Brody : a Galician border city in the long nineteenth century / by Borries Kuzmany ; translated by Nadezda Kinsky Mungersdorff.

By: Kuzmany, Borries [author.]Contributor(s): Mungersdorff, Nadezda Kinsky [translator.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: Studia Judaeoslavica ; volume 10.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]Copyright date: 2017Description: 1 online resource (461 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789004334847 (e-book)Uniform titles: Brody. English Subject(s): Borderlands -- Ukraine -- Galicia, Eastern -- History -- 19th century | Cultural pluralism -- Ukraine -- Brody (Lvivska oblast) -- History -- 19th century | Jews -- Ukraine -- Brody (Lvivska oblast) -- History -- 19th century | Haskalah -- History -- 19th century | Christians -- Ukraine -- Brody (Lvivska oblast) -- History -- 19th century | Collective memory -- Ukraine -- Brody (Lvivska oblast) -- History -- 19th century | Brody (Lvivska oblast, Ukraine) -- History -- 19th century | Brody (Lvivska oblast, Ukraine) -- Social conditions -- 19th century | Brody (Lvivska oblast, Ukraine) -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century | Brody (Lvivska oblast, Ukraine) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Brody : a Galician border city in the long nineteenth century.DDC classification: 947.7/9 LOC classification: DK508.95.B76 | K8913 2017Online resources: Click to View
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.
Scope and content: "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, Borries 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.
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First 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 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.

"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, Borries 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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