Herminia Naglerowa’s "Krauzowie i inni".

Naglerowa’s novel of 1936, a kind of family saga, describes the fate of the Krauze family, members of the Polish bourgeoisie of the Galician city Bory, a cipher for the real city of Brody. The “Others”, the Krauzes deal with, representatives of different ethnic groups, Ukrainians and Jews, are described in a pejorative way, due to the author’s Polish centred view. Ukrainian women are sexually attractive, but primitive, Ukrainian men are stupid, lazy and brutal. Jews are shown in a positive light, if they are assimilated to the Polish culture, but the large masses of poor Jewry are shaped as fanatic and backward. In this novel the Poles turn out to be the dominant layer of the city’s population, they stand for economic growth, public wealth and political progress.