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

"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 histo...

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Superior document:Studia Judaeoslavica, volume 10
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]
2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
German
Series:Studia Judaeoslavica ; volume 10.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (461 pages) :; illustrations, maps.
Notes: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.
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Table of 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.