadežda Kinsky, translator.
- Notes
-
Originally published in German in 2011, based on a revised version of the author's doctoral dissertation, with title Brody : eine galizische Grenzstadt im langen 19. Jahrhundert.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-419) and indexes.
Part 1. The economic rise and fall of the town of Brody -- The success story (1630-1815) -- Stagnation and crisis (1815-1914) -- Part 2. An extraordinary Galician small town -- Austria's most Jewish city -- The Christian minorities -- Religion-language-nation school : a multicultural Lebenswelt -- Border city -- Part 3. Perceptions of Brody in history -- Placing Brody -- Places of memory in and of Brody -- Conclusion: Brody : a story of failed success? -- Appendix -- Index of place names -- Index of persons -- Thematic index.
