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History of the Jews in the Bohemian lands / by Martin Wein.
LIBRA DS135.C95 W494 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wein, Martin Joachim, 1973- author.
- Series:
- Studies in Central European histories ; v. 61.
- Studies in Central European histories ; volume 61
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Czech Republic--History--19th century.
- Jews.
- Jews--Czech Republic--History--20th century.
- Ethnic relations.
- History.
- Czech Republic--Ethnic relations.
- Czech Republic.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 339 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
- Summary:
- In History of the Jews in the Bohemian Lands, Martin Wein traces the interaction of Czechs and Jews, but also of Christian German-speakers, Slovaks, and other groups in the Bohemian lands and in Czechoslovakia throughout the first half of the twentieth century. This period saw accelerated nation-building and nation-cleansing in the context of hegemony exercised by a changing cast of great powers, namely Austria-Hungary, France, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union. The author examines Christian-Jewish and inner-Jewish relations in various periods and provinces, including in Subcarpathian Ruthenia, emphasizing interreligious alliances of Jews with Protestants, such as T.G. Masaryk, and political parties, for example a number of Social Democratic ones. The writings of Prague's Czech-German-Jewish founders of theories of nationalism, Hans Kohn, Karl W. Deutsch, and Ernest Gellner, help to interpret this history. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The great fin-de-siècle crisis, 1897-1900
- Fallout : the impact of the crisis, 1900-1914
- World War I and the founding of Czechoslovakia, 1914-1920
- The First Republic and the minorities, 1920-1938
- Jewish religion in Czechoslovakia, 1920-1938
- Jewish politics in Czechoslovakia, 1920-1938
- The Munich agreement and the second republic, 1938-1939
- Nazi Germany's 'protectorate,' 1939-1945
- World War II and the Czechoslovak exile, 1938-1945
- The reconstitution of Czechoslovakia, the Third republic, and the rise of Communism, 1945-1948
- Czechoslovakia's Jewish survivor community, 1945-1948.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9004301267
- 9789004301269
- OCLC:
- 914219698
- Publisher Number:
- 99965371848
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