Mapping Jewish loyalties in interwar Slovakia / Rebekah Klein-Pejšová.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klein-Pejšová, Rebekah, 1972- author.

Series:

Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)

Modern Jewish Experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Slovakia--History--20th century.

Jews.

Jews--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.

Slovakia--Ethnic relations.

Slovakia.

Czechoslovakia--Ethnic relations.

Czechoslovakia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the aftermath of World War I, the largely Hungarian-speaking Jews in Slovakia faced the challenge of reorienting their political loyalties from defeated Hungary to newly established Czechoslovakia. Rebekah Klein-Pejšová examines the challenges Slovak Jews faced as government officials, demographers, and police investigators continuously tested their loyalty. Focusing on ""Jewish nationality"" as a category of national identity, Klein-Pejšová shows how Jews recast themselves as loyal citizens of Czechoslovakia. Mapping Jewish Loyalties in Interwar Slovakia traces how the interwar state saw a

Contents:

Seek the "right path": the Jews of Slovakia in remapped post-World War I East Central Europe

From Hungary to Czechoslovakia: Jewish transition to the consolidating Czechoslovak state

Nationality is an internal conviction: Jewish nationality and Czechoslovak state building

Contested loyalty: proving Slovak Jewish loyalty to Czechoslovakia

Between the nationalities: statist Slovak Jews, separatist Slovaks, and the Revisionist threat

Mapping Jewish loyalties.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253015624

0253015626

OCLC:

904437872