| Description |
1 online resource (461 pages) |
| Series |
Studia Judaeoslavica Ser. ; v. 10 |
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Studia Judaeoslavica Ser
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| Contents |
Preface; List of Figures, Tables and Maps; List of Abbreviations and Specific Terms; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 The Economic Rise and Fall of the City of Brody; Chapter 2 The Success Story (1630-1815); 2.1 The Rise of Brody before the First Partition of Poland; 2.2 Brody as a Supraregional Trade Center after 1772; Chapter 3 Stagnation and Crisis (1815-1914); 3.1 Demographic and Economic Loss of Significance; 3.2 Missing Out on Modernization; Part 2 An Extraordinary Galician Small Town; Chapter 4 Austria's Most Jewish City; 4.1 Integration into the Habsburg Empire |
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4.2 Integration at the Municipal Level: Brody's Exceptional Position4.3 The Significance of Brody for Eastern European Jewry; Chapter 5 The Christian Minorities; 5.1 Social Groups; 5.2 National Movements; Chapter 6 Religion-Language-Nation. The School: A Multicultural Lebenswelt; 6.1 Brody as a Regional Center of Education; 6.2 Which Language for Brody's Schools?; 6.3 A Microcosm of Ethno-Confessional Groups in Cohabitation; Chapter 7 Border City; 7.1 Brody as a Refugee Destination; 7.2 Communication; Part 3 Perceptions of Brody in History; Chapter 8 Placing Brody; 8.1 Much-visited Brody |
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8.2 Brody in Literature8.3 Mental Mapping of Brody: The Reception of Travel Reports and Literature; Chapter 9 Places of Memory in and of Brody; 9.1 Memorial Books as Mental Lieux de mémoire; 9.2 Real Places: A Promenade; Chapter 10 Conclusion: Brody-A Story of Failed Success?; Appendix; Bibliography; Index of Persons; Index of Place Names; Thematic Index |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Borderlands -- Ukraine -- Galicia, Eastern -- History -- 19th century
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Borderlands
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Ukraine -- Eastern Galicia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004334847 |
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900433484X |
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