TOLDOT YEHUDE BRODI: 5344-[5]703 (1584-1943) תולדות יהודי ברודי
Yerushalayim [Jerusalem]: Mosad ha-Rav Kuk, 1955. Item #42978
1st edition. Original cloth binding, small 4to, 437 pages. Includes 16 pages of plates with illustrations and portraits. 24 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates as “The History of Brody Jews 1584-1943.”
Part of a series entitled “'Arim ve-imahot be-Yisra'el: matsevat kodesh li-kehilot Yis´ra'el she-nehrevu bi-yede 'aritsim u-teme'im be-Milhemet ha-'Olam ha-aharonah” or “Cities and Motherlands of Israel: A Sacred Monument to the Communities of the People of Israel That Were Destroyed by Tyrants and Impure People in the Last World War.”
Yizkor book for the community of Brody in modern day Ukraine. Includes essays on the history, economics, and figures of Brody Jewish life from 1584-1943. Includes a fold out family tree of the prominent Landa family. Also includes excerpts of original source material like community registers, cemetery records, and archival documents. Also contains bibliographical references and index.
“After World War I, Brody became a part of the new Polish state. Its economic decline caused its population to fall to about 10,900 by 1921, of whom 7,202 were Jews. By 1939, Jews made up approximately 10,000 of its 18,000 inhabitants. Communal life flourished, but the town remained depressed economically.
Brody was incorporated into the Soviet Union in September 1939. Shortly after the German invasion in the summer of 1941, a group of 250 intellectuals was shot near the Jewish cemetery, and 5,200 Jews were deported to their deaths in Belzec. The remaining 6,500 Jews were confined in a ghetto in January 1942 and were later joined (in September 1942) by some 3,000 refugees from neighboring towns and villages. The bulk of those in the ghetto were deported to their deaths in Belzec in September and November 1942. The ghetto and the adjacent labor camp were finally liquidated in May 1943 when the surviving 2,500 Jews were deported to Majdanek. Some resistance did develop in the ghetto, and the group established contact with partisans in the surrounding forests. The Nazis attempted to destroy the Great Synagogue in 1943. They were unable to do so, and although the building is no longer usable, parts of it are still standing. No Jewish community was reconstituted after the end of the war.” (YIVO Encyclopedia).
SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Ukraine -- Brody (L'vivs'ka oblast') -- History. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Ukraine -- Brody (L'vivs'ka oblast'). Ethnic relations. Jews. OCLC: 50947884.
A bit of discoloration on the cover. Good+ Condition. (YIZ-23-26-LEXCC).
Price: $125.00