Brody – „Jerozolima austriacka” – w dziełach Josefa R. Ehrlicha i Herminii Neglerowej

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present the literary representations of Brody – called both ‘Austrian Jerusalem’ and ‘Polish Jerusalem,’ and their Jewish inhabitants, written by local physicians of Jewish origin. In 1873, Josef R. Ehrlich, a former Hasid, wrote down in German his memories of the time spent in his hometown (mid-19th century). Out of longing for lost Galicia, Herminia Naglerova depicted Brody of the 1860s in the Polish-language family saga Krauzowie i inni (1936). In both works, in the context of the city’s multiculturalism and borderlands, one can discover cultural codes, such as those related to the image of biblical Jerusalem and Jewish tradition.