Brody
Name in English:
Brody
Name in Ukrainian:
Броди
Name in Polish:
Brody
Name in Yiddish:
בראָד
Administrative District :
Lviv region
Coordinates:
50.083141°N 25.147651°E
Administrative History:
Brody, a town, the district center, in the region of Lviv, about 90 km northeast of it, 23
northwest of Pidkamin, 10 south-west of Radzyvyliv; in a boggy plain near the mouth of
the Boldurka, a tributary of the Styr River. "Brod" in Slavic languages means "ford". The
town is mentioned in the Ruthenian Chronicles for the year 1084. Chartered as a private
town called Lubitz in 1584. Jews were apparently there from the start and are mentioned
in documents going back to 1588. Also called the Jerusalem of Austria or of Galicia.
Among Poland’s finest communities until the partition. Served as a Torah center with a
renowned klojz, and as a center for business, secular education and Yiddish folk music.
A Hebrew press operated there, and the Hebrew newspaper "Ivri Anohi" was published
there.
Items relevant to the community
Title | Type of item | Years |
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Aus dem "Pinax des alten Judenfriedhofes in Brody", 1699-1831 | Bibliography | 1920 |
נר תמיד – יזכור לברודי: ספר זכרון לקהילת ברודי וסביבתה | Bibliography | 1994 |
Die Stellung der Brodyer Juden im internationalen Handel in der zweiten Halfte des XVIII. Jahrhunderts | Bibliography | 1930 |
Brody: A Galician Border City in the Long Nineteenth Century(Studia Judaeoslavica, v. 1), translated by Nadežda Kinsky Müngersdorf | Bibliography | 2017 |
ברודי (במסגרת 'התחרותנו הספרותית: 'עיר מולדתי ומושבי בעבר ובהווה') | Bibliography | 1937 |
Between Haskalah and Zionism: The Example of the Jewish Community of Brody | Bibliography | 2017 |
תולדות יהודי ברודי, ה'שמ"ד-תש"ג (1584 - 1943) (כרך ששי, ברודי, בסדרה: מימון הכהן יהודה לייב (ע'), ערים ואמהות בישראל: מצבת קודש לק | Bibliography | 1955 |
Brody, Leipzig, Lyon: Les relations commerciales européennes et leurs acteurs (1780-1820) | Bibliography | 2002 |
על שלוש-עשרה מצבות עתיקות בבית הקברות בברודי | Bibliography | 1978 |
קטעים מפנקס ברודי | Bibliography | 1922 |