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Brody : a Galician Border City in the Long Nineteenth Century / by Börries Kuzmany ; translated by Nadežda Kinsky Müngersdorff.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kuzmany, Börries, author.
Contributor:
Mungersdorff, Kinsky Nadezda, translator.
Series:
Studia Judaeoslavica ; v. 10.
Studia Judaeoslavica ; volume 10
Standardized Title:
Brody. English
Language:
English
German
Subjects (All):
Collective memory.
History.
Christians.
Haskalah.
Jews.
Cultural pluralism.
Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)--History--19th century.
Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine).
Borderlands--Ukraine--Galicia, Eastern--History--19th century.
Borderlands.
Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)--Social conditions--19th century.
Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)--Commerce--History--19th century.
Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)--Ethnic relations--History--19th century.
Cultural pluralism--Ukraine--Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ)--History--19th century.
Jews--Ukraine--Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ)--History--19th century.
Haskalah--History--19th century.
Christians--Ukraine--Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ)--History--19th century.
Collective memory--Ukraine--Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ)--History--19th century.
Commerce.
Ethnic relations.
Social conditions.
Ukraine--Eastern Galicia.
Ukraine--Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ).
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
xviii, 443 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Place of Publication:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
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.
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.
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.
Other Format:
Online version: Kuzmany, Börries, author. Brody.
ISBN:
9789004288010
9004288015
OCLC:
963797882
Publisher Number:
9789004288010

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