Brody

Galicia (Ukraine)

Brody, a town in eastern Galicia (today in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine), was one of the great centers of Jewish commerce and learning in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It was renowned for the Brody Kloiz, an elite house of study supported by the community's wealthy merchants where leading Galician scholars gathered; the young Yechezkel Landau (later author of the Noda BiYehudah) studied there, and the Baal Shem Tov's brother-in-law Rabbi Avraham Gershon of Kitov was among its scholars.

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