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

4.2 Integration at the Municipal Level: Brody’s Exceptional Position

4.3 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

8.2 Brody in Literature

8.3 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