To tell their children : Jewish communal memory in early modern Prague / Rachel L. Greenblatt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenblatt, Rachel, 1968- author.

Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Czech Republic--Prague--Historiography.

Jews.

Collective memory--Czech Republic--Prague.

Collective memory.

Prague (Czech Republic)--Historiography.

Prague (Czech Republic).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers an examination of Jewish communal memory in Prague in the century and a half stretching from its position as cosmopolitan capital of the Holy Roman Empire (1583-1611) through Catholic reform and triumphalism in the later seventeenth century, to the eve of its encounter with Enlightenment in the early eighteenth. Rachel Greenblatt approaches the subject through the lens of the community's own stories-stories recovered from close readings of a wide range of documents as well as from gravestones and other treasured objects in which Prague's Jews recorded their history. On th

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Note on Transliterations and Names; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "Metropolis of Jews' Streets" : Shapes of Prague Memory in Jewish Town and Jewish Time; 2. "Death Entered into Our Window" : Living and Dead in Cemetery and Synagogue; 3. "A Remembrance for Me and My Descendants" : Autobiographical Writing and Familial Commemoration; 4. "Established the Day" : Authorship, Communal Authority, and Local Traditions; 5. "That a Future Generation Will Know" : Narrating History in Book, Tale, and Song; 6. "In the Language People Understand" : Print and Manuscript

Vernacular and Sacred Women and Men; Conclusion: ""No Need to Name It All"" : Toward a History of Forgetting; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804788816

0804788812

OCLC:

871780699