Next year in Marienbad : the lost worlds of Jewish spa culture / Mirjam Zadoff ; translated by William Templer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Triendl-Zadoff, Mirjam.

Series:

Jewish culture and contexts

Standardized Title:

Nächstes Jahr in Marienbad. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Health resorts--Czech Republic--Cheb Region--History.

Health resorts.

Jews--Czech Republic--Karlovy Vary--Social life and customs--19th century.

Jews.

Jews--Czech Republic--Mariánské Lázně--Social life and customs--19th century.

Jews--Czech Republic--Františkovy Lázně--Social life and customs--19th century.

Jews--Czech Republic--Karlovy Vary--Social life and customs--20th century.

Jews--Czech Republic--Mariánské Lázně--Social life and customs--20th century.

Jews--Czech Republic--Františkovy Lázně--Social life and customs--20th century.

Manners and customs.

History.

Czech Republic--Františkovy Lázně.

Czech Republic--Mariánské Lázně.

Czech Republic--Karlovy Vary.

Czech Republic--Cheb Region.

Physical Description:

x, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012]

Language Note:

Translation of the German title Nächstes Jahr in Marienbad published in 2007.

Contents:

Part I Be'era Shel Miryam

Chapter 1 A Letter 13

Chapter 2 Consuming Places 17

Chapter 3 In a Large Garden of Modernity 32

Chapter 4 Bourgeois Experiential Spaces of Worry and Concern 49

Part II Beit Dimyoni

Chapter 5 A Conversation 69

Chapter 6 Miscounters 76

Chapter 7 Encounters 106

Part III Odradek

Chapter 8 A Story 137

Chapter 9 The City in the Hills 141

Chapter 10 Warmbod Grotesques 157

Part IV Jutopia

Chapter 11 A Map 179

Chapter 12 Traveling to Bohemia 182

Chapter 13 To Bohemia and Beyond 197.

Notes:

Based on a doctoral thesis submitted to Universitä̈t München.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780812244663

0812244664

OCLC:

785870963