RE: [Cz-L] Jews have never lived in Brody

Christian...

Congratulations, that's an amazing posting at your Vanished World Blog, regardless wether it's on-topic or off-topic (moderator's decision):

http://vanishedworld.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/jews-have-never-lived-in-brody/

In May 2011 I visited Brody too and I think you'll not wonder at the parallels between our postings:

http://hauster.blogspot.de/2011/05/auf-den-spuren-judischer-vergangenheit.html

The historical destinies of Galicia and Bukovina are inextricably linked with each other. The emigration from Galicia to Bukovina - my ancestors came from Rohatyn in Galicia - at the end of the 19th century and beginning of 20th century was a history of both, a poverty migration and a emancipation movement. The "Galicia And Bukovina Map In Hebrew" from the year 1878 at our ehpes.com Blog is just an indication:

http://ehpes.com/blog1/2011/02/08/galicia-and-bukovina-map-in-hebrew/

One more clue we get from the website Jewish Galicia & Bukovina:

http://jgaliciabukovina.net/

Following the links "Great Heritage" + "Historical Background", we discover two most interesting articles on this subject by:

• Piotr Wrobel (http://tinyurl.com/d7ybzto)
• Fred Stambrook (http://tinyurl.com/caqftdu)

>From Piotr Wrobel's article headlined "The Jews of Galicia under Austrian-Polish Rule, 1867-1918." we learn:

"In 1867, the Jews of Austria received full civil emancipation as individual citizens. They had not been accorded the status of a "nationality" (Volksstamm), but were considered only as a religious group (Religionsgemeinschaft). Consequently, Jews were not granted even the limited national rights enjoyed by the recognized "nationalities". Yiddish did not receive official approval for use in schools and public life. Israeliten should seek their places among the non-Jewish "nationalities", and consider themselves Poles or Germans of the Mosaic faith. Majority "nationalities" initiated a campaign to persuade Jews to join their ranks and a Jewish response in one direction or another frequently provoked anti-Semitic reactions. Only in Bukovina, where no nationality had a majority, Jews were recognized as a de facto "nationality". [...] In 1900 Jews made up 72.1% of all residents in Brody, 57.3% in Buczacz, 57.1% in Rawa Ruska (Rava Rus'ka), 52.7% in Sanok, 51.3% in Stanislawow (Stanislaviv), 51.2% in Gorlice, 50.8% in Kolomyja (Kolomyia). [...] Emigration belonged to the most important phenomena leading to the decrease of the Jewish population in Galicia. The bad economic situation, especially in industry and in the cities, and the fact that opportunities for the Jews to enhance their social status were extremely limited, drove many Galician Jews from their homeland. [...] Numerous Galician Jews did not leave the Dual Monarchy but moved from Galicia to other Habsburg lands."

Thank you so much Christian for your outstanding contributions! 

Edgar Hauster • MacBook
Lent • The Netherlands

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> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 21:12:55 +0100
> From: cyberorange_at_gmx.de
> Subject: [Cz-L] Jews have never lived in Brody
> To: Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
>
> Dear Bruce, dear Jerome,
>
> is Brody to off-topic? Yes, it's Galicia and not Bukovina. On the other hand it's a typical example how history is treated in contemporary Ukraine. You decide. I'm not insultad if you decide against posting.
>
> Christian
>
> [Since so many list members have their root also in Galicia (MY GF was born in Podhajce but as
> a young adult, lived and worked in Cz) we have always accepted posts about Galicia. See also
> my recent post (NYT article about the 'camps' -- Photo of the Brody ghetto). Edgar has Brody
> album in the Photos section. Jerome]
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> a new blog post at Vanished World: Brody was once one of the most Jewish cities of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The writer Joseph Roth, the most famous native son of the city, described with melancholy the decay of the monarchy. The ruins of a synagogue and an impressive cemetery still recall Jewish Brody. But in the local museum, the reinterpretation of history is already completed: Jews have never lived in Brody.
>
> http://vanishedworld.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/jews-have-never-lived-in-brody/
>
> Shortened link: http://bit.ly/Znh56X
>
> Christian
>
>

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