Brody

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For other uses, see Brody (disambiguation).

Brody (Template:Lang-uk; Template:Lang-ru; Yiddish בראָד, Brod) is a city in western Ukraine within the Lviv Oblast, 90 kilometres northeast of Lviv. As of 2004, its population is 23,239.

During July-August 1945 (World War II), Brody and the nearby areas saw the battles of a strategically important Lvov-Sandomierz Operation where the Soviet army successfully encircled and destroyed German forces.

Brody is the junction place of the Druzhba and Odessa-Brody oil pipelines. The city is located at Template:Coor dms.

1 History
- 1.1 Famous Jews
2 Nearby towns
3 References
4 External links

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History

The first mention of a settlement on the site of Brody is dated 1084.

Brody was granted Magdeburg rights and city status in 1546. At this time it was known under the name Lubich (Любич, Polish: Lubicz) that gave name to the Lubicz Coat of Arms of the owner, Stanislaw Zolkiewski (not to be confused with Lubech, Lubecz).

A crossroads and a Jewish trade center in the nineteenth century, the city is considered to be one of the shtetls. It was particularly famous for the Brodersänger or Broder singers, who were among the first to publicly perform Yiddish songs outside of Purim plays and wedding parties.

The promulgation of the May Laws, and the massive exodus of Russian Jews which was its result, took the leaders of Western Jewry complerely by surprise. Throughout 1881, hundreds of immigrants… kept arriving in Brody daily. Their arrival placed Austrian and German coreligionists in a quandary… the comfortable middle-class Jewish community of Central and Western Europe looked instinctively to the Alliance Israelite Universelle, the world's largest and most respected Jewish philanthropic agency, to bring order out of chaos, to cope with the huge influx of newcomers. (Howard M. Sachar)

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