History of the Jews in the Bohemian lands / by Martin Wein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wein, Martin Joachim, 1973-

Series:

Studies in Central European Histories 61.

Studies in Central European histories ; v. 61

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Czech Republic--History--19th century.

Jews.

Jews--Czech Republic--History--20th century.

Czech Republic--Ethnic relations.

Czech Republic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

1 Introduction

2 The Great Fin-de-Siècle Crisis, 1897–1900

3 Fallout: The Impact of the Crisis, 1900–1914

4 World War i and the Founding of Czechoslovakia, 1914–1920

5 The First Republic and the Minorities, 1920–1938

6 Jewish Religion in Czechoslovakia, 1920–1938

7 Jewish Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1920–1938

8 The Munich Agreement and the Second Republic, 1938–1939

9 Nazi Germany’s “Protectorate,” 1939–1945

10 World War ii and the Czechoslovak Exile, 1938–1945

11 The Reconstitution of Czechoslovakia, the Third Republic, and the Rise of Communism, 1945–1948

12 Czechoslovakia’s Jewish Survivor Community, 1945–1948

13 Conclusions

Appendix

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-30127-5

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004301276 DOI